I honestly presented my film to the festival
Farzad Mo’tamen announced that the film “Shabgard” had been rejected by the Fajr Festival selection committee, and said that he had applied for a public screening of his film.
Theater News Base: The filmmaker, who was applying for the 40th Fajr Film Festival for his latest film called “Shabgard”, said: “I honestly say that I presented” Shabgard “to the Fajr Film Festival, but they did not want it; There is no problem
At the same time, he added: “When we look at all the films submitted to the festival, the point that attracts attention is the fact that since 2007, a creeping attack has begun to remove some filmmakers and replace them with special and like-minded filmmakers.” And now it is reaching its full form. The unfortunate thing is that this attack on filmmakers is being carried out by the film organization, and given its large scale, I predict that these attacks will include actors. In fact, it is an attempt to unify everything, and in the meantime, whatever they do not understand or attack what is far from what they intend, it seems like a war at all.
The director of “All Night” and “Bright Nights”, which was nominated for an award in three seasons of the Fajr Film Festival, continued: “In China, it is important for filmmakers to be united because we do not have a” cinema house “to support. The cinema house is passive, it cannot unite us, and it has practically become one of the executive arms of the cinema organization; So the filmmakers themselves must unite and protest the removal, censorship and banning of their films. I am very happy that there were protests about the removal of “Killer and the Savage” from the festival, especially since some of these protests were made by the filmmakers themselves.
“I have applied for a license to release the film to the public,” Motaman said of his plans for “Night Watch.” I hope at least there is no problem because I made the film based on a script that was licensed and I did not change it.