Film-lovers to fight govt
A group of film-lovers has founded the Free Thai Cinema Movement to campaign against the Film Act BE 2473.
The group will agitate for the government to implement a new act that treats movies like other mass media. The Free Thai Cinema Movement said it would launch a continuous campaign to have the current law annulled. "We are all victims of an old-fashioned law," said director Apichatpong Weerasetthakul. The group was formed by filmmakers, the Thai Film Foundation and the Thai Film Directors' Association, as well as film buffs. Yesterday it held a meeting to discuss ideas to persuade the government to make structural changes to the censorship system which was based on the 77-year-old act.
Parinyaporn Pajee
The Nation
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