About the Book: In the Life of a Film Festival : 20 Years of MAMI
In 1997, a group of film industry stalwarts, including Hrishikesh Mukherjee,
Shyam Benegal and Ramesh Sippy, founded the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image as a
not-for-profit trust to organize an annual international film festival which the
film industry and the country can be proud of. Since then, the festival has had
its ups and downs. There were days of glory with guests like Oliver Stone,
Asghar Farhadi and Jane Campion, but it nearly shut down in 2014 because the
main sponsors pulled out (which is when the current team stepped