MUMBAI: For the first time ever in the 60-year history of film festivals in India, the Mumbai Film Festival will hold a world premiere of an international film.
Said Reliance Big Entertainment chairman Amit Khanna, "For the first time in an Indian film festival we are having a world premiere of the Danish film Abobe the Street Below the Water, directed by Charlotte Sieling."
This year as many as 200 films from 58 countries would be screened during the eight-day festival that will run from 21 to 28 October.
The film festival would be the first of its kind to have a film business centre through which independent filmmakers would get exposed to the world‘s top 25 film-distributing companies.
Averred Khanna, "There have always been complaints from filmmakers that they never had a film market. No business is conducted. NFDC has tried its best in the past but somehow or the other never managed to get serious buyers there. Fortunately Reliance Entertainment Group has a significant interest in business all over the world. So we were able to tap our resources and happily the top 25 buyers of the world, are attending this festival."
The venues of the festival are Chandan Cinema (Juhu) and the adjacent five screens of PVR Juhu that will function as the Main Festival Complex along with two screens of Metro Big Cinemas (Marine Lines) and one screen of R City (Ghatkopar).
