The certificate of the nomination for the NFDC National Award was handed over in a ceremony held on Saturday in Kathmandu. In the ceremony, the artists selected for the nomination in 17 different categories were given the certificate of nomination by Minister Mindndra Rijal and FDB chielf Raj Kumar Rai.

The third edition of NFDC Film Award is scheduled to be held on September 12. In addition to making the announcement of the date of the award ceremony, the minister Rijal had also unveiled two songs of upcoming movie ‘Thamel dot Com’.

This year, very few movies had participated in the award screening. In anohter award ceremony, NEFTA only 56 movies out of 87 movies released in the year 2071, were considered for the award (NFDC however hasn’t revealed the number.)

NFCD Award was previously scheduled to be held on Bhadra 5, the new date September 12 is 3 weeks after the previous schedule. The top 5 movies in the nomination are ‘November Rain’ (watch ‘November Rain’ here), ‘Jeryy’ (watch ‘Jerryy’ here), ‘Kabaddi’ (watch ‘Kabaddi’ here), ‘Talakjung VS Tulke’ and ‘Nai Nabhannu La 3’. The movie ‘November Rain’ has bagged the most nominations this year.

In the program, actors including Karishma Manandhar, Namrata Shrestha, Garima Pant, Deepa Shree Niraula, Aryan Sigdel, Deepak Raj Giri and others were present.