Konkona
SenSharma's directorial debut A
Death in the Gunj will open 18th
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.The
opening ceremony will be held at Royal
Opera House . Jury members for India
Gold and International
Competition headed by Turkish
writer-director Reha Erdem and Portuguese writer-director Miguel Gomez respectively .This festival will run from 20 to
27 October . Indian writer-director Sai Paranjpye and Chinese
film-maker Jia Zhangke to be honoured with Excellence in Cinema awards.
Trailblazing film-maker Cary Fukunaga to conduct Masterclass at the
Festival. The Jury composition is as follows:
International Competition Jury
Miguel Gomes, Head of Jury
Miguel Gomes
studied cinema at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He worked as a film
critic from 1996 to 2000. Subsequently, he directed several short films
including the Oberhausen Short Film Festival winner Meanwhile (1999)
before directing features such as The Face You Deserve (2004), Our
Beloved Month Of August (2008), the Berlin FIPRESCI prize winner Tabu
(2012) and Arabian Nights, a three-part feature film that premiered in
the Directors Fortnight at Cannes in 2015.
Tala Hadid
Tala Hadid made her first docufeature, Sacred Poet
on Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her films have screened at film festivals around the
world, including Berlin and Venice and shown, among other venues, at the Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York, The Walker Arts
Center, La Cinémathèque Française in Paris and the Photographer’s
Gallery in London. Her films have received numerous awards, including a Student
Academy Award in 2005 for Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan. In 2015, Hadid's
latest project, House in the Fields, was selected to screen as a
work-in-progress at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded two
prizes.
Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap is an Indian film writer, director and
producer. Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma's crime
drama Satya (1998), and made his directorial debut with Paanch
(2003). He has won six Filmfare awards for his films Udaan (2010), Gangs
of Wasseypur (2012), Queen (2013). Among his other notable films are
Dev D (2009), a modern adaptation of Devdas, the thriller That
Girl in Yellow Boots (2011), the two-part crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur
(2012), Murabba one of the short films in Bombay Talkies (2013), Ugly
(2014) and Bombay Velvet (2015). In 2013, he was awarded the Chevalier
dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters)
at a ceremony during the Cannes Film Festival. He is the founder of the film
production company Anurag Kashyap Films, and co-founder of Phantom Films.
Chris McDonald
Chris McDonald is President of Hot Docs, North
America’s largest documentary film festival and market. Hot Docs’ mandate is to
advance and celebrate the art of documentary, and to provide support to
doc-filmmakers. The festival has raised over $100 million in production
financing for filmmakers, and attracted an audience of over 211,000 in 2016,
along with 2500+ international delegates. In addition to having raised over $8
million in production funds for filmmakers, Hot Docs opened one of the world’s
first year-round doc-focussed cinemas in 2012. The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
in Toronto has attracted over 700,000 filmgoers since then.
Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and
Gotham Award winner, who co-founded the production house Killer Films with partner
Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over the past decade and a half, the two have produced
some of the most celebrated American indie features, including Carol
(2015, nominated for six Academy Awards), Far from Heaven (2002,
nominated for four Academy Awards), Still Alice (2014, Academy Award
winner), Boys Don’t Cry (1999, Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo
(2002), Kids (1995), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2004), Happiness
(1998), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Safe (1995), I Shot Andy
Warhol (1996), Camp (2003), Swoon (1992) and I’m Not There
(2007, Academy Award nominated). In television, Vachon recently
executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries Mildred
Pierce (2011) for HBO and Z, an upcoming series on Amazon based on the life
of Zelda Fitzgerald. Her other recent works include Kill Your Darlings
(2015), Goat (2016), and Wiener-Dog (2016).
India Gold Jury
Reha Erdem
Head of Jury
Born in Istanbul, Reha Erdem graduated from the Cinema
Department of Paris 8 University. He obtained his M.A. in Plastic Arts at the
same University. He made his first feature-length film, Oh Moon in
1989, as a French-Turkish co-production. He made Run for Money in
1999, Mommy, I’m Scared in 2004, Times and Winds in
2006, My Only Sunshine, Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian co-production,
in 2008, Kosmos in 2009. Jin (2012) and Singing
Women (2013) are Turkish-French-German co-productions. His latest film, Big
Big World (2016) has won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti Section of
the Venice Film Festival.
Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna is an Academy Award-winning film
composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with
orchestral and electronic music. He won the 2013 Oscar and Golden Globe for his
score for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and has composed many award-winning
scores for his long-time collaborator, Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter,
1997), Exotica (1994)). His other noted credits include films such as Monsoon
Wedding (2001), Antwone Fisher (2002), Being Julia (2004), Capote
(2005), Water (2005), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Surf’s Up
(2007), 500 Days of Summer (2008), The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus (2009), Moneyball (2011), Sanjay’s Super Team
(2015) and The Good Dinosaur (2015). Danna's recent films include Billy
Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) and Storks (2016).
Yonfan
Yonfan started out as a renowned photographer and was
noted for his celebrity portraits, before he made the transition to filmmaking.
He began making films in the late ‘80s and till date has directed thirteen
films including A Certain Romance (1984), Story of Rose (1985), Bugis
Street (1995), Bishonen (1998), Peony Pavilion (2001) and Prince
of Tears (2009). He has also been on the juries of the film festivals at
Busan and Sydney.
Tomasz Wasilewski
Tomasz Wasilewski is a Polish film director and
screenwriter. His 2016 film United States of Love was shown at the 66th
Berlin International Film Festival where he won the Silver Bear for Best
Script. He is considered the most interesting voice in the young Polish
directing scene and is already considered a promising representative of
European auteur cinema. He is characterized by a minimalistic style. His movies
are built from psychological portraits created with precision and
sensitiveness.
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek is the film critic for Time Magazine.
She has previously worked with Boston Phoenix and was the chief film
critic for Salon.com and the Village Voice. A graduate of
Syracuse University, New York, Zacharek’s writings on books and pop culture
have also appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Los
Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and Sight and Sound. In 2010, as a
part of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Zacharek participated on the
panel ‘Fear Eats the Soul: The State of Film Criticism’. She is a member of the
New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics and was a
finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in criticism.
