Michael Moore Sounds Off About Israel-Hamas War and Netanyahu During DOC NYC Tribute Lunch
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Things got political on Wednesday at DOC NYC‘s 10th annual Visionaries Tribute Honorees, when honoree Michael Moore asked the crowd to take a pledge “to let our Jewish brothers and sisters know that we will never, ever allow what happened in the 20th century” to happen again.
The Gotham Hall gala marks the opening day of the 14th annual DOC NYC and attracts the who’s who of the doc community from both coasts.
Hundreds of documentary filmmakers, cinematographers, producers, editors, publicists, and distributors hobnob with Academy doc branch members in hopes of winning their votes.
Moore, American Documentary executive director Erika Dilday, and docu filmmakers Deborah Shaffer and Maite Alberdi, were honored during the four-hour lunch. “Few of us are in a very festive mood right now,” Moore said during his 40-plus minute acceptance speech. “And so I’d like to start by just asking you to join with me in a moment of silence for the 1,400 who slaughtered on October 7th, and the 10,000, half of them children, who have been slaughtered since, because there is nothing that will help bring back the dead by killing 10,000 more.” “This has been an awful month, I would assume, if you are Jewish,” Moore continued. “I’ve always felt that I would never want to hear even one single Jewish brother or sister tell me that they feel afraid, that maybe it isn’t what it was promised.
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