The North American Marathi Film Association ( NAFA) was launched last year by renowned Marathi film producer Mr. Abhijit Gholap, who had produced films like ‘Deool’ and ‘Bharatiya’. Last year, under his leadership a film festival of Marathi films was held in San Jose, California . Now, this year Mr. Gholap has announced the 2^nd NAFA Marathi film festival at the same venue on 25^th, 26^th and  27^th July 2025, which will be held on the style of Hollywood awards.

Mr. Gholap has been making efforts to reach out Marathi films to the population of Marathi speaking people in North America and Canada. With his efforts every month atleast one Marathi film is released in this region. Mr. Gholap has a dream of creating a Marathi film industry in USA on the lines of Hollywood and accordingly, steps have already been taken with a team of 500 people coming forward to make this possible.