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PRESS KIT 2017 th 19 VISION

The Jio MAMI 19th Festival with Star is an inclusive movie feast. We showcase the latest cutting-edge, independent cinema. We ofer the best of world cinema to the people of Mumbai and we ofer the best of Indian cinema to the world. The Festival is run by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image popularly known as MAMI. This is a space where we revel in the sheer pleasure of cinema, the joy it gives us and how much it enhances our lives. The goal is to nurture and ignite a passion for movies. PROGRAMMING 2017 COMPETITIVE SECTIONS GOLD India Gold is a competition section for Indian feature films. Through this section, the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star showcases breakthrough and contemporary Indian films, made within the current year.

ASHWATTHAMA RALANG ROAD Dir: Pushpendra Singh | Brij Dir: Karma Takapa | Nepali

SEXY DURGA Dir: Ektara Collective | Dir: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | Malayalam

Dir: Devashish Makhija | Hindi Dir: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar | Chokri

VILLAGE ROCKSTARS Dir: Dipesh Jain | Hindi Dir: Rima Das | Assamese

JUZE ZOO Dir: Miransha Naik | Konkani Dir: | Hindi

MACHINES Dir: Rahul Jain | Hindi INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION The section is a prestigious platform that shines a spotlight on new cinematic voices. It is open to debut filmmakers from all over the world who have films made within the current year.

APOSTASY OBLIVION VERSES Dir: Daniel Kokotajlo Dir : Alireza Khatami UK | English, Urdu France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile | Spanish

BAD LUCKY GOAT OH LUCY! Dir: Samir Oliveros, Dir : Atsuko Hirayanagi Colombia | Creole USA, Japan | English, Japanese

I AM NOT A WITCH QUEST Dir: Rungano Nyoni, Dir : Jonathan Olshefski UK, France | English, Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga USA | English

MONTPARNASSE BIENVENUE (JEUNE FEMME) SCARY MOTHER (SASHI DEDA) Dir: Leonor Seraille Dir: Ana Urushadze France | French Georgia, Estonia | Georgian

MORE (DAHA) SUMMER 1993 (ESTIU 1993) Dir: Onur Saylak Dir: Carla Simón Turkey | Turkish Spain | Catalan

MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND THE WOUND Dir: Ana Asensio Dir: John Trengove USA, Spain | English, Spanish | Xhosa OUT OF COMPETITION INDIA STORY ASK THE SEXPERT PUSHKAR PURAN Dir: Vaishali Sinha | English Dir: Kamal Swaroop | Hindi

A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS RETURNING TO THE FIRST BEAT Dir: Prateek Vats | Bengali Dir: Surabhi Sharma | Hindi

BHASMASUR THE FORSAKEN Dir: Nishil Sheth | Hindi Dir: Jiju Antony | Marathi

THE SUMMER OF MIRACLES Dir: Amshan Kumar | Tamil Dir: Prasanth Vijay | Malayalam

NIMMO WALKING WITH THE WIND Dir: Rahul Shanklya | Hindi Dir: Praveen Morchhale | Ladakhi

Dir: Girish Mohite | Marathi WORLD CINEMA

24 FRAMES BRIGSBY BEAR CLAIRE’S CAMERA Dir: Abbas Kiarostami Dir: Dave McCary (KEUL-LE- EO-UI KA-ME- LA) Iran, France | English, Farsi USA | English Dir: Hong Sangsoo South Korea | Korean, French A GENTLE CREATURE (KROTKAYA) CALIFORNIA DREAMS Dir: Sergei Loznitsa Dir: Mike Ott DEVIL’S FREEDOM Ukraine | Russian USA | English (LA LIBERTAD DEL DIABLO) Dir: Everardo González A SUITABLE GIRL CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Mexico | Spanish Dir: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra Dir: Luca Guadagnino USA | English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi Italy, France | English, Italian, French DINA Dir: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles USA | English APRIL’S DAUGHTER CENTAUR (LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL) Dir: Aktan Arym Kubat FREE AND EASY Dir: Michel Franco Kyrgyzstan , France , Germany , Dir: Geng Jun Mexico | Spanish Netherlands | Kirghiz | Mandarin BARLEY FIELDS ON THE OTHER CHAVELA SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Dir: Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi HOLY CAMP! (LA LLAMADA) Dir: Tian Tsering USA | Spanish, Portuguese Dir: Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi UK | Tibetan Spain | Spanish

