The popular Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is returning after a three-year COVID and logistics-related absence with a hub, a refreshed executive team and a host of plans.
25 October 2023
The popular Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is returning after a three-year COVID and logistics-related absence with a hub, a refreshed executive team and a host of plans.
Hollywood and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas continues as festival chair, while media veteran and former Variety contributor Anupama Chopra remains festival director and independent producer Anu Rangachar (Locarno title "Rapture") heads up the international program. Alongside them is a new team including Deepti DCunha, who previously advised Cannes and Film Bazaar, as artistic director; former Lionsgate India content head Maitreyee Dasgupta as co-director; producer Anupama Bose (Rotterdam title "Joram") as artistic director, Jio MAMI year round program; and Abhishek Kumar as head of marketing, PR and sponsorship.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's media conglomerate Jio remains the title sponsor of the festival, which is operated by the the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI). The new, glittering Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre will be the festival hub. The venue is home to three performing arts spaces: the 2,000-seater Grand Theatre, the 250-seater Studio Theatre and the 125-seater Cube. PVR Inox, India's largest multiplex chain, remains the primary screening venue partner.
"We've come back not as a small festival - in fact, we are coming back bigger and with an expanded vision, because I think we realized that people have been waiting for a film festival," DCunha told Variety, adding that after a couple of digital editions, filmmakers were thirsting to show their work on the big screen. Several films selected for the festival
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