All woman jury for 12th Mumbai Film Festival

Jane Campion, the Oscar-winning filmmaker will be heading an all-women jury which will also include South Indian actress Suhasini Mani Ratnam at the 12th Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) international film festival.The other panellists will include Tanya Seghatchian, Samira Makhmalbaf and Yoon Jeong-Hee.


Jane Campion is an Academy Award winne. She is a Hollywood-based filmmaker, screen writer and producer. This talented lady had also shot the movie "Holy Smoke" starring Kate Winslet in India. Srinivasan Narayan. the festival director said that Jane Campion may also conduct a master class.

Suhasini Maniratnam is a National Film Award-winning Indian actress. She is a director and producer also. She is wife of celebrated director, Maniratnam who has directed various movies like Roja, Bombay, Dil Se, Yuva etc. The couple runs the production company Madras Talkies. In fact Suhasini is the niece of Tamil film maker and superstar Kamal Hassan. She is also a trained costume designer, cinematographer, hair stylist, and the first female graduate of the Madras Film Institute. Suhasini made her film debut in 1980 with the Tamil film Nenjathai Killathe.