Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image chaired by Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal. The other Trustees of MAMI are: Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image The Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) is a public trust that organizes the annual international film festival in Mumbai known as the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF). Filmmaker Kiran Rao is the chairman of the trust. In 1997, a group of film industry stalwarts headed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee founded the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image as a not for profit trust. The main intention was to organize an annual international film festival of which the film industry and the country can
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