Oscar Winners & Hundreds Of Others Decry Threat To Close Miami Beach Theater For Showing ‘No Other Land’: “Attack On Freedom Of Expression & First Amendment”
deadline.comThe blowback continues over the Miami Beach mayor’s threat to close a movie theater over its screening of the Oscar-winning documentary .
More than 600 people including several Oscar winners have signed an open letter to the city decrying the potential shutdown of indie theater O Cinema as “an attack on freedom of expression, the right of artists to tell their stories, and a violation of the First Amendment.” See the letter and its signatories — including Academy Award winners Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Ezra Edelman, Dan Cogan, Barbara Kopple and Barry Jenkins — below.
Last week, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner issued a draft resolution calling for termination of a lease agreement with the 300-seat O Cinema, located at Old City Hall, a property owned by the city.
The resolution, which will be debated at a city commission meeting Wednesday, also would eliminate about $40,000 in grants provided by Miami Beach to the nonprofit that runs the theater.
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