Friday, April 1, 2011

Passion, when you do not have any income for your career, will you keep your passion?

The film is talking about the severe situation in which the Mongolia filmmakers are suffering. It is a documentary film which is tracing the history of Mongolia films. The whole story is around the filmmaker Binder Jigjid, son of Jigjid Dejid who was a pioneer of Mongolian cinema during the Communist era. Binder won several international film awards but had trouble to screen his low-budget films because his films are not market-driven commercial films. His independent films has to rely on his own publicity from one country to another country and earn very little money which is not enough to pay back for his loans. As a documentary film mirroring the struggling of artistic and independent Mongolia filmmakers, Passion claims respects towards them and represents the dissatisfaction towards the market economy driven film market. Just as what Binder said in the interview, "the society is driven by money, not art. People don't care about the film, they care about publicity." 

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