Mumbai
Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) which organises India’s leading film festival
has partnered with Qube Cinema for the Jio MAMI 20th
Mumbai Film Festival with Star. Qube Wire is the technical partner for
the festival.
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
with Star is Asia’s biggest film festival that brings together renowned film
talent from all over the world converging with the Indian industry from across
the country in Mumbai. MAMI was founded
in 1997 by renowned film professionals from the Indian Film Industry to create
an annual international film festival in India that brings the best of cinema
to the audience. This edition of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star
will celebrate its 20th year milestone.
Apart from the festival, the academy curates and runs a
unique Year-Round Programme that sustains conversations around cinema
throughout the year and makes cutting edge cinema from India and across the
world available to audiences year-round.
At Jio MAMI with Star, the emphasis has always been on
presenting a filmmaker’s vision as intended by them. The festival only
showcases DCPs and gives the utmost importance to ensuring that the technicals
of each screening adhere to the highest
global standards.
“Qube Cinema has been
working with the festival to further our vision of being a truly world-class
festival. With over 220 films screening at the festival in over 18 screens, the
logistics behind the process of screening a film with all the technicals in
place are vast. We are thrilled to collaborate again for this edition with Qube
Cinema.” said Anupama Chopra, Festival Director of MAMI.
“MAMI is partnering with Qube Cinema for the 8
th
consecutive year. This year Qube Wire has proven to be a great solution and will help
eliminate the pain of managing the content and keys for a number of movies.
Filmmakers from many countries take advantage of Qube Wire to eliminate their
logistical nightmares.” said Sharmila Vasudevan, Regional Marketing Head of
Qube Cinema.
With the Qube Wire service, the process
of physical Digital Cinema Package (DCP) transportation for a film festival has
now been enabled online. Qube Wire will also manage the DCPs and Key Delivery
Messages (KDMs) of all film screenings during the 20th edition of this
prestigious film festival. The dedicated festival module in Qube Wire will
eliminate the risk of drive failures and corrupted content associated with
physical delivery and storage. The Qube Wire cloud platform acts as a central
hub for all content, transforming the distribution process and ensuring that
KDMs are always targeted to the correct screen devices.
The Qube Wire
service is now available across 134 countries for delivery of movie content. The territories where Qube Wire
content delivery services are now available include major regions of the world
in both developing and mature markets, from Southeast Asia to Africa to Europe
and the Americas.
Qube Cinema has added
new features to the Qube Wire platform to simplify the digital cinema distribution
workflow. The new features include broadband and satellite delivery to
theatres, Wire Safe™, SMPTE FLM format support and an interesting data
visualisation feature, What’s-on-Wire (WOW).
Qube Wire has been the distribution
partner of many prestigious international film festivals across the world. The
prominent film festivals include the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, New
York Indian Film Festival, MAMI Film Festival and International Film Festival
of India (IFFI), Goa.
The 20
th edition of the Jio MAMI Mumbai
Film Festival with Star will take place between the 25th
October to 1st November, 2018.
Registrations
are now open to the
7-day movie festival. You can register at
www.bookmy.show/mami. Screened
at multiple venues across the city, the festival is an opportunity for all film
lovers to witness and encourage the emerging talent of the industry.
About Qube WireQube Wire is
a self-service, single-window system for global theatrical
distribution. With a simple but comprehensive user interface, distributors can
manage their digital cinema assets, assign territorial rights for their content
and have their Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) and keys (aka Key Delivery
Messages or KDMs) delivered to movie theatres across the world. Theatres can
manage their own digital cinema device details and access their Universal Inbox
on the Qube Wire service as well. To sign up for the Qube Wire service,
visit
www.qubewire.com
About Qube
Cinema,Inc.Qube Cinema,Inc. is a provider of end-to-end
digital cinema technology and solutions. The company draws on decades of
experience in cinema and provides a seamless digital environment for
exhibitors, filmmakers and post-production companies with DCI compliant
products that are flexible, reliable and cost-effective. For further information, visit
www.qubecinema.com
About MAMI
Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI),
India’s leading platform for cinematic disruption and discovery, was founded in
1997 by film industry stalwarts headed by Late Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The main
purpose of founding the academy was to give India an annual international film
festival which the film industry and the country can be proud of. MAMI is a
change-agent emboldening theater, audiences and the industry in India to
embrace the new, independent and the best of cinema that deserves to be
discovered. 2018 marks the 20th year of the festival and the mission statement
stated by the MAMI Board of Trustees in 1997 continues to be a reflection of
the initiative, "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 which
is the birthplace of Indian Cinema) and its 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."
MAMI organizes the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film
Festival with Star, an annual international film festival which engages film
lovers from all walks of life across the city and country and aims to foster a
climate of good cinema. For more information on MAMI, vi
sit:https://www.mumbaifilmfestival.com/ . Apart from the Mumbai Film Festival,
About Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festuval with
StarJio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star is
the most immersive and comprehensive program that celebrates the diverse
cinematic voices of our country through an international annual platform that
instills pride in audiences and unites the film fraternity. The festival is
organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), which was founded by a
group of film industry stalwarts in 1997 and was conceived and created with an
aim to engage film lovers from all walks of life, and to foster an ideal climate
of good cinema across the country by presenting the best of global and Indian
cinema. The academy’s vision is to celebrate cinema by hosting the annual
international film festival in Mumbai, India's film and entertainment capital.
