MAMI’s Mumbai Film Festival treats media like filth, and then denies accreditation
ScreenShots from the MAMI web site and details about the (now deleted) Registration Google Form, for PRESS Accreditation on the Mumbai Film Festival, October 19-24.
All clicked round 12.45 pm-1.45 pm, on 20 October 2024.
You must undergo greater than a dozen phases earlier than your utility is even accepted by the Festival authorities. Getting Accreditation is one other story altogether.
Read on.
Please ignore the empty faces, that are the results of totally different codecs pasted on a Word web page
Press Quota will need to have been exhausted by now, however after this display screen, you had been led to a Google kind. But they do have my profile on a web page entitled MyMAMI, and right here it’s. It reveals that I’ve been attending MAMI over time, and that my credentials are subsequently saved, to make it simpler to fil the shape.
- Next web page
- Since I don’t need to Change my Password, I click on on the Personal Profile, and that is what I see.
- A.
8.B.
In the Google kind, they ask you your deal with, your Editor’s title, your publishing platform. How lengthy have you ever been a movie journalist 0-1 years/1-5 years/5-10 years. Incidentally, there isn’t any possibility of 55 years, which is the place I come from.
They additionally ask you your fb, X, Instagram and YouTube credentials, your e mail deal with, telephone quantity, and three clippings of your writings on cinema in pdf kind (many senior journalists, and few junior ones too, don’t save their writings within the pdf format, so that they have to seek out their writings on the net and save them as pdf or scan them in pdf format.
The {photograph} they need is of specific specs, strictly, when it comes to pixels and dpi. It takes ages to add.
After all that is accepted and submitted, you’ll get a affirmation of Registration. But you can additionally get a mail instantly afterwards, saying that your Application has been rejected as a result of it was “incorrect”. It shouldn’t be talked about what was incorrect about it and how may that be rectified. And, in any case, what’s the subsequent step? Upload the shape once more?
Taking the most effective wager, you add the shape once more. This time you get a reply that has a Booking Id and a QR Code and are instructed to gather your Badge throughout working hours (10 am to five pm), from the venue (and it issues least how far you need to journey to achieve the venue). You go there, queue up, and when your quantity comes, you’re instructed that your Application has been rejected. The Booking Id and QR Code add as much as nothing. There must be one other e mail, after that, to substantiate your accreditation, or deny it. But you probably have acquired neither, there may be nothing the BookMyShow employees, which handles registrations on the venue, can do about it.
Undaunted, you go residence, and strive and try a 3rd time. Now, Registrations below the Press class are closed.
A present ‘fiction’
“AND THE AWARD FOR
THE CENTURY’S MOST CALLOUS, CARELESS, MEDIA-UNFRIENDLY, MEDIA HATING, MEDIA BAITING, MEDIA HUMILIATING, COMPULSIVELY LYING, STALLING, HOODWINKING AND THROWING DUST INTO THE EYES OF THE MEDIA’
FILM FESTIVAL,
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND,
GOES TO
MAMI’S MUMBAI FILM FESTIVAL, 2024
(Cheers….oops, loud BOOS)
Will Mr. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur (Director), Ms. Aditi (Creative Director), Mr. Prathamesh Kulkarni, (Account Director, PR Pundit Havas Red), Mr. Shams (designation unknown) and the un-identified Press staff [email protected], all rise to simply accept their coveted reward, which is within the form of a GRANITE COFFIN , and carry it to its resting place.”
“Sorry, phrase has simply are available that the staff has requested for 3 COFFINS, however being ‘busy’ with being dedicated to creating persevering with grave errors on the two venues of the festivals and the registered workplace, and subsequently, unable to raise a finger, not to mention granite COFFINs, they’ve requested that these be carried over and positioned on the following three places:
1. Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) (their workplace)
404, VIP Plaza
Veera Industrial Estate, Off Link Road
Andheri West, Mumbai
Maharashtra – 400053
2. Regal Cinema, Colaba (a pageant venue)
3. PVR-INOX Juhu (the opposite pageant venue)
Their request is into consideration.”
