Doc Talk Podcast On Miami Beach Move To Punish Theater Showing ‘No Other Land’, Plus Field Report From Thessaloniki Doc Festival
deadline.comMiami Beach city commission meetings typically don’t generate national and international news, but that could happen Wednesday.
The commission is due to take up a resolution spearheaded by Mayor Steven Meiner that would cancel the city’s lease with a movie theater showing the Oscar-winning documentary .
The mayor declared the film, which shows what life is like for Palestinians in the West Bank under Israeli military rule, to be antisemitic, and he moved to punish O Cinema after it refused his demand to yank the documentary.
Leading members of the documentary community will be watching the vote closely. More than 600 of them, including Oscar winners Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras, Barbara Kopple, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin and Dan Cogan, signed a letter that declares the resolution an attack on freedom of expression.
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