MAMI Film Festival’s Delhi Edition opened its gates to the city this Saturday. Present at the event were MAMI Director Anupama Chopra and filmmakers and board members Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Vishal Bhardwaj.
The opening of the year-round project was marked by the screening of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs at PVR ECX, Chanakya, followed by Ari Aster’s Hereditary on Sunday.
The launch was officially opened by Ajay Bijli, Managing Director, PVR, and Sanjeev Bijli, Joint Managing Director, PVR; along with Akhtar, Kashyap, Bhardwaj, Anupama and festival’s creative director Smriti Kiran. Cinema exhibition chain PVR Cinemas is piloting the Delhi Edition of MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image), read a statement to IANS.
The MAMI Year Round Programme was initially launched in 2016 in Mumbai. It started with the belief that it is not enough to have a week-long film festival.
The Academy now hosts weekly screenings, workshops and conversation sessions for film lovers in the country. Till date, the MAMI Year Round Programme in Mumbai has screened over 40 films which include Lady Bird, The Square, Zama, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and Village Rockstars
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