The record of the first High Council of Cinema / Rouhani did not want to attend the council

Theater News Base: Mohsen Ali Akbari, producer of cinema and member of the first High Council of Cinema, said about the formation of this council: We were holding a cinema. In these meetings, the problems and issues in the cinema community were discussed and its output was reviewed in the presence of the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Eventually Its approvals were implemented in the presence of the President.

He continued: During the activity of the Supreme Council of Cinema, good things happened that Including It can be pointed out that we in the council were able to persuade the government to become “golden insurance” artists, although this happened. But With the end of the tenth government, the “golden insurance” was abolished and replaced by another insurance called “Sarmad”, which did not meet the needs of artists. When the maximum price of the dollar was 2,000 tomans, all the residents of the cinema were paid 600,000 tomans for food. Such actions specially In the field of livelihood and housing, Mehr was a good measure that was implemented by the Supreme Cinema Council.

The filmmaker stressed that another issue that was considered in the High Council of Cinema was the initial discussion of establishing the Veteran Artists ‘Institute: the institute continues to work, discussing artists’ taxes and legal problems in This was also the case in the council and was reformed with the presence and consent of the president.

Ali Akbari said: It seems At the moment For a series of macro topics and with To consider Issues that are very lacking in the cinema, the re-formation of this council can be very effective, for example, a film production license is issued. But After production, the screening license will not be issued for any reason. This shows that the law has problems in some cases, Actually When the production license is issued, the officials are obliged to issue the film screening license, now imagine that the screening license is also issued. But Eventually The film is blocked, like the movie “Resurrection”, which was blocked for various reasons. These are big issues and problems that if in the Supreme Council of Cinema It also If it is not presented in the presence of the president, it will be difficult to resolve it. Imagine some of the great authorities of imitation who are against making a film or series about the imams for any reason, it is much better if these issues and problems are raised by the president with the authorities of imitation.

“I believe in creating one,” he said the Council In the seminary and study the problems of this Hand With the presence of the representative of the seminary and the Supreme Council of Cinema, acceptable results can be achieved Eventually Become a law so that movies can reach the release stage by following these rules. These events and decisions in Iranian cinema must be taken at the macro level and in the presence of the President, and the Supreme Council of Cinema can be the best place for these purposes.

The producer of the movie “Extradition” continued: The meetings of the Supreme Council of Cinema were initially held in the presence of the then President, who was then Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But With the coming to power of Hassan Rouhani’s government, the president was reluctant to attend these meetings, and that was not good at all, because the president is the president of everyone. Why should the president attend an Olympic or Paralympic meeting, for example? But Do not have a meeting with the representatives of the artists, I think held Do not Such meetings with artists were somewhat unkind to them. Actually If the Supreme Cinema Council was not dissolved, the government could have implemented some of the previous council approvals or new approvals for the cinema in these 8 years, which unfortunately did not happen.

In response to a question about the extent to which the president’s presence in the Supreme Cinema Council influenced the influence of the government’s view on cinema, he said: “At that time, when Ahmadinejad was president of the Supreme Cinema Council, Witness We did not have a government view of cinema, even once too Witness We did not want the president to comment on making a film with a specific theme, because we did not go into details at all. Actually In these meetings, the president listened to the problems of the cinema and asked the members for a suitable solution. The council also presented the desired solutions and Eventually The president approved the solutions.

In the end, Ali Akbari said: “I think the members of the Supreme Council of Cinema in the new term should include representatives from Industries Producers, Directors and Writers Association, 2 representatives from the head of the Cinema Organization and 2 representatives from the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.