China has issued new rules to rein in digital filmmakers, some of whom have screened politically taboo home videos on the Web and shown documentaries exposing social ills at film festivals abroad.
The regulations, published in a circular by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), forbid the broadcast of digital movies in any form without prior approval and promise to punish those who circumvent the censors.
Mini-digital cameras have become a hot-selling accessory for amateur filmmakers as well as a popular tool for reality-style television serials and news dramas employing spy lenses.
But movies zooming in on peasant hardships, worker protests and avant-garde art stunts have made the hand-held cameras a dangerous technology in the eyes of Communist Party ideologues.
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