Mustang. KATHMANDU: The shooting of a Japanese music video has been completed at a beautiful ground in Kagbeni, Mustang. The music video also features two Nepali child artists. The foreign cast and crew of technicians have already returned to their home country after completing the shooting.
However, with this shooting, a serious flaw in the process of regulation and approval of Nepal’s film sector has once again come to the surface.
What’s the problem?
Currently, there are only two forms available for shooting permission at the Audio-Visual Section under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, one for a film and the other for a documentary. The ministry does not have a separate genre or form for music videos, web series, advertisements or other commercial shootings.
Due to this old and impractical process, a Japanese music video shot in Mustang has also had to work with a documentary film permit.
Japan’s famous music video director Taku Hirakoshi has been given the identity of documentary director by Nepal’s permission process.
There is no clarity in the
bill
The new bill related to films currently under discussion does not address these categories. Due to the lack of a clear policy on how to manage genres other than films and documentaries (such as music videos, advertisements, etc.), even foreign creators are forced to fall into the process of such cumbersome and misclassification in Nepal.
This has created a situation where international artists coming to shoot in Nepal have to lose their original genre identity and become documentary directors. Granting permission to a music video as a documentary is a lack of knowledge of the ministry and a weakness in the system.
Although Nepal is claimed to be the best destination for film shooting, there is a risk that the basic process is impractical, sending a wrong message to foreign creators and making a mockery of Nepal’s administrative process
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