{"id":123143,"date":"2020-05-01T01:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=123143"},"modified":"2020-05-01T01:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:15:33","slug":"chi-lupo-from-arunachal-wins-best-documentary-award-at-dada-saheb-phalke-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/chi-lupo-from-arunachal-wins-best-documentary-award-at-dada-saheb-phalke-film-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi Lupo from Arunachal wins best documentary award at Dada Saheb Phalke film fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Staff Reporter ]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 30:<\/strong> Chi Lupo, a short documentary depicting the custom of honey hunting among the Sherdukpen community of West Kameng district, has won the best documentary award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival-2020.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/honey-hunter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123146 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/honey-hunter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>The awards in various categories were announced on Thursday in Delhi, as the nominees could not travel there to attend the ceremony.<br \/>\nChi (honey) Lupo (hunter) has been made by independent filmmaker Kezang D Thongdok.<br \/>\nIn the Sherdukpen community, honey is used for preparing delicacies, and is valued for its medicinal properties.<br \/>\nThe documentary was shot through June and July 2019, during the summer honey hunting expedition. Such expeditions are also made during October-November.<br \/>\nThongdok hails from Rupa in West Kameng district. He has earlier worked as a crewmember in the making of several regional films. Chi Lupo &#8211; The Shertukpen Honey Hunters is his debut short documentary.<br \/>\nThongdok has directed more than 30 regional video albums, and worked as an assistant director in the making of several docudramas for Doordarshan Kendra, Itanagar.<br \/>\nHe also worked as an actor and editor in the Sherdukpen movie Besmeh, which won the Prag Cine Award-2015.<br \/>\nThongdok is currently working on his next documentary, on KhikSaba, an unexplored festival of the Sherdukpen tribe, and on a short film, Baan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Staff Reporter ] ITANAGAR, Apr 30: Chi Lupo, a short documentary depicting the custom of honey hunting among the Sherdukpen community of West Kameng district, has won the best documentary award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival-2020. The awards in various categories were announced on Thursday in Delhi, as the nominees could not travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}