12th Mumbai Film Festival offers one of the highest Cash Awards and Incentives – US $ 200,000
International Competition for the first feature films of directors.
US $100,000 for the Best Film to be shared equally between the producer and director of the film.
US $ 50,000 for the Jury Grand Prize to be shared equally between the producer and director of the film.
The Audience Choice Award
US $ 20,000 to be shared equally between the producer and the director of the film.
Cash incentives for Sales Agents
US $ 10,000 if the award winning films are international or world premiers.
Mumbai Film Festival programme is divided into seven sections: International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors, World Cinema, Indian Frame, Dimensions Mumbai, Retrospectives, Above the Cut and New Faces in Indian Cinema.
International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors is for the best of debut feature films of directors from around the world produced within one calendar year before the festival dates. This section aims at discovering and honoring new talents in the field of direction and providing them networking possibilities.
World Cinema focuses on screening the best films from all over the world produced within one calendar year before the festival dates. This section is meant to be a Festival of Festival films, the award winning and critically acclaimed films screened in other international film festivals and commercially successful, technically superior films. This section is an indicator of the latest trends in film making around the globe.
Indian Showcase, as the name indicates, presents a selection of Indian cinema made in one calendar year before the festival dates. This section is meant to be a show window for the best Indian films targeting the foreign delegates, Festival directors, sales agents and co-producers. The Festival plans to promote this section in a big way and help the film makers network with target group.
Dimensions Mumbai is to tease, target and provide a forum to the young creative minds in the city of Mumbai to come up with the best film on any aspect of this metropolis in any format of their choice. Only students and young media professionals under 25 years of age can submit films for this competition section.
The Retrospectives section presents the treasures from the past. It is nostalgia for the veterans to revisit these films and a process of learning and sheer pleasure of watching these masterpieces for the youngsters.
Above The Cut is a non-competitive section which presents the First Feature Films of Directors which could not be accommodated in the International Competition for the First Films of Directors.
New Faces in Indian Cinema is a non-competitive section which will screen First and Second Feature Films of the Indian directors and aims to provide a platform to young emerging Indian filmmakers.
The Mumbai Film Festival Programme aims to present the best of the crop in all its sections.
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