MIFF 2010 -Naresh Bedi’s documentary ‘On a Tiger Trail’ and Shih-Ting Hung’s ‘ Viola :The Traveling rooms of a little giant’ are the inaugural films.

The 11th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (MIFF 2010) will be held from February 3 to 9 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) complex in South Mumbai. The biennial Festival is organised by the Films Division of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in association with Government of Maharashtra.
Veteran film maker and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Mr.Yash Chopra will be the Chief Guest of the Opening Ceremony which will be presided over by Ms.Ambika Soni ,Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting.Secretary, Information & Broadcasting, Raghu Menon ,Ajay Devgan, Tanushree Datta and Oscar Award winning sound recordist Resul Pookutty will be present in the opening ceremony. Naresh Bedi’s documentary ‘On a Tiger Trail’ and Shih-Ting Hung’s ‘Viola :The Traveling rooms of a little giant’ are the inaugural films. The Festival received 864 entries from 37 countries .The highlights of the festival are the Special Package on Immigration issues consisting of 4 films from The Netherlands, Cinema legends (31 films), Remembering Freedom Icons (9 films), Puppet Films –by Sanjit Ghosh (8 films), Films on Women’s Issues (10 films), Films from Film Schools (L V Prasad, NID, Satyajit Ray FTI) (28 films), Treasures from NFAI (13 films), Science Fiction Special Package (from USA, France, Italy) (6 films), Persistence Resistance Special Package (5 films) and Films on Environment (including Vatavaran package) (16 films).There is also a special North East Package of 10 films and Swiss-India package of 4 films. The countries in Focus are Bhutan and Argentina.National Film Archives of India, Pune will stage a unique show of pre-cinema projection technique called‘Shambharik Kharolika’ (the magic lantern)