The Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) on
Tuesday evening shared insights and discussed the upcoming 14th Mumbai
Film Festival, a Reliance Entertainment initiative; to be
held from October 18 - October 25, 2012.
Filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Sudhir Mishra have
joined the MAMI board as trustees and will be actively involved in all
spheres of the festival along with the other trustees, as it was announced in a packed auditorium that the festival will move to the south of Mumbai, with
NCPA and INOX as main festival venues.
To celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema, MFF is
introducing a Competition section for Indian films with a cumulative
cash reward of Rupees 15 Lakh (USD 31,000 approx). Apart from, Indian cinema MFF will pay tribute to Italian Cinema through a special
selection of films in the Celebration Of Italian Cinema. The package includes films from all major directors and
also restored films like Maciste (1915) and Inferno (1911).
MFF in collaboration with the Embassy of France in
India and Unifrance will unveil the new
edition of "Rendezvous with French Cinema".
The dignitaries present at the Board meeting included MAMI, Chairman,
Mr. Shyam Benegal, MAMI, Trustees, Mr. Ramesh Sippy, Mr. Sudhir
Mishra, Mr. Amit Khanna,
Reliance Entertainment, CEO, Mr. Sanjeev Lamba and Festival Director Mr.
Srinivasan Narayanan.