Actor Suhasini to head state film awards jury

Thiruvananthapuram: The government has appointed the

jury

to finalize the

state film awards

for 2020, under the chairmanship of actor and director

Suhasini Manirathnam

.

This is the first award screening committee formed after the government instituted a two-tier screening system in the wake of an increased number of entries being sent for state film awards. National-award winning Kannada film director P Sheshadri and Malayalam director Bhadran will be the chairmen of the primary screening committees. Both of them will be members in the final award committee too.

The final award jury also consists of cinematographer C K Muraleedharan, music director Mohan Sithara, sound engineer M Harikumar, screenplay writer and film critic N Sasidharan. National-award winning editor Suresh Pai, lyricist Madhu Vasudevan, critic E P Rajagopalan, cinematographer Shehnad Jalal, writer Rekha Raj and lyricist Shibu Chakravarthi are also members of the preliminary committee. In the primary jury, there are eight members and in the final jury, there are seven members.

Writer and critic P K Rajasekharan is the jury chairman of the film literature section that also includes film critic Muraleedharan Tharayil, Bindu Menon and C Ajoy (member secretary). There are 80 entries for the awards this year, of which four are children’s films. The screenings began on Tuesday.