Head of the Cinema Organization of the Arts: The use of young filmmakers is valuable to us

According to the Fars News Agency cinema correspondent, a press conference was held by Hamid Reza Jafarian, the head of the Cinema Organization of the Arts Center, this afternoon (Tuesday, January 19).

At the beginning of the meeting, Hadi Firoozmandi, the head of public relations for the Arts Center Cinema Organization, said: “The Arts Center Cinema Organization started working in the early 1960s, and we have been operating for four decades.” In this session, we want to talk about films in the field of art at the Fajr Film Festival.

Cinematic management of the art field with three drivers

Then Hamidreza Jafarian, head of the Cinema Organization of the Arts, said: “We are in the new era of management of the Cinema Organization of the Arts and we have considered several drivers for this new era, first the flow of content and development of storytelling and adaptation power, the second drivers of human capital Artists and third drivers are directing the flow of capital towards production.

He continued: “Considering these axes, we tried to have diversity of genres in our policies.” The issue that has always been valuable to us is the use of young filmmakers. We tried to make our works feel good for the audience of Iranian cinema, so we feel we have produced worthy works.

The head of the Cinema Organization of the Arts Center said: As you know, we have four films in the Fajr Film Festival, all of which have been sent to the festival secretariat. “Anti” is a political-historical film that deals with the character of Martyr Beheshti. Our second work is “Hanas”, which deals with the events of the 60’s with a female narrative, which I think has become a good film.

Jafarian stated: This year we were able to have it only with the Farabi Cinema Foundation. “Girls’ Band” was the first film we produced with Farabi, and “Shadruvan” is another collaboration film with Farabi and tells a sweet and family story. We will like a movie in the future with Hadi Moghadam.

He continued: “Contrary to popular belief, not all of our works are about the 60s.” One of our missions is to produce a film about the Holy Defense, and this year we have a film about the Holy Defense. Only one of our films is considered a history from which one can get the impression of the day.

We did not have a good story about Corona

“We have not yet come up with a good story about Corona,” said the head of the Arts Center Cinema Organization about the production of the film on Corona. Our films are not banned and the films we make are not banned. Regarding “watching this film is a crime”, we did not have such a ban, its screening was postponed for only one year. Regarding the film “Expediency”, this film is not a ban, only the previous government did not want us to screen it in its time. Some agencies also have hints about this film that we are discussing.

He added: “One of the events that closed our hands for the screening was Corona, and when the screening conditions occur, the screening line is crowded.” We have not had any unfair treatment of our films in our cinemas, sometimes filmmakers have requests that are not easy for us to accept. No one can force a cinematographer to have one more chance movie, one less chance movie, that is up to the cinematographer.

Move the art field to reach 400 cinemas

Jafarian said about the development of cinemas in the field of art: The development of cinemas in the field of art is at the disposal of Bahman Sabz Institute. We plan to reach 400 cinemas. The field of art for showing cinematic works is subject to the laws of the Ministry of Culture and Guidance. If a film is not shown in theaters of the constituency, it must have been dealt with legally.

He pointed out: At one time, 15 years of cinemas were entrusted to the field of art, during these years, the field of art tried to reconstruct these cinemas. There are no cinemas in many cities, we are trying to establish new cinemas in these cities with the participation of the private sector.

We behave legally

“We have the Azadi Cinema Campus with the participation of the municipality. Our goal is to increase this kind of interaction and participation,” said the cinema director. We believe in one standard, and that is the Council for the Licensing of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The show’s union council decides on how to screen and how many films are on the screen, and we do not interfere.

Jafarian announced about the new works of the art field: We have participated in the production of several series, the production of which will begin soon. Shahid Avini Institute and Falagh Institute are among the institutions with which we will soon participate.

The importance of the protagonist and children and adolescent cinema

He said: We do not lack good artists in our country; But when we get movies that we have to spend tens of billions of tomans to produce, we may not be able to afford such expenses. The Cinema Organization of the Arts has professional interventions in the production of its films, for example, it was a sequence that I saw that was not produced according to the script, we came in and told them to shoot the sequence again. The central hero and the issues of children and adolescents are important to us and we try to make our works have a sense of hope.

The head of the Cinema Organization of the Arts Center said: “We wanted to have the first film this year as well; But the circumstances did not allow us to introduce a filmmaker to Iranian cinema. During production, the field of art has had its ups and downs over the years. We want art films to return to their good old days, and we think we have been able to take a step in that direction with our work this year.

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