The National Awards are considered as one of the country’s oldest and prominent award ceremonies in India. The prestigious awards were first presented in the year 1954. From 1973, the awards are administrated by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals. The awards are presented to the films that are directed across India promoting Indian art and culture. Each year the government appoints a national panel to select the winning entry. And the winners for the year are awarded by the President of India in New Delhi. The ‘Best Non-Feature Film Direction’ award is one of the sub-categories of Non-Feature Film award and was introduced in 1999. The award was bagged by Arun Vasant Khopkar in 2001 for the film ‘Rasikpriya’.

National Award Winners For Best Non-Feature Film Direction Are:

Year
Directior
Film
Language
2005
Ganesh Shankar Gaikwad
Voices Across the Oceans
Hindi/English
2004
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2003
Anjali Panjabi
A Few Things I Know About Her
English
2002
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2001
Arun Vasant Khopkar
Rasikpriya
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2000
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1999
-
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