Midway through Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), the Director and the Brand Ambassador met the press on Monday, 01 February, at the Media Centre, in the Films Division Complex. It was the...

MIFF 2016: Indian women pack a punch Ameesha Joshi, born in Canada to immigrant Indian parents, and Anna Sarkissian, of Egyptian/Armenian-Irish parentage, could not have imagined that their...

MIFF 2016: Harshal Wadkar: Cyclic emotions Pune-based amateur film-maker Harshal Wadkar, whose film 30-minute short fiction film Cycle was screened at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF)...

MIFF 2016: FD’s North-East outreach Films Division (FD) has initiated an outreach programme to inculcate the fine art of film-making in the far-flung areas of India’s North-East. Six young,...

MIFF 2016: Mike Pandey: “We need many more documentary makers” In 1994, Mike Pandey won the Wildscreen Panda Award, better known as the Green Oscar, for his film on the capture of wild elephants,...

MIFF 2016: Daredevil Naresh Bedi and his stunning documentaries          World-renowned wildlife filmmaker Naresh Bedi was honoured with the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening...

MIFF 2016: Master Class by Festival Director Mukesh Sharma Varied experience and a long, eventful career, make Mukesh Sharma just the person to speak on ‘How not to make films’. And he speaks so...

MIFF 2016: Open Forum V: Embedding documentaries in film studies Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF)’s fifth and last Open Forum was held on 02 February. It was organised by the Indian...

MIFF 2016: Open Forum IV—Pointing inwards, pointing outwards Mathieu Roy, Canadian film-maker and member of the jury at MIFF, a former personal assistant to Martin Scorsese whose films include...

MIFF: Open Forum III--Real documentaries, and faking it! On the 31st of January, four passionate speakers and one moderator discussed another complex issue at the Mumbai International Film...