Academy Governors Hold Urgent Meeting On ‘No Other Land’ Crisis As Oscar Winners Blast Tepid AMPAS Response To Filmmaker’s Beating
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned the Academy’s board of governors is meeting in extraordinary session this morning to confront a deepening crisis over its response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of No Other Land.
As that meeting nears an 11 am Pacific Time start, Deadline can report a new statement has been signed by leading members of the Academy – including actors Olivia Colman, Joaquin Phoenix, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Emma Thompson, and directors Ava DuVernay, Errol Morris, Adam McKay, Jonathan Glazer, and writer Tony Kushner – that demands a more forceful response to Ballal’s treatment by Israeli authorities.
Israeli police and military allegedly seized Ballal as he was heading to a hospital to seek medical attention after he was attacked by Israeli settlers outside his home in the occupied West Bank village of Susiya earlier this week.
While in custody, Israeli authorities allegedly assaulted Ballal and mocked him for winning an Oscar before releasing him the next day.
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