Filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery has clarified that he’s not a part of Progressive Filmmakers’ Association that is set to be launched by a bunch of filmmakers as an alternative choice to current organisations within the Malayalam movie trade.
In a publish on his official Fb web page on Wednesday (September 18, 2024), Mr. Pellissery refuted media reviews that mentioned he was a part of the collective.
“I broadly agree and welcome the idea of an unbiased collective of filmmakers and producers. If I want to be a part of such a collective, it would come as an official announcement from my facet. Issues that are being reported beneath my title are with out my data,” he mentioned within the publish.
Mr. Pellissery’s was one of many undersigned names in a imaginative and prescient word of the proposed organisation which has been circulating inside the trade up to now few days. Filmmakers Anjali Menon, Aashiq Abu, Rajeev Ravi, actor Rima Kallingal and producer Bineesh Chandra are the opposite names on the listing.
Mr. Ravi had on Monday (September 16, 2024) confirmed to The Hindu that the discussions for the formation of such an organisation had been ongoing, though it was but to be registered.
Producer Sandra Thomas had additionally earlier mentioned she wouldn’t be becoming a member of the affiliation in the interim, though she “agreed with the concept.”
The plans for the formation of the brand new affiliation is being seen as part of the bigger churn within the Malayalam movie trade following the discharge of the Hema Committee report on the bigger points, together with these confronted by ladies, within the trade.
The imaginative and prescient word proclaims that the brand new organisation shall be rooted in rules that prioritise equality, cooperation, social justice and can work in the direction of safeguarding the rights of everybody within the filmmaking group.
The information of the formation of the brand new affiliation comes hardly two weeks after Aashiq Abu resigned from the primary membership of Film Employees Federation of Kerala (FEFKA) Directors’ Union in protest towards the “failure of its management to take a powerful place” following the discharge of the Hema Committee report.
Printed – September 18, 2024 12:41 pm IST