Directors and producers have said that if they do not understand the process of film screening, there will be problems in the screening. They expressed this opinion in an interaction titled 'Why is there always confusion in film screening' organized under the 8th Nepal International Film Festival (NIF). In the discussion, actress and director Rekha Thapa, producer Rabindrasingh Baniyan, distributor Gopalkaji Kayastha and exhibitor Bhaskar Dhungana debated the problems of film screening.
Producer Rabindrasingh's genius was that the producer would become sensitive about the film when it reached the stage of performance and the producer would get tired of having to endure trouble in every situation. "There is no problem if the producer understands everything and proceeds procedurally. It is up to the producer how to make and run his film." So I request the producer to understand all these issues and make the film,' he said.
Actress Thapa said that they give shows in multiplex halls with bias towards the films of single theater artists. 'How can the exhibitor without watching the film say that it will run in single theaters, it will run in multiplexes ? First, we had to give the same show for the film,' Rekha said, looking at Bhaskar, 'did my audience litter your hall when they came to watch the film in the multiplex? The audience should be in charge of whether to watch the film or not, Halwala will not decide this.'
distributor Gopalkaji Kayastha said that it was wrong to say 'We were not given a show' when there were two viewers.
Bhaskar Dhungana, the managing director of QFX, the biggest multiplex hall, claimed that they did not discriminate between quality Nepali films in the distribution of shows. "We are allocating shows based on data and deciding which films will run or not." We have always given a place to quality Nepali films,' said Dhungana, 'but, to make the distribution of shows equal, theaters should be added in the country first. This problem has arisen even with a limited solution.'
