cinema trust Recently, in a report that was sent to the media “by the Association of Independent Producers”, due to the priority of news values, a sentence that was often expressed by some government managers and now its strange design by a The organization or guild is surprising.
Some important points should not be neglected. One is that after the digital revolution in the cinema of the world and as a result in Iran, the boundary between being a cinematographic film and being a video film was completely lost.
We remember that the government trustees of the festival added a cinema-video section to Fajr in one or two periods of this event, due to the prevailing atmosphere of telefilming and making video films for broadcasting at the Video Media Institute, to create this demarcation. The incident that led to the establishment of the failed “Yas” festival and…
In that period, as in recent years, the important demand of cinematographers and work owners (especially producers) was to get rid of the license to make films, and it is strange that now at this time and on the eve of the announcement of the names of the festival films and the establishment of this event, suddenly a trade union organization The private sector sends a text to the media for publication, the words of which are part of “threat to pursue the possible competition of non-cinematic licensed films in Fajr Festival”!
In all these years, we have had prominent and important works of Iranian cinema that have been licensed for video, which the “producers of Iranian cinema” especially of its “independent” genre, know this statistic better. This is where the distinction between a professional producer and a professional producer, a producer with only a card, a producer with knowledge and an illiterate producer, and the like, becomes more important than “cinematic and non-cinematic license” because an expert producer and a director with a license, a product with a license They can present a video in the world and a producer with no knowledge and no knowledge, with a license to make movies And all government facilities do not reach anywhere, but the fact that they have not reached and unfortunately there are many examples…
The strange point of the story is that the Association of Independent Producers, before the publication of this report, had repeatedly announced and sometimes shouted their opposition to any production license, whether for video, non-cinematic or cinematic, but the text of this report is set as if another association wrote it!
Obviously, in the difficult situation of today’s cinema, especially at a time when “box office” and “comedy” rule, the process of finding a professional producer is often difficult due to its high risk. With this description, the other meaning of the sentence in the “suddenly published” statement of the independents is that a young man who hardly made a valuable film with a video production license in a city, is accused of “crime!” The fact that he does not have a license to make a movie, he is deprived of the right to see his work in Fajr and to compete for an award from this event…
It is true that the root of many wrong behaviors and decisions is the lack of law in the cinema and of course the lack of up-to-date rules and guidelines, but in the meantime, the job of the guild is to play in the field of cinematographers or to play in the opposite field?!
Naturally, these contradictions would not be surprising if it was heard from the words of a government administrator in the past, who on the one hand spoke of “cultural justice” and on the other hand was determined to remove “film without production license”, but this is the point of view of a union that consists of He is one of the activists of the private sector and has the title of independent on his forehead, it is not acceptable and it seems highly suspicious.
The last word is that, despite this stance and probably similar stances in the future from other currents and media, if this happens in the 43rd Fajr Film Festival, it should be taken as a good omen, because it is a prelude to a correct launch. will be