Clockwise from top left: Nasir Uddin Yousuff Bachchu, Mamunur Rashid, Morshedul Islam and Matin Rahman FacebookFour members from the feature film grants committee resigned soon after on Tuesday, citing 'it is not honourable or logical to stay in the committee anymore'The government of Bangladesh gave away close to Tk4 crore in film grants for the year 2018-2019 to a total of 13 recipients earlier this week. With a broken system, the number of deserving yet deprived filmmakers is accumulating,” said Belayat, who never applied for a government film grant himself. FFSB has been vocal about accountability of the selection process of the film grants and will hold a human chain next Tuesday at Shahbagh. Filmmaker Mohammad Jahangir Hossain’s feature length script on film legend Hiralal Sen had earned top marks by the grants committee, but the grants went to other candidates holding significantly lower marks. In his biographical film, he wants to show how Hiralal accomplished milestones (like directing a short film in 1898, a feature film in 1903, a political film in 1905, a banned film in 1912 etc), but was never recognized for any of it.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 30, 2019 18:22 UTC