{"id":78854,"date":"2021-11-25T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=78854"},"modified":"2021-11-25T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:17:24","slug":"finally-cinema-is-an-industry-by-chandran-rutnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/finally-cinema-is-an-industry-by-chandran-rutnam\/","title":{"rendered":"FINALLY&#8230;CINEMA IS AN INDUSTRY-by Chandran Rutnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">FINALLY&#8230;CINEMA IS AN INDUSTRY-by Chandran Rutnam<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78855\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kadawunu-Poronduwa-e1637867473183.jpg\" alt=\"Kadawunu Poronduwa\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/opinion\/FINALLY-CINEMA-IS-AN-INDUSTRY\/172-225183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dailymirror<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A scene from the film \u2018Kadawunu Poronduwa\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-mumbai-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_19517057dd.jpg\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Finally, Sri Lanka has joined the world of international cinema and accepted the obvious fact that Cinema is an INDUSTRY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We were forty years behind but that is a norm for Sri Lankan cinema. We were ten years behind in our entry to digital projection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIt has also been observed that the cinema industry in most of the countries in the world has been improved with the recognition of cinema as an industry.\u201d (Daily Mirror\u00a0 17 November 2021)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Where have we been? Sleeping in the trenches?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The motion picture business is a multi million dollar business throughout the world EXCEPT SRI LANKA. Why?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In ALL our neighbouring countries, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam, the business is booming.\u00a0 Better than it has ever been, even after the pandemic. What are we doing wrong? Why didn\u2019t we ask our successful neighbours how to do it, or address the issues in an unbiased, impersonal and logical manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The answer is very simple: Personal agendas within agendas and of course, the Sri Lankan brand of Jealousy and Envy embedded in our genes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The manufacturing and marketing of films, like the manufacturing of any product is primarily an INDUSTRY and\u00a0 must come under the Ministry of Industries. A selected film, if considered of\u00a0 cultural value, then that particular item could\u00a0 be transferred to the Ministry of Culture, to enhance, promote or exhibit, if desired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78856 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cinema.jpg\" alt=\"cinema\" width=\"320\" height=\"680\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">DISTRIBUTION of the PRODUCT must be at the discretion of the Cinema Owner (the shop owner). It is up to him to decide whether it\u2019s marketable or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">If the government wishes to accommodate loss making films often referred to erroneously as \u2018Art films and Award Winners\u2019 the government (Ministry of Culture) must take the credit and the loss. They could, if they wish, place it for exhibition in their special cinema circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The cinema owner must not be forced to distribute any potentially loss making \/ non marketable product and take a loss. It is, \u201cMY SHOP AND I DECIDE WHAT I WISH TO SELL IN MY SHOP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">FOUR IMPORTANT FACTORS IN SHOW BUSINESS<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">PRODUCTION &#8212; EXHIBITION &#8212; PROFIT &#8212; QUALITY<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">SHOW: It is a business that produces a product that people wish to pay and watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">BUSINESS: The fact that it covers the cost and makes a profit so that the investor will continue to invest in the next film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">PRODUCTION: The liberty and the funding to produce a film with the cooperation of the authorities with available equipment and a choice of talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">EXHIBITION: The liberty to exhibit the completed film in any cinema that wishes to screen it for any agreed period of time, at the discretion of the cinema owner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">PROFIT: The division of revenue as agreed between the exhibitor and the Producer of the film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">QUALITY: The Quality determines the desire for the exhibitor to screen the film expecting to make a profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The expectation of profit which is determined by the cinema owner who decides whether to engage with the film or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">If the quality of the product is not worthy and therefore not accepted, the filmmaker has to find another outlet that is non profit. (Possibly a government sponsored mechanism.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In the next attempt by the filmmaker, the film may be of better quality with better revenue expectations by the cinema owner or another rejection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">QUALITY IMPROVES WITH COMPETITION, NOT BY PROTECTIONISM THROUGH INFLUENCE OR ANY OTHER NEFARIOUS ACTIVITY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">AND THE AWARD GOES TO&#8230;..!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Best film very rarely wins the BEST PICTURE AWARD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Best Director very rarely wins the BEST DIRECTOR AWARD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">All Jurors at the Awards are influenced to a great degree on personal relationships&#8230;..respect, adulation, friendships, animosities, personal events and circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A thesis could be written on the deplorable, dishonesty and sometimes vulgarities involved in the award process. There are many very notable, glaring instances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There are numerous Award giving Film Festivals emerging with various sub-categories of the \u201cBEST PICTURE\u201d which are too many to mention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Awards at Film Festivals are fun to watch and generates publicity for the films that win the award, but not to be taken seriously and definitely not to be taken as a monetarily valuable asset because it is the paying audience that is the real Jury that may sit through the movie with pain\u00a0 or walk away from the cinema in disappointment and dismay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This is not to say that there are no valuable award winning films&#8230;..but this is a very rare commodity. The cinema owners must not be forced to bear the financial loss of an award winning \u2018dud\u2019. It is a well known fact that several award winning directors and their loss making producers are estranged and no longer friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">IF WE PUSH THE MAJOR CIRCUITS TO PROMOTE AN INFERIOR AWARD WINNING FILM AND FORCE THE CIRCUITS NOT TO REMOVE THE FILM FOR A PERIOD OF TIME WITH HARDLY AN AUDIENCE, OUR FILMMAKERS WILL NOT UPGRADE THE QUALITY AND COMMERCIAL VALUE OF THEIR FILMS.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">COMPETITION STIMULATES THE MIND AND EFFORT TO KEEP DOING BETTER AND THEREBY RAISE THE BENCHMARK\u00a0 QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As an \u2018Industry\u2019 the cinema owners must be encouraged to give a better ambiance and a better service. They must be given the liberty to exhibit any film in any language which they feel will fill their cinemas for their survival. The survival of the cinemas is of paramount importance if the cinema industry is to prosper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Our local Sinhala and Tamil films must upgrade their quality and audience appeal to compete for exhibition in the cinemas. We have the talent&#8230;we have the technology and most of all, we now have a worldwide audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In the true definition of the cinema, it has finally found its place as an industry.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Better late than never.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINALLY&#8230;CINEMA IS AN INDUSTRY-by Chandran Rutnam Source:Dailymirror A scene from the film \u2018Kadawunu Poronduwa\u2019 &nbsp; Finally, Sri Lanka has joined the world of international cinema and accepted the obvious fact that Cinema is an INDUSTRY. We were forty years behind but that is a norm for Sri Lankan cinema. 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