Kavosh: TV can make short films popular

2016-01-02

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Kavosh:  TV can make short films popular

Kavosh said to the Center for Conferences and Festivals of Howzeh Honari that short films are principally about the needs of society. "Issues like divorce, addiction, poverty and prostitution are untouched and sensitive subjects and filmmakers can work on them provided that they follow certain ideas and wisdom", he said.

Kavosh said an academic study or an experimental knowledge alone is not enough for making short movies. "First of all, the filmmaker must have cultural sensitivity about the subjects. Then he / she ought to make use of the motivation by developing ideas".

Director of the movie And emphasized on the potentials of movie theaters and national TV for helping people develop a taste for short films. He said "Once theaters were paid governmental subsidy in order to screen short films before showing the feature movies. This had a significant role in attracting audiences to short films".

Habib Kavosh highlighted the role of TV in making short films more popular and urged the national TV managers to support this form of movie. He also called for a closer cooperation between Iranian National TV and short film officials.

Director of the movie Circle X said film festivals with good policies and management would be useful. "Some organizations hold festivals in order to spend their cultural budget, thereby showing off as managing directors and attracting artists to their own policies via awarding them", he added.

"And sometimes several festivals pursue the same approach and do a parallel job. There should be cooperation for unity which will make them more magnificent and more influential", Kavosh said.

He also said "it is not acceptable that we make certain policies in one way and make art and cultural policies in an opposite way. There should be a kind of harmony. It is not acceptable to make an international initiation in order to accept movies from countries that train terrorists in the region. It is contradictory to our mottos."

He called for more categories in 100 Second Films Festival and said "managers should define minor categories and show a selection of longer movies from other festivals to attract a wider audience".