Cinema Trust Manouchehr Shahsavari, secretary of the forty -third Fajr Film Festival, spoke at the online trust studio about how the event is held and its widespread margins.
“Soon the festival’s budget will be released soon, I think it was lower than in previous years,” he said. I can’t say the number. But I think about 60 billion tomans of budget was owned by this year’s festival. But I really don’t know the exact components.
He added: “For the first time, the Fajr Film Festival has a year without debt, because sometimes the Fajr Film Festival has been involved in financial issues until May and June of next year, I think the festival’s financial obligations will be summed up until mid -March.”
“This year, our staff, quality, but small, was a small number,” Shahsavari said. We had records at this year’s festival that can be reviewed. How many people were working in the field of film screenings in the past years (not just last year), and how many people were active this year, how much money was last year, with how much the festival’s money was held this year.
The festival secretary also said that this year the awards ratio generally increased to double. If we wanted to give a cash prize compared to the previous years, the festival’s budget was much less than the number I told you (about 60 billion tomans). But finally, we thought to keep the winner’s dignity as much as it could, we had other expenses, and the other point between the Simorgh Soda Awards and the Iranian Cinema Competition with documentary, short and publicity this year seems natural, and the awards are no longer the case.
The full text of this conversation can be read in the confidence yearbook, and the full version of this online conversation is published by Eid Days of Online Trust.