Screenwriters Association

The Screenwriters Association (formerly Film Writers' Association) is a labour union based in Mumbai, India.[1] Members are authors, novelists, playwrights, and journalists who work in films, TV, and digital media.

Screenwriters Association
Full nameScreenwriters Association
Founded1954 (1954)
AffiliationInternational Affiliation of Writers Guilds
Key people
  • Robin Bhatt, President
  • Rajesh Dubey, Vice President
  • Jyoti Kapoor, Vice President
  • Sunil Salgia, General Secretary
  • Dhananjay Kumar, Treasurer
Office locationMumbai, India
CountryIndia
Websitewww.swaindia.org

The Screenwriters Association is an autonomous body, for the writers and by the writers.[2]

On September 27, 2020 the Screenwriters Association held its first ever award ceremony, for writers, by writers. [3] The SWA Awards 2020 announced winners in 15 categories, out of 16 categories at an online award ceremony. The list of winners are as below: [4]

TV SHOWS
1. TV Comedy- Best Story: Nitin Keswani for Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah
2. TV Comedy- Best Dialogues: Bhavna vyas for Baavle Utaavle
3. TV Comedy- Best Screenplay: Aatish Kapadia for Bhakharwadi (TV series)
4. TV Drama- Best Story: No Award
5. TV Drama- Best Dialogues: Preeti Mamgain for Mere Dad Ki Dulhan
6. TV Drama- Best Screenplay: Kartick Sitaraman for Mere Dad Ki Dulhan

WEB SERIES
7. Web Series- Best Original Drama: Richie Mehta & Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh for Delhi Crime
8. Web Series-Best Original Comedy: Devika Bhagat & Ishita Moitra for Four More Shots Please!
9. Web Series- Best Adaptation: Dhruv Narang, Nihit Bhave, Pooja Tolani and Varun Grover (writer) for Sacred Games (TV series) - Season2

LYRICS
10. TV/Web- Best Lyrics: Zama Habib for the song Ek Chup Tum, Ek Chup Main from the show Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein
11. Feature Films-Best Lyrics: Manoj Muntashir for the song Teri Mitti from the film Kesari (2019 film)

FEATURE FILMS
12. Best Gender Sensitive Script: Ivan Ayr & Kislay for Soni
13. Feature Films- Best Debut Writer: Ivan Ayr & Kislay for Soni (film)
14. Feature Films- Best Dialogues: Vijay Maurya for Gully Boy
15. Feature Films- Best Story: Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki for Article 15 (film)
16. Feature Films- Best Screenplay: Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki for Article 15

The online award ceremony also included stand-up comic acts by Aatish Kapadia and Varun Grover (writer), an illusion act by mentalist Akshay Laxman, a lyrical jugalbandi between lyricists Shellee & Hussain Hydari and two musical performances - one by Rekha Bhardwaj on a song written by Gulzar, and a song composed and sung by Vishal Bhardwaj. [5]


The Jury members for the various jury panels were eminent screenwriters themselves:
Feature Films Jury : Ashok Mishra, Atul Tiwari, Juhi Chaturvedi, Saket Chaudhary, Urmi Juvekar, Vijay Krishna Acharya and Vinay Shukla [6]

Gender Sensitive Jury : Apurva Asrani, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari and Leena Yadav [7]

Television Jury : Anand Mahendroo, Ajai Sinha, Kamlesh Pandey, Liliput Faruqui, Manjul Sinha, Purnendu Shekhar and Sanjay Upadhyay [8]

Lyrics Jury : Amit Khanna, Ila Arun, Kausar Munir, Mayur Puri and Panchhi Jalonvi [9]

Web Jury: Jury for Web Series - Original Comedy: Reshu Nath, Shiv Subrahmanyam and Juhi Shekhar
Jury for Web Series - Original Drama: Suhail Tatari, Ruchi Narain and Sweksha Bhagat
Jury for Web Series - Adaptation: Anuraadha Tewari, Anuya Jakatdar and Ketki Pandit [10]

The SWA Awards Committee 2020 was headed by SWA President Robin Bhatt, Gen Secretary Sunil Salgia and EC member Anjum Rajabali. The Chairperson was Sridhar Rangayan [11] and Convener was Richa Singh Gautam.

References
  1. Chaurasia, Ankita (15 January 2020). "Screenwriter Association drafts a standard release form to help keep things fair and square for writers". Mumbai Mirror/.
  2. Sahoo, Sudanshu (31 March 2020). "India: Screenwriters Association: The Most Efficient Copyright Protection For Script Writers". mondaq.com/.
  3. "SWA Awards 2020: 'Article 15', 'Soni', 'Taarak Mehta' Honoured". thequint.com//. 28 September 2020.
  4. "SWA Awards: Article 15, Netflix film Soni, Mere Dad Ki Dulhan win top honours". firstpost.com. 29 September 2020.
  5. "Big wins for Article 15, Soni and Gully Boy". thedailyeye.info. 29 September 2020.
  6. "Screenwriters Association announces nominees for Feature Films category of SWA Awards 2020". indoremirror.in/. 19 September 2020.
  7. "LGBTQ films will become part of mainstream when we stop othering them: Apurva Asrani". PTI. 16 September 2020.
  8. "Screenwriters Association announces nominees for TV Shows category of SWA Awards 2020". indiantelevision.com. 23 September 2020.
  9. "Screen Writer's Association announces nominees for Best Lyricists for SWA Awards 2020". cinestaan.com. 10 September 2020.
  10. "Screen Writer's Association announces nominees for Web Series category of SWA awards-2020". indiantelevision.com. 10 September 2020.
  11. "Screen Writer's Association unveils jury for Lyrics category of SWA awards-2020". indiantelevision.com. 9 September 2020.
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