The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is back with its on-ground edition, aiming to become the biggest South Asian Film Festival.
30 Oct 2023
The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is back with its on-ground edition, aiming to become the biggest South Asian Film Festival.
The festival will focus on fostering new cinematic voices, promoting collaborations and business opportunities, and showcasing world cinema in Mumbai. The closing night film will be Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, which had a successful world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. Priscilla is based on the memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon and explores the unseen side of Elvis and Priscilla's courtship and marriage.
The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is back with its on-ground edition after three years, complete with a new vision to host the world's biggest and most prestigious South Asian Film Festival. The festival is focused on building an ecosystem for new cinematic voices, facilitating the exchange of ideas, collaborations, and business opportunities, while bringing the best of world cinema to Mumbai.
The Festival (October 27 to November 5) has announced that this year's Closing Night film will be 's Priscilla. Written and directed by Coppola Priscilla is based on the 1985 memoir and Me written by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon. The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Mare of Easttown, Bad Times at the El Royale) as Priscilla, Jacob Elordi (Euphoria, The Kissing Booth) as , and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession, Bottoms, The Lost Daughter).
The film will receive its South Asia Premiere on Friday November 3, at the PVR Maison in BKC, following a successful World Premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where the film received a seven minute standing ovation. Cailee Spaeny was also awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her portrayal of Priscilla.
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.
Philippe Le Sourd is the director of photography on the film, Stacey Battat has designed the costumes, Sarah Flack is the editor and Tamara Deverell is the production designer. The film was produced by Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company, Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, and Youree Henley. The film was financed by Fremantle Group.
Anu Rangachar, Head of International Programme at Jio MAMI, says, “In Priscilla, Sofia Coppola's storytelling is bold in exploration and delicate in expression. Based on a self-expressed story of love, Cailee Spaeny in the titular role, shines like a diamond in this nuanced tale about teenage dreams and toxic love . We are delighted to announce Priscilla as the closing film at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.”
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