Film-makers under siege

THE recent suggested guidelines for television dramas - the do's and don'ts from script content to set design - has sparked off quite a storm among local film-makers. From being concerned about too much rigidity to the main fear of restricting the very basics of creativity, several spoke out against and/or pleaded for the authorities not to be too heavy-handed when these guidelines are eventually implemented. Many feel that there are other more important things to look into, such as the future of films, and giving support to them by providing a healthy infrastructure on which they may grow, instead of such minor things as forbidding the portrayal of images or carvings of animals etc. to be…