Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image
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The Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) is a public trust
that organizes annual International Film Festival in Mumbai known as the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF). The festival completed ten years in the year 2008.
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal
is the chairman of the trust.
MAMI aims to foster a climate of good cinema. It holds that appreciation of good cinema, stripped off all the limiting labels of art and commercial, can only come about through exposure to the best of films the world has to offer. The festival is designed to be the first step in that direction.
MAMI Board of Trustees clarified in their Mission Statement in 1997: "We feel it is the need of the hour to disseminate and inculcate good cinema among Indian audiences. The only way to achieve this is to celebrate cinema by hosting an international film festival in Mumbai (birth place of Indian Cinema), India’s film and entertainment capital. Mumbai Academy of Moving Image is committed to start Mumbai’s first independent international film festival organized by practicing film makers."
The other Trustees of MAMI are:
in the city. The 11th Mumbai Film Festival 2009 was held from 29 October to 5 November 2009. The best feature film was awarded to White Lightin (UK) while La Pivillina (Austria-Italy) won the Jury Grand Prize.
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Public trust
The concept of the public trust relates back to the origins of democratic government and its seminal idea that within the public lies the true power and future of a society; therefore, whatever trust the public places in its officials must be respected....
that organizes annual International Film Festival in Mumbai known as the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF). The festival completed ten years in the year 2008.
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...
is the chairman of the trust.
Beginnings
In 1997, a group of film industry stalwarts headed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee founded the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image as a not for profit trust. The main intention was to organize an annual international film festival of which the film industry and the country can be proud of.MAMI aims to foster a climate of good cinema. It holds that appreciation of good cinema, stripped off all the limiting labels of art and commercial, can only come about through exposure to the best of films the world has to offer. The festival is designed to be the first step in that direction.
MAMI Board of Trustees clarified in their Mission Statement in 1997: "We feel it is the need of the hour to disseminate and inculcate good cinema among Indian audiences. The only way to achieve this is to celebrate cinema by hosting an international film festival in Mumbai (birth place of Indian Cinema), India’s film and entertainment capital. Mumbai Academy of Moving Image is committed to start Mumbai’s first independent international film festival organized by practicing film makers."
Notable participants
MAMI is chaired by Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal.The other Trustees of MAMI are:
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11th Mumbai Film Festival
Originally scheduled in February 2008, the festival was rescheduled after 26/11 terror attacks2008 Mumbai attacks
The 2008 Mumbai attacks were more than 10 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, by Islamist attackers who came from Pakistan...
in the city. The 11th Mumbai Film Festival 2009 was held from 29 October to 5 November 2009. The best feature film was awarded to White Lightin (UK) while La Pivillina (Austria-Italy) won the Jury Grand Prize.
12th Mumbai Film Festival
The 12th Mumbai Film Festival was held from from 21–28 October 2010. It included a retrospective on Japanese cinemaCinema of Japan
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