Sundance Institute and Mahindra Group today announced a multifaceted agreement that showcases the commitment to and support of independent cinema around the world both by the Mahindra Group, one of the largest companies in India known throughout the world for its commitment to excellence and to social responsibility, and of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, one of the world's leading cultural organizations    The collaboration allows for the establishment of the Mumbai Man...

While other large Western media conglomerates seem to have a hard time maintaining, their market shares, the Indian Reliance Industries Ltd through its numerous media subsidiaries provides a text book case of successful strategies. To begin with Reliance Industries is the biggest private sector company in India with a current estimated market value of about $83 billion. It has been ranked by Business Week as number 15 among the top 50 most innovative global companies. It is the only company ach...

Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentaries and Short and Animation Films will open on 3rd Feb. - 2010 The 11th edition of M.I.F.F. (Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films) organized by the Films Division, will open from 3rd to 9th February, 2010 at the prestigious National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point, Mumbai.  According to Shri Kuldeep Sinha, M.I.F.F. has gained recognition on par with renowned International...

BIG Cinemas, India's largest domestic and international cinema chain, a division of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd and a member of Reliance ADA Group, has hit its 500 screen milestone with the opening of its newest multiplex at Kedah, Malaysia.   Following the Reliance ADA Group acquiring the controlling stake in Reliance MediaWorks in 2005, BIG Cinemas has witnessed a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 100% in the scale of its operations.   In a little over three y...

The much awaited “MAMI” 8th International Film Festival – Mumbai is finaly scheduled to be held between March 23 – 30, 2006. Festival schedule is disturbed this year for various reasons, but lastly festival directorate geared up with fresh inthusiasm to make their commitments. The festival will pay tribute to Rossellini on his birth centenary year by showing his films. The opening of Retro will be -Rome Open City.Festival will also pay tributes to Prithviraj Kapoor (birth centenary ye...

‘When the first “President’s Gold Medal for the best feature film of India was instituted in 1953, for the Marathi film ‘SHAMCHI AAI’ (Shyam’s Mother), none of the jury member was Marathi. Every frame, every characterization was important. Film has its own language of expression, says veteran actress Vanamala, during presentation of special screening of yester years ‘Shamchi Aai’ was organized at iffi-Goa.‘Shamchi Aai’ is a landmark film based on the book by Sane Guruji, a na...