Oliver Stone Speaks Out In Support of Saudi Arabia At Red Sea Opening; Sharon Stone Hits The Red Carpet & Bruno Mars Heats Up The Party
deadline.comOlive Stone voiced support for Saudi Arabia at the opening on Thursday of the second edition of country’s Red Sea International Film Festival, which he is attending as president of the international jury.
The Oscar-winning director said Saudi Arabia was a country that is “misunderstood in the present world”. “You see the changes that are coming here, the reforms.
I think people who judge too harshly should come and visit this place and see for themselves,” he told the opening ceremony to cheers and applause.
Running December 1 to 10 in the port city of Jeddah, the Red Sea Festival unfolds five years to the week that news first broke that Saudi Arabia was lifting its 35-year cinema ban as part of sweeping reforms to open up society and the economy.
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