BEACH RATS CITY OF GHOSTS INVISIBLE Dir: Eliza Hittman Dir: Matthew Heineman Dir: Pablo Giorgelli USA | English USA | Arabic Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, France | Spanish WORLD CINEMA IT COMES AT NIGHT ON BODY AND SOUL (TESTRÖL ÉS LÉLEKRÖL) Dir: Trey Edward Shults Dir: Ildikó Enyedi USA | English Hungary | Hungarian LIES WE TELL ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE Dir: Mitu Misra (BAMUI HAEBYUN-EOSEO HONJA) UK | English Dir: Hong Sangsoo South Korea | Korean LOVELESS (NELYUBOV) Dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev ONE THOUSAND ROPES Russia | Russian Dir: Tusi Tamasese | Samoan, English LOVING PIA (AT ELSKE PIA) Dir: Daniel Borgman PENDULAR Denmark | Danish Dir: Julia Murat Brazil, Argentina | Portuguese MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS SIGNATURE MOVE Dir: Jennifer Reeder Dir: Mouly Surya USA | English, Urdu, Spanish Indonesia, France, Malaysia, Thailand | Indonesian SPOOR (POKOT) NOTHINGWOOD Dir: Agnieszka Holland Dir: Sonia Kronlund Poland, Germany, Czech Republic | Polish France, Germany | Dari, French SWEET COUNTRY NOVEMBER Dir: Warwick Thornton Dir: Rainer Sarnet | English, Arrernte Estonia | Estonian, German WORLD CINEMA

THE DAY AFTER (GEU-HU) THE PARTY Dir: Hong Sangsoo Dir: Sally Potter South Korea | Korean UK | English

THE DEPARTURE THE SQUARE Dir: Lana Wilson Dir: Ruben Östlund USA | Japanese Sweden, France, Denmark | English, Swedish

THE FLORIDA PROJECT THELMA Dir: Sean Baker Dir: Joachim Trier USA | English Norway, Sweden, France, Denmark | Norwegian

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE UNTITLED (TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN) Dir: Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi Dir: Aki Kaurismaki Austria, Germany | English, German Finland, Germany | Finnish, English, Arabic VAZANTE THE SUMMIT Dir: Daniela Thomas Dir: Santiago Mitre Brazil, Portugal | Portuguese Argentina, Spain, France | Spanish WAJIB Dir: Annemarie Jacir THE THIRD MURDER (SANDOME NO SATSUJIN) Palestine, France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, Qatar, UAE | Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda Arabic Japan | Japanese OPENING FILM Dir:

The story of Mukkabaaz is set in the city of in . Shravan (Vineet Kumar Singh) is a lower-caste boxer struggling to leave his mark and making the case with his fists that he deserves a chance to compete. His career is threatened afer he delivers a nasty right hook to the face of Bhagwan — his employer, the local kingpin, and the top boxing promoter in the region. Following this melee, Bhagwan does everything he can to stop Shravan from ascending up the ranks, including preventing him from pursuing the woman he has fallen in love with, Sunaina. Bhagwan will go to any length to punish and humiliate Shravan. But what he doesn’t count on is Shravan’s tough-mindedness. He’s been an underdog all his life and will stop at nothing to go all the way to the Indian National Boxing Championship. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY JOHN MADDEN HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL JURY

John Philip Madden is an English director of film, television, theatre, and radio. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge with a B.A. in English Literature, he began his career with theatre, before moving on to the BBC and entering the world of radio and television. With several prominent television titles to his credit, including Prime Suspect 4 and episodes of Sherlock Holmes, Madden turned his focus to feature in the early nineties. His film Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1998 as well as the Silver Bear at the 49th annual Berlin International Film Festival. His recent successes include much-loved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel series and Miss Sloane (2016). Along with his work as a director, Madden serves as a jury member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to showcase their work to industry professionals. ALEXIS ZABE CELINA JADE

Alexis Zabe is a cinematographer from Mexico City whose Celina Jade is a Hong Kong-American actress, singer, work spans various platforms with films, commercials, songwriter, model and martial artist. Her early career and music videos. In 2004, he garnered widespread as a singer, which began when she was only 14, got her acclaim for his work on fellow film-school graduate widespread success and numerous No. 1 hits across Asia. Fernando Eimbcke’s film Duck Season, and earned his first As an actress, she has several noteworthy roles to her Cinematography Honors at Mexico’s Ariel Awards. He has credit, including that of ‘Shado’ in the first two season of since worked on several acclaimed titles including Carlos CW’s . Her most recent success is her leading role the Reygadas’ Silent Light (2007) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012), Chinese action megahit (2017). both of which won awards at the . In 2013, Zabe worked as the cinematographer on the music video of Pharrell Williams’ widely popular song “Happy”. His most recent feature film is Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, which premiered at Cannes 2017. KONKONA SANTIAGO SENSHARMA MITRE

