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11TH MUMBAI FILM FESTIVAL

Today onwards, India’s film capital Mumbai became the attracting center of all movie lovers around the world. 11th edition of Mumbai Film festival was started on today in Mumbai and it will end on 5th November 2009. Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) is the organizer of this glamorous film festival and more than 200 films from 56 countries will be screened in this edition. American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s movie “The Informant” is the debut movie and Greek director Theo Angelopoulus’s movie “The Dust of Time” will be the last movie of this festival. The ‘11th Mumbai Film Festival’ will honour two extremely talented film-makers from India and abroad. Indian actor-producer Shashi Kapoor will be honored by ‘Indian Lifetime Achievement Award’ and legendary Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos will be honored by ‘International Lifetime Achievement Award’ in this edition of film festival. Many famous film makers and Bollywood stars are expected to give a touch of glamour to this beautiful event. This year, MFF give whopping cash awards. It will give 150,000 US dollars for best debutant film director and Golden Gateway India trophy for the best film and the Silver Gateway India and cash prize of USD 50 000 for the Jury Grand Prize. It also introducing a USD 20000 Audience Choice Award. Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara, American screenwriter and director Paul Schrader,Iranian New Wave filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Indian film director Shaji Karun, Philippines film director Brillante Mendoza and Irene Bignardi from Italy are the jury members of this festival. So get ready for watching this amazing film festival.

MUMBAI FILM FESTIVAL

‘Mumbai film festival’ is the festival of documentary, short and animation films. It was started on 1990 and held in every year in Mumbai. Earluer, it was organized by the ‘Film Division’ of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of Government of India. But this year it is organized by Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) with the support of Reliance Big Entertainment, a division of Reliance ADA Group. Mumbai Film Festival programme is divided into five sections: International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors, World Cinema, Indian Showcase, Mumbai Dimensions and Retrospectives. Now this film festival comes to the level of international and hope that this festival would compare with Cannes and Berlin film festivals in the future.

SAMSUNG I8000 OMNIA II

Samsung introduced their new windows mobile powered smart phone the i8000 Omnia II in India with a lot of surprising features for mobile users. This phone is a full touch screen device that has a spec sheet.  This phone consists of a huge 3.7-inch AMOLED display with a resolution 800×480 and displays 65k colors. The phone also offers support for micro SD cards of up to 32GB and 8GB of internal memory. It also features a 5 Megapixel camera and high quality video recording with 720×480 resolution at 30fps. It is slightly below the Omnia HD that can record 720p videos. The phone is a full 3G device with exhaustive network support. It also features a host of motion enabled features including 3D photo album, video library, music library, browser bookmarks and FM Radio. The other features included in this phone are FM radio with RDS, FM Recording and availability of a 3.5mm jack. This phone comes with a powerful processor that is Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor, dedicated graphics accelerator. It has 256M ROM , 256MB RAM , and has a micro-SD/HC expansion slot for added memory. It also has assisted GPS, WiFi b & g, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, USB 2.0, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer. The phone is priced at Rs. 28,990 in the country. It is very tall, 6mm more so than its predecessor, but it is narrow enough to fit comfortably into the hand and skinny enough to slide into your pocket, mostly unnoticed.

SAMSUNG

Samsung is one of the largest electronics companies and its headquarters is situated in Seocho Samsung Town in Seoul, South Korea.The Samsung group of the company was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chull. In 1951, it was incorporated as Samsung Corporation. The global market leader Samsung’s important brands are Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering & Construction. The Samsung electronics company was founded in 1969 and this company originally manufacturing electronic appliances such as TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners and washers. The company had more than 60 products, including DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory and hard drives, digital displays, home electronics, home cinema systems, set-top boxes and projectors, mobile devices such as mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and camcorders, computing products such as monitors, laptops, laser printers and fax machines and home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines. The company was founded a major global construction company in 1974. The company is a top rated electronic and IT brand in various reports. In 2006, Business Week rated Samsung as 20th on the Top 100 global brands and the Number 2 in the electronics industry. Business Week also ranked the company as 20 in a ranking of the “Top 100 Most Innovative Companies”. In January 2007, Brand Finance ranked the company as the Number 1 global brand in electronics. The company’s mobile phones became the world leader, and the year by year it introduced new model handset in the world . From 1990 until today, Samsung continues to make a great history in mobile phone Industry.