Artistic Director of Mumbai Film Festival and Mumbai Academy Of Moving Image, Smriti Kiran is a creator and host of the clutter breaking digital properties Dial M For Films, Writers' Block, Storytellers Are Us, How to Build A Woman and the newly launched on-ground initiative Maitri: The Female First Collective. She has served on multiple international film festival juries, conducted and participated in filmmaker conversations and curated for global platforms. She wrote the screenplay book of the record-breaking film 3 Idiots and produced the screenplay books of auteur extraordinaire Guru Dutt.