{"id":1634,"date":"2016-12-23T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T07:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/bicmanew\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:25:13","slug":"press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BICMA\/DG \/2016\/1826 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a023<sup>rd<\/sup> December, 2016<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BICMA has not barred the screening of the Film &#8220;Hema Hema: Sing me a song while I wait&#8221;<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This has reference to the news headline broadcasted by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) on the evening of 21<sup>st<\/sup> December, 2016, \u201cBICMA bars screening of Hema Hema \u201c, with further elaboration that \u201cBhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA), disapproved the screening of\u00a0the Bhutanese film, \u201cHema Hema: Sing Me Song While I Wait<strong>\u201d. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) would like to inform that the headline was incorrect and as such has misinformed and misled the general public. The film \u201cHema Hema: Sing Me Song While I Wait<strong>\u201d <\/strong>has not been barred for screening as the film is still under review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The film has been reviewed by the National Films Review Board (NFRB) and recommended that the film be further reviewed by the Department of Culture under the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs. The NRFB is an independent board with members from different relevant stakeholders, instituted by the Authority as per Provision of the Act and the Rules for establishment of the National Film Review Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BICMA\/DG \/2016\/1826 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a023rd December, 2016\u00a0 BICMA has not barred the screening of the Film &#8220;Hema Hema: Sing me a song while I&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=1634\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}