Creative Hut student awards
Student awards,39 festival wins and selections
Festival wins and selections for documentaries and short films made by Creative Hut Academy students at Indian and international festivals, and the television awards won by our alumni. College awards and world records are on the Awards page.
Creative Hut students and director Abin Alex receive an award on stage.
Featured alumni
Our students win, and the festivals say so
Alumni of the Gurukul, awarded at national and international festivals and at television awards. Each record below is complete.
Cinematographer
Gessal Sebastian
2026
Best Cinematographer, Asianet Television Awards, for Mazhathorum Moombe
2025
Best Cinematographer, Media City Television Award
2025
Prem Nazir Suhruthu Samathi Award, for contribution to visual craft
Documentary director
Agrah S Deth
2
wins
4
selections
2025
Best Non-Fiction Documentary, Vadodara Film & Design Festival (VFDF)
2025
Panasian Film Festival
2025
National Documentary Short Film Festival
2025
Indo Independent Film Festival
2026
Almamoura Festival
2027
MORPHÉ Film Festival
Documentary director
John Thomas
3
selections
2025
National Documentary Short Film Festival, 11th edition
2026
Almamoura Festival
2027
MORPHÉ Film Festival
Documentary director
Ajay Narayanan K
3
selections
2026
18th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, Campus Films
2026
Almamoura Festival
2027
MORPHÉ Film Festival
Student films
Student films at festivals
Documentaries and short films made by Creative Hut students, awarded and selected at festivals. Each title links to its page in Student work.
Water Flows, But... Not for All
Abel Benjamin Samuel
Selection
Almamoura Festival
2026
Selection
MORPHÉ Film Festival
2027
Urayal | Art or God?
Bomma Saichand Goud and Alka Mohan
Selection
Almamoura Festival
2026
Selection
MORPHÉ Film Festival
2027
Verified. My India. My Vote.
Directed by Abin Alex, cinematography by Patil Jyotiraditya Chandrashekhar, Manchala Karthik Vineel Kumar and Nandhana P B
Selection
Almamoura Festival
2026
Selection
MORPHÉ Film Festival
2027
Pancha Gramalu
Sesetty Shanmukh Sri Uday Mani
Selection
Almamoura Festival
2026
Selection
MORPHÉ Film Festival
2027
Damascus Call
Directed by Abin Alex, cinematography by Patil Jyotiraditya Chandrashekhar
Winner
Tyrannus Angel Awards × LA AI Film Summit
2026
College awards
The college holds 18 world records.
World records, press rankings and the honours of Creative Hut Academy and its founder, with the festival wins of Rising Embers.
18
World records
12
Rising Embers wins
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