NEW DELHI, June 23 (UNI) Indian documentary filmmaker S Krishnaswamy has been conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American International Film and Video Festival.
Dr Krishnaswamy is the first-ever filmmaker from the Afro-Asian region to be selected for the award.
The festival paid tributes to Dr Krishnaswamy, who did not attend the awards ceremony, through a video presentation.
An Indian official from the consulate general in San Francisco received the award on his behalf.
Dr Krishnaswamy is recovering from a coronary bypass surgery conducted in the first week of May.
The Lifetime Achievement Award has so far been conferred on only eight internationally renowned producers in the past 38 years of the festival in Los Angeles.
The best known documentaries of Dr Krishnaswamy include 'Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi,' a four-hour film on Indian history distributed by Warner Bros and 'Reality Behind Religion,' which includes interviews with the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Swami Ranganathananda and Acharya Tulsi.
His 60-minute film, 'Who Loses When India Wins?', which offers suggestions for electoral reforms in India, is ready for release.
