thiruvananthapuram jury chairman tv chandran made two interesting remarks on the side lines of kerala state film awards declaration we havent looked at faces we have only watched films he told media personsthe jury which had several parallel filmmakers bucked the pattern followed for years tossing away predictable choices and picking up unheard ones there is this usual pattern of recognising one or two parallel film makers and then distributing remaining awards to popular figures the focus was on appreciating movies which approached the medium seriously and attempted to experiment artistically said dr biju a jury memberthe jury paid attention to meritorious works that were part of mainstream like take off and thondimuthalum driksakshiyum but with restraint lijo jose pellissery was lauded as the best director for his film eamayau but angamaly diaries which had earlier bagged critical and popular acclaim never figured in jurys scheme of thingsthe prestigious awards went for lesser or scarcely known entities the jury did not even have to debate on ottamuri velicham if we hadnt unearthed this film here it would have been lost forever it has been the case for so many independent filmmakers we didnt want that to happen said manoj kana another jury memberof the 37 awards 27 have been won by debutantes more than half of the total films watched by the jury were made by debutant directorsthe selection to iffk hardly mattered to this jury of the two films featured in competition section of iffk the jury found worth in only film sanju surendrans aedan sexy durga which did not make it to the competition section of iffk but won the top honour at rotterdam film festival was shunned by the juryit is learnt that sexy durga did not even make it to the list of 23 movies which were filtered from 110 movies the film was omitted in the first round itself the jury was unanimous in that decision said a jury member