Konkona Sensharma is an award-winning actress and film Santiago Mitre is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. director. Beginning her career as a child artist in Bengali He began his directorial work with a short film in 2002, and films at the age of 4, she has now acted in over 40 films continued to work on commercials for the next four years. in Hindi, Bengali and English. Her performance in Mr. and He went on to work as a writer on several notable feature Mrs. Iyer (2002) earned her a National Film Award for Best films, including Pablo Trapero’s Lion’s Den(2008), Carancho Actress along with widespread critical acclaim. She won (2010), and White Elephant (2012) – all of which showcased her second National Film Award four years later for her at various editions of the Cannes Film Festival. He continued performance in Omkara in 2006, which was also the year to earn critical praise as a filmmaker with his own directorial she debuted as director with her short film Naamkoron. In works The Student (2011) and Paulina (2015), with the latter 2016, she established herself as a director with her debut winning him the Critics’ Week Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI feature film A Death in the Gunj while continuing her Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His most recent feature, The work as an acclaimed actress with ’s Summit (2017), opened at Cannes’ to . widespread acclaim. BOARD OF TRUSTEES KIRAN RAO CHAIRPERSON

Kiran Rao is an acclaimed director and producer (Peepli Live, Belly). Her directorial debut, Dhobi Ghat, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was later screened at the London Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival.

NITA M. AMBANI FOUNDER & CHAIRPERSON, RELIANCE FOUNDATION & CO-CHAIR

Nita Ambani is an educationist, philanthropist, businesswoman and a noted proponent of sports. Nita is the Founder Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, which has impacted the lives of over seven million people. She provides leadership to 14 schools and is the Founder Chairperson of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, India’s No. 1 International School. She heads the Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, a state-of-the-art multi-specialty hospital in Mumbai. Nita is the architect of Mumbai Indians, which won the IPL trophy in 2013 and 2015 and the Champions League T20.

ANUPAMA CHOPRA FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Anupama Chopra is a film critic, television anchor and book author. She has been writing about since 1993. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, , The Los Angeles Times and Vogue (India) FILMMAKER

Farhan Akhtar shot into prominence with his directorial debut (2001) and followed it up with Lakshya (2004) and (2006). As an actor, he was noticed for his performances in (2010), (2011), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), and Wazir (2016). He has also produced films such as Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd. (2007), Rock On! (2008) and (2013).

KARAN JOHAR FILMMAKER

The multi-faceted Karan wears many caps with ease. Besides being an acclaimed director and one of the most influential men in the industry today, Karan is also a television personality, a talk show host, a costume designer and the latest feather in his cap is that of being an actor. His talk show Kofee with Karan has the distinction of being the most watched English talk show on Indian television.

VIKRAMADITYA MOTWANE FILMMAKER

Vikramaditya Motwane began his career in filmmaking by assisting on (1999) and (2002). He also served as an assistant to directors and Anurag Kashyap. His directorial debut Udaan (2010) was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He later directed the and -starrer (2013) and co-founded with , Anurag Kashyap and . ACTOR

Deepika is one of Bollywood’s most successful and popular actors. Her films such as Cocktail, Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela and Finding Fanny have been critical and commercial successes.

RITEISH DESHMUKH ACTOR & FILMMAKER

Riteish Deshmukh debuted as an actor in 2003 with Tujhe Meri Kasam and since then has starred in a diverse array of films such as Blufmaster (2005), Darna Zaroori Hai (2006), Rann (2010), Housefull (2010), (2014) and Banjo (2016). He has also ventured into film production with Ravi Jadhav’s Balak Palak (2013), Lai Bhaari (2014) and Mahesh Limaye’s Yellow (2014), a few of the most acclaimed films of recent times.

AJAY BIJLI CHAIRMAN & MD, PVR LTD.

