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  • 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.

  • MSOs have to now start trial runs on STBs: Trai

    MSOs have to now start trial runs on STBs: Trai

    MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed multi-system operators (MSOs) to start trial runs on homes where they have seeded the digital set-top boxes (STBs) for conditional access system (Cas).

    “We have reports of 10 MSOs having conducted the trials for testing out their digital systems under Cas. The deadline starts from today. We want to be sure that there are no glitches in implementation of CAS and the transition is smooth,” said Trai chairman Nripendra Misra while addressing a consumer forum meet today in Mumbai.

    The progress is satisfactory and let there be no doubt in the minds of stakeholders that CAS is going to be implemented on the due date, he added. “Digitisation is a way forward and consumers falling under the Cas notified areas should start ordering for STBs from now so that there is no crowding towards the end.”

    With effect from 1 January, pay channels in the notified areas of South Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata can be viewed only through the STBs.

    The cable and broadcast regulator will encourage various modes of digitalisation, Misra said. “We want to discuss on the road ahead for digitalisation. Besides mandated CAS, we are looking at voluntary spread of digitalisation across all technologies. We will be having a serious of discussions from 27 January-June.”

    Clarifying on the issue of taxes, Misra said it did not fall under the purview of Trai. “VAT will be on the deposits and rental schemes of the STBs,” he added.