Festival Data:

• Established: 1997
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 4500
• Media Attendance: 250
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 2500
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 225
• Total Number of Films Screened: 140
• Total Screenings: 160
• # of Shorts Screened: 30
• # of Features Screened: 110
• Accreditations: FIAPF, FIPRESCI

• Competitive
• Retrospective
• Catalog
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars
• Workshops

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Festival Description:

The Mumbai Film Festival is organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI). Recognised by FIAPF, this is the only International Film Festival in India organised by an independent body of practicing film professionals. The Mumbai Film Festival provides total prizes of $200,000 USD in its competitive sections.

The Festival program is divided into five sections:

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors is for the best of debut feature films of directors from around the world produced within one calendar year before the festival dates.

World Cinema focuses on screening the best films from all over the world produced within one calendar year before the festival dates. This section is meant to be a Festival of Festival films, the award winning and critically acclaimed films screened in other international film festivals and commercially successful, technically superior films.

Indian Showcase presents a selection of Indian cinema made in one calendar year before the festival dates. This section is meant to be a show window for the best Indian films targeting the foreign delegates, Festival directors, sales agents and co-producers.

Mumbai Dimensions is to tease, target and provide a forum to the young creative minds in the city of Mumbai to come up with the best film on any aspect of this metropolis in any format of their choice. Only students and young media professionals under 25 years of age can submit films for this competition section.

The Retrospective section presents the treasures from the past.

The Mumbai Film Festival Programme aims to present the best of the crop in all its sections.

Mumbai - the financial capital of India is also the most important centre of the Indian Film Industry. The city plays such a major role in production and dissemination of Indian films and television programs that it is widely known by its acronym ‘BOLLYWOOD'. In 1997, a group of film industry stalwarts headed by late Hrishikesh Mukherjee founded the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) 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 is chaired by the internationally renowned Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: Digi-Beta, 16mm, 35mm, Other
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.mumbaifilmfest.com/ General_Regulations.php