Jio MAMI festival to award excellence in digital content

To encourage young filmmakers using digital platform to tell stories, an award for excellence in digital content has been introduced in the 2017 edition of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.

The Award for Excellence in Digital Content has been created to provide a platform for young talent to showcase their storytelling abilities via short films, using the digital medium.

The first set of awards in this category, will be given at this year's edition of the MAMI Festival.

"We are privileged to introduce 'The Jio MAMI Reliance Foundation Award for Excellence in Digital Content'. We hope that this Award will encourage young talent to break the boundaries of their creative prowess and take Indian cinema to new and greater heights, especially in the digital space," Nita Ambani, the co-chairperson of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival said in a statement.

Twenty-five participants will be shortlisted and mentored by celebrated Indian filmmakers over two days. From these, the top ten will receive a prize money of Rs 2,50,000 each. The two best films will receive the JioMAMI Reliance Foundation Gold and Silver trophies at the Jio MAMI 2017 closing gala.

All the ten films will be premiered on Jio and will be showcased at the festival, it added.

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