'Need for mechanism to facilitate foreign,domestic production'

Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari today said there was a need for a mechanism to facilitate foreign as well as domestic film producers get shooting permissions and other clearances in the most convenient manner.
Speaking here at the launch of the Centenary Film Festival, Tewari said that a single window mechanism, the inter-ministerial committee for Promotion and Facilitation of Film Production in India will ensure the removal of all possible hurdles and lay down a timeline for different agencies involved for granting clearances for film shooting in India.
The Union minister said that presently the committee would primarily facilitate foreign filmmakers wanting to shoot in India, but there was a need to create a level playing field for domestic film makers as well.

He said that a mechanism could be set up in consultation with state governments to ensure that the creative energy of the Indian filmmakers is not affected by bureaucratic hurdles.
He said that the Centenary Film Festival had been planned as a tribute to the Indian film industry which would precede the national film awards.
Tewari said that the ministry was looking forward to the recommendations of the Justice Mudgal Committee which had been constituted to identify the contemporary requirements of film certification.
The Congress MP also inaugurated the Indian cinema 100 (celebrating a century: an audio visual voyage) exhibition.

This exhibition has been specially conceived and curated by the Films Division which aims at familiarising visitors with some vintage artefacts, cinema equipment including cameras, sound-recording and editing machines and lighting equipment.