FILM TRADE BODIES MEET DR SANJAY MUKHERJEE, SEC, CULTURAL AFFAIRS

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FILM TRADE BODIES MEET DR SANJAY MUKHERJEE, SEC, CULTURAL AFFAIRS

Jyothi Venkatesh

Major stake holders of the Media and Entertainment Industry had been a part of a joint digital meeting organised with Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee – Secretary Cultural Affairs on the 28th May 2020. The Producer Guild of India (PGI) was represented by Shri Apoorva Mehta and Smt. Madhu Bhojwani. Federation of Western India Cine Employess (FWICE) was represented by Shri Ashoke Pandit – Chief Advisor, Shri B N Tiwari – President, & Shri Ashok Dubey – Hon Gen Secretary. Indian Motion Pictures Producer’s Association (IMPPA) was represented by Shri T P Aggarwal. Western India Film Producer’s Association (WIFPA) was represented by Shri Sangram Shirke and Shri Dharam Mehra. Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal (MCM) was represented by its President Shri Meghraj Bhosale. Shri Aadesh Bandekar was also an integral part of the meeting.

The meeting enabled all the stake holders of the Media and Entertainment Industry to discuss and decide upon the ways and means to work out a SOP to start the meeting with Government authorities. The meeting was truly encouraging and there were lot of fruitful conclusions pertaining to the future of the Entertainment Industry.

The following points were discussed in the meeting:

  1. Post Production activities should immediately start in line with all the health, safety and security norms and guidelines issued by the Government.
  1. A proper financial package to be worked out by the State Government to facilitate the Entertainment Industry.
  1. State Government should call for all the Insurance companies to come up with new ideas for designing suitable policies for the members of the entertainment Industry to cope with the COVID-19 disease.
  2. Premises owned by the State Government should be given Free of Cost to the Producers and the Production houses for carrying out shoots along with a facility of Single Window Permission.
  1. There should be No Rentals on the sets that are erected in the Filmcity which are lying unused due to the Lockdown and that after the Lockdown is over the premises in the Filmcity should be provided to the Producers and the Production houses with a very subsidized rate so as to cope with the losses incurred due to the lockdown.The subsidized rates shall be applicable till the city regains its normalcy.
  1. Until the city regains its normalcy, there should be regular intervention and interaction of the Government authorities in the functioning of the Media and Entertainment Industry.
  1. The SOP’s already submitted by all the stake holders of the Industry shall be reviewed by Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee (Chief Secretary Cultural Affairs) and presented to the State. He has assured that there have been serious discussions happening in the State Government pertaining to the resumption of works of the Media and Entertainment Industry. We sincerely thank Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee for sparing his valuable time and helping us to discuss and decide upon the Future of the Media and Entertainment industry and its workers.
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