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Call for better cinema theatres

Focus on technology: Tamil filmmaker and actor Cheran inaugurating a seminar on ‘Digital technology: a new trend in cinematic aesthetics’ organised as part of the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala in the city on Sunday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tamil filmmaker and actor Cheran said here on Sunday that the film community in India must strive to upgrade the technical quality of theatres in order to bring out the real aesthetics of technologically advanced films.

He was inaugurating a seminar on the topic ‘Digital technology: a new trend in cinematic aesthetics’ organised as part of the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).

Mr. Cheran, who is a member of the NETPAC jury at the 14th IFFK, said the impact of the ever-growing digital technology in our lives needed to be closely studied.

Film editor Ajith Kumar, who gave the keynote address at the seminar, said digital technology was distancing time and space from reality. Directors in earlier days used to give more freedom to editors while new directors hesitated to do so. “For the same reason we work with a lot of limitations today,” he said.

Kerala State Chalachitra Academy chairman K.R. Mohanan said the Malayalam film industry must do away with its rejectionist attitude towards new technology.

HBO co-executive producer Kameela Fox, festival artistic director Bina Paul Venugopal, Academy vice-chairman V.K. Joseph and actor Padmapriya also participated in the seminar.

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