A movie director’s emphasis on the need for government support to prevent cinemas from closing
A producer and cinema owner said: The continuation of the current trend of sales in cinemas will lead to layoffs and closing of theaters, and for this reason, it is necessary for the government to allocate special support to cinemas, just like during the Corona era.
Charso Press: Ali Sartipi, who recently received a license to make a film called “Ham Anga” directed by Behrouz Shoaibi and is trying to bring it to the Fajr Film Festival, said about the state of cinema these days: “Unfortunately, cinema is not in a good state.” During the Corona era, we were facing unavoidable conditions and the government also provided assistance. However, the important point about the stagnation of cinema during the corona era was that long before the epidemic, the condition of the cinema was good and we had reserves, but now the cinemas wanted to get rid of the corona and get a new life when the recent events took place and caused a big blow to the theaters. He brought cinema and people.
Referring to the conversations he had with his colleagues in the field of cinematography and film distribution and that they all have common concerns, he added: The sale of films in recent weeks has perhaps reached one-seventh of what it was before these events, and now it is a critical situation, especially for the ruling cinema halls. If it continues, we will have to adjust the number of halls and also the forces.
The director of “Koresh” cinema campus stated that about four to five thousand people are directly and indirectly related to cinema, and said: During this period, we had complexes that had 10 to 12 theaters, and about half of them were forcibly closed. For this reason, we ask the President, the Ministry of Guidance and the Cinema Organization to help us in this crisis.
Brigadier General said: Ministry of Guidance in the areas of hall construction, production and holding of festivals should prioritize the preservation of halls. I am sure that cinema owners in the artistic and municipal fields are also facing problems and they are the current main priority of cinemas because they may go to temporary closure and then complete closure.
About how broadcasting football matches can help to improve cinema conditions, he said: In special circumstances and in a period of one month, this issue can be helpful and act as a home for cinema, which I hope will happen, but our situation in cinemas is not good. . I think cinema is one of the most transparent places where you can check its income status at the moment and it is quite clear what days it is going through.
In response to how he thinks that if a good movie is released, how effective it might be in improving the condition of cinemas, Brigadier also stated: I think that if we have a good movie, people will gradually return to the cinema, but now we are in a rut; On the one hand, the film owners do not allow their films to be screened due to the existing conditions, because they do not trust the conditions, and on the other hand, the Ministry of Education should help the films to be screened and provide subsidies. In the previous government and during the corona era after the reopening of cinemas, some films were given help to be screened, but this has not happened now, and I think that if Ershad gives guarantees to the owners of the films so that good films can be screened, the situation will improve little by little.