Apple highlights four short films shot on iPhone 16 Pro Max and edited on MacBook Pro

The Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) has selected four up-and-coming creators for the second MAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone Program. This year, creators from MAMI will film on the iPhone 16 Pro Max and will edit the footage on M4 Max-powered MacBook Pros.

The inaugural edition of MAMI Select was a success with two of its short films earning accolades from the 2025 Critics’ Choice Awards India: Best Short Film, Best Director (Short Film) and Best Writing (Short Film).

The four filmmakers picked for this year’s MAMI Select are Amrita Bagchi, Rohin Raveendran Nair, Chanakya Vyas and Shalini Vijayakumar. They will be mentored by writer, director and actor Konkona Sen Sharma and several other icons of the Indian film industry.

“Shooting and editing within the Apple family of products gives you a stellar advantage: speed,” says writer-director Motwane, whose work in film and television includes Udaan and Black Warrant.

Amrita Bagchi filming Tinctoria

Amrita Bagchi is filming a psychological thriller titled Tinctoria, which is inspired by the indigo revolt in Bengal in 1859. Bagchi will lean on the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s Cinematic mode for the short film’s opening montage and has been making use of the 4K 120fps mode.

Filming Tinctoria on an iPhone 16 Pro Max • Editing it on a MacBook Pro

Rohin Raveendran Nair, director, writer and cinematographer is taking advantage of the iPhone’s compact size compared to traditional cameras and his short film, Kovarty, is filmed from the point of view of a typewriter (the film is described as a “love story tinged with magical realism”).

Rohin Raveendran Nair sets up a shot from inside a typewriter

Interestingly, Nair has chosen to film scenes from the typewriter in 4:3 aspect ratio to make them feel more like paper, while landscape shots will be in a cinematic 2:1 ratio.

The four short films from 2025 MAMI Select are available to watch for free on YouTube. Here is a playlist with their trailers first, below that is a playlist with the films themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries

And here the short films in full (each is around half an hour long):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries

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Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

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