21. 03. 2013

SPS’ PROPOSAL FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY FINANCING SOLUTION

Belgrade, March 21, 2013 (Blic) - SPS' Council for Culture launched an initiative to amend the Law on Cinematography with the aim to include provisions to stimulate the quality of cinematography in Serbia.

The proposal was initiated by the film producer and member of the National Council for Culture Misa Mogorovic and screenwriter and film director Srdjan Dragojevic.

"Legal responsibility of TV broadcasters to participate in the production of domestic cinematography through RBA and RATEL should refer to the stimulation of quality and success of films with the highest ratings and those that represented our country at A-category film festivals and have won prizes. This way, this legal obligation will not be perceivet as a tax, but as means to stimulate those films the broadasters would earn the most by airing them", says in the statement.

Darko Bajic, Chairman of the Film Center Managing Board, did not want to comment the proposal of SPS.

"There are competent institutions in this country responsible for producing the strategy of planning of legal regulation of cinematography - the Minsitry of Culture and Film Center of Serbia. So Dragojevic and Mogorovic should sit down with us to directly discuss the Law on Cinematography, instead of doing it in the media", Bajic told the daily Blic.