KOLKATA: Mayabious Art, a home-grown animation and digital media company from Kolkata, has been conferred with the fourth Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2014 Award to celebrate the excellence in cinema. 

The Jury Award for ‘Best Ad Film’ was given to the advertisement created for plywood major Sylvan Ply. The award was received by Mayabious Art co-founder and CEO Akhil Bandhu Paul.

More than 1500 film entries from across the globe had taken part and hundreds of filmmakers from India and abroad attended the festival.

Paul after receiving the award said: “West Bengal is rich in creative talent and Mayabious endeavors to keep pace with the market demand and focuses on a mix of technology, knowledge and local skills to turn ideas into reality.”