The Nevada International Film Festival (NIFF) is an international film festival granting film awards to

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. In 2011, '' Life! Camera Action...'' directed by Rohit Gupta received the Platinum Reel award for the Best Narrative feature film. In 2012, ''

Bringing King to China ''Bringing King to China'' is a 2011 documentary film by Kevin McKiernan. The cinematographers include three-time Oscar-winner Haskell Wexler. The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter, a young American woman's year-lon ...

'' directed by

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received the Grand Jury Prize, the festival's most highest honor. Among the 10 winners of the 2012 Platinum Reel Award were Mumtaz Hussain (''Art=(love)2'') and Manan Singh Katohora (''9 Eleven''). Vijay Vemuri took a prize for his short film ''Artificial'' and Himesh Bhorgo won for his short ''Jurisdiction''; while Abhinav Tiwari took one of 10 Golden Reel Awards for ''OASS'', a drama about sex trafficking in Nepal. Filmmaker Sezen Kayhan won a Special Jury Award in 2013, for his short film ''Erik Zamanı'' (Time of The Plums). It shared the award with

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Roozbeh Dadvand’s ''Mossaddegh'', which tells of Iran’s former Prime Minister Mohammed Mossaddegh. ''

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'', starring

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, won Best Documentary in 2012.

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