THE JIO MAMI FILM CLUB WITH STAR TO SCREEN THE INDIA PREMIERE OF DAMIEN CHAZELLE ‘LA LA LAND’

Mumbai, November 21, 2016: After a magnificent week of showcasing some of the most acclaimed and exciting films from across the world at the 18th Mumbai Film Festival, the Jio MAMI Film Club with Star is back with its first event to kick start the 19^th year. The film club in collaboration with Viacom 18 Motion Pictures will host the India premiere of La La Land on November 23, 2016 at PVR Icon, Audi 3, Andheri.

Jio MAMI with Star, Creative Director, Smriti Kiran said, “There couldn't have been a better start than this La La Land is one film we sorely missed at the festival. This screening is a wish fulfilment. Studios and filmmakers trusting us with their work is heartening. We hope to keep building this trust and continue bringing the best films and talent for film lovers in the city.”

screening to flag off our 19th year.

Directed and written by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash), La La Land is an American romantic musical comedy-drama which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in August 2016 and it won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). The movie stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, and J. K. Simmons. Damien Chazelle’s previous movie Whiplash (2014), was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards

La La Land takes us through the beautiful journey of a Jazz pianist and aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film reunites Gosling and Stone after Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and Gangster Squad (2013). The songs and score for La La Land is composed and orchestrated by Justin Hurwitz who also composed the background score for Whiplash. He was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (2016).

Other awards won by the film include the Hamptons International Film Festival - Audience Award: Best Narrative Feature, Hollywood Film Awards - Hollywood Producer Award, Hollywood Cinematography Award, Venice Film festival - Golden Lion (Nomination), Green Drop Award (Nomination) and Volpi Cup for Best Actress (Won).

Jio MAMI with Star VISION 2016

The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star is an inclusive movie feast. We showcase the latest cutting-edge, independent cinema - art house fare alongside genre movies from Bollywood and Hollywood and cult international movies. We offer the best of world cinema to the people of Mumbai and we offer the best of Indian cinema to the world. The festival is run by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image popularly known as MAMI. This is a space where we revel in the sheer pleasure of cinema, the joy it gives us and how much it enhances our lives. The goal is to nurture and ignite a passion for movies. We want Jio MAMI with Star to be shorthand for excellence in cinema.

ABOUT Jio MAMI with Star Film Festival

Mumbai - the financial capital of India is also the epicenter of the Indian film industry. The city plays such a major role in production and dissemination of Indian films and television programs that it is widely known by its acronym 'Bollywood'. In 1997, a group of film industry stalwarts headed by late Hrishikesh Mukherjee founded the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) as a not-for-profit Trust. Their main objective was to organize an annual International Film Festival which the film industry and the country could be proud of. MAMI has been organizing the festival for the last 16 years and aims to foster a climate of good cinema. MAMI engages people from all walks of life across the city and country that enjoy and love good cinema. It is Mumbai’s only film festival that is entirely created and run by film professionals and a group of members from corporate India. Appreciation of good cinema, stripped off all the limiting labels of art and commercial, can only come about through exposure to the best of films the world has to offer. The Festival is the first step in that direction.

In their Mission Statement in 1997, the MAMI Board of Trustees said, “We feel it is the need of the hour to disseminate and inculcate good cinema among Indian audiences. The only way to achieve this is to celebrate cinema by hosting an International Film Festival in Mumbai, India’s film and entertainment capital. MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) is committed to start Mumbai's first independent international film festival organized by practicing film makers.

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