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Effective May 1, 2021, no television station, cinema theatre or movie screening centre shall show any unclassified audiovisual content, the National Film Authority (NFA) has said.
According to the NFA, it is stated in the Development and Classification Film Act 935 that all audiovisual content should be reviewed and classified before shown on any platform.
Thus, right owners and others who wish to broadcast their content must submit it to the Film Classification Committee for examination and classification at least twenty-one days before the selected date for showing, NFA said in a press release.
Such audiovisual content include feature films, short films, TV series, selected TV programs, documentaries, advertisements, music videos which are meant for public exhibition and broadcasting.
NFA stated that right owners will be sanctioned if they fail to submit a content for review and clasification.
Read the statement below:
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