A short film produced by Qatar resident Gopakumar G Nair (Gopan) has won a honourable mention from the Cannes World Film Festival 2021 in the Best First Time Filmmaker Short category. Dog Brothers is the debut film by Gopan under his banner Gr8 AV Productions. He is a senior cameraman with Qatar Television since 2004. The short, written and directed by Viswan, has already won an award at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival 2021 and made the official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival 2021.