The Mumbai International Film Festival is the world’s biggest non-feature film festival and the prevalent genre look to be animation. In the MIFF (2014), apart from 18 animation short films, 112 animation movies from other nations such as Bulgaria, France, Canada and Estonia will be shown and over 400 movies from 35 nations will be showcased.

Desai, the animator-film-maker, who has made various animations and special effect-based movies for ads and corporate films has been on juries at the New York Festival and won the awards at the World fest Houston, the Tehran Film Festival and the Prix Danube Festival.

Shilpa Ranade praised animator-film-maker globally, her animation movie Goopi Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa got a standing ovation from legend Costa Gavras at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) festival last year, and she is a member of the jury at MIFF 2014.