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  • Security firm hired to prevent piracy during MAMI fest

    Security firm hired to prevent piracy during MAMI fest

    MUMBAI: Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) has engaged the services of a security services firm to prevent film piracy during the 14th Mumbai Film Festival.

    The securities services firm AA Khan and Associates, owned by former Mumbai anti-terrorist squad chief A A Khan, will put in place tenable contingency measure to protect the interests of film production companies, independent producers, film distributors and cinema operators participating in the film festival from the ever looming threat of piracy.

    Says Khan, “Over the last decade piracy, in all forms, has become quite rampant across the globe and it is important that people, organisations, policy makers as well as keepers of the law work together to eradicate this problem that affects the social and economical ethos of our country and the world.”

    While the Government and other concomitant agencies have made progress in developing response procedures to copyright infringement, the notoriety of film piracy in India still manages to discourage filmmakers from submitting their films at film festivals.

    The hiring of the security services firm is aimed at combating piracy at source.

  • MAMI fest to screen films by renowned directors of the world

    MAMI fest to screen films by renowned directors of the world

    MUMBAI: The 14th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival, an initiative by MAMI, that will run from 18 to 25 October will include films by some of the most rewarded directors from all over the world which will only enhance the cinematic experience this year. There has been considerable buzz about the films that will be showcased at the Fest.

    Of the many films that will be screened, some of the noted movies that will be shown are: On the Road, Walter Salles, the provocative story of Sal Paradise, a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl Marylou.

    Rust and Bone, by Jacques Audiard, a story about Ali who finds himself with a five year-old child on his hands. Sam is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister in Antibes where things improve immediately.

    Blancanieves (Snow White), by Pablo Berger a stunning gothic melodrama by the popular take by the Grimm Brothers.

  • Next MAMI Fest in South Mumbai; NCPA and Inox are venues

    MUMBAI: The Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) has revealed what transpired at a meeting yesterday. The trustees met and discussed the upcoming 14th Mumbai Film Festival, a Reliance Entertainment initiative.

    Film dignitaries present at the meeting included MAMI chairman Shyam Benegal, trustees – Ramesh Sippy, Sudhir Mishra, Ashutosh Gowariker, Amol Palekar, Amit Khanna, Reliance Entertainment CEO Sanjeev Lamba and festival director Srinivasan Narayanan.

    New additions to the board are filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Sudhir Mishra.

    After a growing demand from cinema enthusiasts to accommodate them in larger number, it was decided to move the festival to South Mumbai, with NCPA and Inox as the festival venues.

    To celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema, the Mumbai Film Festival has decided to introduce a ‘Competition‘ section for Indian films with a cumulative cash reward of Rs 1.5 million (USD 31,000 approx).

    Other special events are also being chalked out to celebrate the 100 years of Indian Cinema during the course of the Festival.

    Through a special selection of films in the Celebration of Italian Cinema, the Festival will pay tribute to Italian Cinema by way of a special selection of films. The package will include films from all major directors and also restored films like ‘Maciste‘ (1915) and ‘Inferno‘ (1911). The section is to be organised in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in India and Mr. Italo Spinelli.

    Following last year‘s roaring response for the French films, the new edition of “Rendezvous with French Cinema” will be hosted by the 14th Mumbai Film Festival in collaboration with the Embassy of France in India and Unifrance.

    The Mumbai Film Festival will be held from 18 to 25 October.