India’s MAMI Mumbai Movie Pageant is rolling out spherical two of its MAMI Choose – Filmed on iPhone program, increasing to 4 languages with a high-profile mentor lineup of Indian cinema heavyweights.
The initiative has assembled a mentor panel together with actor-director Konkona Sen Sharma (“A Demise within the Gunj”), and filmmakers Lijo Jose Pellissery (“Jallikattu”), Vikramaditya Motwane (“CTRL”) and Vetrimaaran (“Viduthalai”). The mentors will information the chosen filmmakers by means of pre-production to post-production.
The 2025 program will choose 4 rising administrators to create brief movies within the Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil languages. Every filmmaker will obtain a manufacturing grant together with an iPhone 16 Professional Max and MacBook Professional for capturing and modifying.
Sen Sharma lauds the initiative’s “give attention to enabling and offering a platform to recent younger filmmaking voices, whereas Pellissery says, “Given the variety of Indian cinema, I used to be so joyful to listen to that the goal of this program is to establish and help filmmakers from completely different areas of India.”
Motwane, returning as mentor, says: “I used to be utterly blown away by the standard of the storytelling and the technical finesse of the brief movies final 12 months. I can’t wait to see what sort of magic the brand new batch of filmmakers create this 12 months.”
The finished shorts, working 20-40 minutes, will premiere at a particular screening earlier than hitting MAMI’s YouTube channel.
Pageant director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur notes this marks the primary time MAMI has opened functions nationwide. “I would like to construct on this nice initiative in order that we are able to lengthen this chance to many extra rising filmmakers subsequent 12 months,” he says.
Purposes are open by means of Jan. 19.
