50% share of the producers should be provided from Fajr tickets/cinema security

Charso Press: Only 14 days are left for the 41st edition of Fajr Film Festival and the names of the films that are supposed to be present in this edition of the festival have not yet been published. This is while the secretariat of the festival emphasized that the films in this period of the festival are going to be shown in the centers of different provinces of the country.

Of course, the screening of films in the Fajr Film Festival has been widely implemented for several years, although at first the implementation of such a plan was opposed by some producers because they believed that screening films in other cities during the Fajr Film Festival could cause a downfall. The audience will be public at the time of the screening. But in the end, this plan was accepted and the films were screened in the country with a certain number of screenings.

In this period of Fajr Film Festival, as in previous years, the films will still be shown in the centers of the provinces, there is a possibility that like in the previous periods, 16 films will be shown in the center of each province, and for each film there will be 3 screenings. has been taken

Another issue is the payment of a percentage of movie ticket sales during the 41st edition of Fajr Film Festival to the film owners, according to the previous editions, 50% of the total ticket sales across the country will be allocated to the film producer.

Of course, we should also keep in mind that films are usually screened in cities a few days after the start of the screening in Tehran, during the Fajr Film Festival. As we saw this happen last year.

Another point that Fajr Film Festival organizers should consider is the issue of film smuggling during the screening of films in different cities, which can become a problem for the festival secretariat.

Last year, although in small numbers, we saw that the screen versions of a number of films were released in the virtual space; This itself caused a lot of damage to these films. Of course, at the same time, it became clear which city the smuggled version of the film, which was of course recorded with a mobile phone, low quality and from the screen, was for.

We hope that the cinema organization, in cooperation with the Cinematographers’ Association, will provide conditions so that we will no longer witness the smuggling of films from the festival even when it is not clear when the film in question is going to be released to the public.