A seminar on film on Saturday highlighted exploration of content for making films for the future generation and discussed how the film industry would shape over time in the context of rapidly changing scape of audio-visual media.
The event, held at the Bangladesh Film Archive in Agargaon in the capital and organised by the Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies also featured screening of a children film Aam Kathaler Chhuti, produced and directed by Mohammad Nuruzzaman.
At the event, filmmaker and Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies vice-president Aktanin Khair Tanin presented the keynote paper titled 鈥楩ilms for future: Bangladesh perspective鈥�. Federation鈥檚 general secretary Mohammad Nurullah moderated the programme chaired by its president Zahirul Islam Kochi. Bangladesh Film Archive director general Md Abdul Jalil and director Farhana Rahman, among others, spoke on the topic.
Aktanin Khair Tanin said that filmmakers needed to delve much more into the content and technologies of films before the fifth industrial revolution happened.
In the era of virtual reality, artificial intelligence and micro-length filmmaking like in reel, the filmmakers needed much to think about the contents of future filmmakers, Tanin said, adding that the realities of gender and climate change were never adequately portrayed in Bangladeshi films.
Most Bangladeshi filmmakers told stories of the city life, although聽 most people lived outside cities, she said.
Bangladesh Film Archive director general Md Abdul Jalil said that after the student-led mass uprising the archive worked with the stakeholders.
鈥極nly 50 cinema halls are now open round the year that indicates that the film industry lacks patronage,鈥� Abdul Jalil said, adding that if contents were not audience friendly, technology only could not save a film industry.聽 聽
Farhana Rahman urged the national film archive to work with film societies.
Mohammad Nuruzzaman said that future films would break the slavery of capitalism, allowing independent cinema to reach their own audience.
鈥楾he film Aam Kathaler Chhuti took three years to release because our casts and crews were non-professional and we chose only summer for shooting,鈥� Nuruzzaman said, adding that they worked hard to maintain the 1980s landscape in the cinema.
Zahirul Islam Kochi said that the film federation, a platform of 45 film societies, planned to work with every educational institution across the country.
