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Kathmandu. Exhibition organization prior to the screening of the film Registration with Film Association and Producers Association is mandatory After being done, some filmmakers are unhappy about it. They termed it as ‘anti-creativity’ and ‘unconstitutional step’.
Director and screenwriter Manoj Pandit commented that the decision of syndicators in the cinema sector is being rushed and it is unconstitutional. He says that the organizations formed for the rights related to cinema have become the rulers themselves and started curbing them.
Pandit writes, ‘It won’t be long before another Urdi is issued saying that to direct a film, the permission of the Directors Association, the permission of the Actors Association to act, the permission of the cinematographer to shoot and the editor to edit the film should be obtained from the Technical Association. The organizations formed for the benefit of the working people related to the cinema, considering themselves as the rulers and moving towards curbing them, is a backward attitude. In the cinema sector, the decision of the syndicator is being confused, which is unconstitutional.’
Director Deepak Rauniyar has opposed the decision of the producers’ association. Stating that the decision is unacceptable, Rauniyar said it is unconstitutional.
Producer Ramkrishna Pokharel has accused the Producers Association and Movie Association of always being active in reducing the morale of creative young and independent filmmakers in Nepal. He opposed it and commented that it was created with the intention of making the system into a syndicate.
‘They have never done progressive work. They have tried to suppress new voices and new options in the film industry. The time has come to raise a collective and strong voice against these old ideas to save our freedom as filmmakers in this country,” he wrote.
Sulakshan Bharti, the director of this year’s hit film ‘Boksi Ko Ghar’, has said that art and literature should be freed from politics and cannot be curbed by building a power center.
But Gopal Kayastha, working group coordinator on behalf of Film Association and Uday Subba, working group coordinator on behalf of Producers Association, said that such a rule is necessary to regulate the current situation. They said that such a rule had to be brought because of the tendency to announce the screening date of their own films, try to remove them from the theaters and come to the organization if there is a problem.
On Tuesday, it was agreed between the working groups of the two organizations that when the distributor registers the film with the film association, the recommendation of the producer association must also be submitted.