Ajay Bijli’s passion for movies led him to set up PVR Cinemas in 1995. The largest multiplex chain in India has unassailable lead in the number of screens over competitors. Clearly, Mr Bijli transformed the way millions of Indians consume entertainment content over the past two-and-a-half decades. As an industry leader of Indian film exhibition, Ajay is on the Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) and the founding member of FICCI Multiplex Association. SIDDHARTH ROY KAPUR PRODUCER

Siddharth started his journey in the Indian film industry when he joined UTV in umbai in 2005,

behind multile ath breaking films, includin the cult lcuster Rang De Basanti and the sleeer hit hsla Ka hsla, both of which released in 2006 and started a new trend in the way movies were marketed in India.

MANISH MUNDRA PRODUCER

Rajat ar on Twitter in 2013, Manish agreed to finance . The film went on to win three ilmfare Awards and three , and there has been no lin back for the crrate leader-turnedfilm roducer. Since that fateful year, Manish has ursued his assion for content- driven cinema with a sinleminded dedication.

ISHA AMBANI DIRECTOR, RELIANCE JIO AND RELIANCE RETAIL

Is a director at Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail. She is currently invlved in launchin Jio, Reliance industries’ latest venture into technlgy in India. Preiusly, she served as a business analyst at McKinsey and many’s New York fice. She graduated frm Yale University (2013) with a dule mar in Psychlgy and South Asian Studies. At Yale she served as resident of the South Asian Society. Ms. mbani remains actively interested in South Asian issues and is articularly interested in the field education. FILMMAKER

She is a prominent screenwriter and director in the Indian film fraternity having recently directed the box fice hit il Dhadakne Do” which was critically acclaimed. In 2011, she directed the feature ‘’Zindagi Na ilegi Dobara’, another multi starrer that won ele’s hearts and, in 2009, she made her directrial debut with . Apart from having one foot in the feature wrld, she spent a good number of years in advertising as well - from being an extremely eficient 1st AD and running the show on set for the biggest Indian as well as internatinal rands.

VISHAL BHARDWAJ FILMMAKER

ishal Bhardwaj is a multile atinal ilm Award winning writer, producer, music composer and

Godmother (1999) and Hu Tu Tu (1999), Bhardwaj made his directrial debut with the critically acclaimed children’s film Makdee . Since then, he has directed several acclaimed films such as al (2003), Omkara (2006), Kaminey (2009) and Haider (2014), which won him the atinal ilm Award for Best Director. He has als produced wellreceived films such as Dedh Ishqiya (2014) and Talvar .

ANAND MAHINDRA CHAIRMAN & MD, MAHINDRA GROUP

Anand G Mahindra is Chairman of the US .9 billin Mahindra Group which is today one of India’s top industrial houses. The Mahindra Group is a socially and environmentally resnsile global federation of companies with a leading presence in each sector in which it is present. Mahindra is present across the spectrum from Agri-business to Aerospace and is now entering new areas like renewables. ROHAN SIPPY FILMMAKER

Rohan Sippy is a filmmaker who has directed popular films like Kuch Naa Kaho, Blufmaster, Dum Maaro Dum and Nautanki Saala. As a producer his credits include films such as Taxi 9211, The President Is Coming, and Chandni Chowk to China. He also writes for a variety of publications, including India Today, Mid-Day & Man’s World, and has served as a columnist for .

ANURAG KASHYAP FILMMAKER

Anurag Kashyap is an eminent filmmaker. Having started his career as a screenwriter, he was first noted for the screenplay of Satya, which he co-wrote with . His credits as a writer include Kaun (1999), (1999), (2004) and Water (2005). He made his directorial debut with (2003) and has since then directed films such as Black Friday (2007), Dev D (2009), Gulaal (2009), Part 1 and Part 2 (2012), Ugly (2014) and Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Anurag has also produced films such as Aamir (2008), Udaan (2010), (2014) and (2016). KAUSTUBH DHAVSE JOINT SECRETARY AND OFFICER ON SPECIAL DUTY (OSD) TO HON. CHIEF MINISTER

Kaustubh Dhavse is the Joint Secretary in the Government of designated as Oficer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister. In this role, he drives Technology and Infrastructure in the state via various programs and Special Projects. He is credited for establishing “Aaple Sarkar” Portal which is the Government’s interface for citizen’s grievances, Govt. services and collaboration. In this endeavour, he works closely with Department of Information Technology to devise long term strategy for the portal. He also runs the “CM’s War Room” which is a unit under the CM to monitor and drive key projects in Maharashtra. THANK YOU