In the Life of a Film Festival : 20 Years of MAMI

The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) is a public trust that organizes the annual international film festival in Mumbai known as the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF). MAMI aims to foster a climate of good cinema. Sucheta Chakraborty has masters degrees in Film Studies and English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, UK and Jadavpur University, Kolkata respectively. She has worked as an editor with Routledge, Oxford University Press and Marg Magazine. Currently based in Mumbai, she writes regularly on cinema. Her articles have appeared in publications like The Hindu, Firstpost, Film Companion, Scroll.in and The Telegraph among others. Rupleena Bose teaches English Literature at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. After hours, she writes non-fiction and fiction screenplays. Films written by her have won several awards including a National Award. Her directorial documentary Humour Black is about satire and absurdity in India. She writes on cinema for The Hindu, Firstpost, Open, EPW and other magazines. Her doctoral research is on urban music in Calcutta in the nineties. She is also translating modernist Bengali songs of the same period as a part of her research. She has been a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship holder for Creative Writing and is currently working on her first novel. Her other interests include cats, stories and more cats.