The National Film Authority (NFA) has inaugurated the Film Classification Committee (FCC).
The Committee will be responsible for benchmarking the categorisation, classification, standardisation, and preview of film content intended for viewership.
An astute filmmaker, Socrate Sarfo would head the freshly inaugurated 12-member Committee.
There are other users together with a agent each and every from the Facts Services Division, Nationwide Commission of Tradition, National Film and Tv Institute, Copyright Office environment, Film Producers Association, Conventional Religious Affiliation, Christian Council, Gender Ministry among other folks.
Barbara Oteng Gyasi, the Tourism Minister in her speech said she believed in the professional competence of customers picked.
She was hopeful that the end result of their operates would resonate with the hopes and aspirations of the Ghanaian persons and our lifestyle.
“I am self-confident that this system would open a chapter in the enhancement of Ghana’s film market.
“Film earning is an act with a common interaction electric power and has a transformational affect on the human mind as they portray and affect modern society
“The operate of the classification committee would make certain that the impact of lifestyle, financial, historic, political and technological proportions would transform the narratives of film earning in Ghana so improving good quality and classification of movie to protect viewers in the most effective of the region,” she explained.
On his section, Mr Sarfo expressed his appreciation for the appointment and assure to provide on their mandate in spite of the difficulties anticipated.
“It was pretty critical for us to shield our identity as Ghanaians so that the functions of long run technology have been not informed by outdoors lifestyle one thing he deems extremely difficult in the contemporary period,” he explained.
Chairman of the Nationwide Film Authority (NFA), David Dontoh who was current at the inauguration rallied support and cooperation with the newly inaugurated film body so as to make their function easy.
