Israeli funding angers filmmaker
ENGLISH filmmaker Ken Loach has withdrawn his film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival because the festival receives funding from the Israeli Government.
Loach told the festival if it did not reconsider the sponsorship, he would not allow the festival to screen his film.
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"Earlier this year, Loach asked the Edinburgh Film Festival to reconsider Israeli Government sponsorship.
ReplyDeleteThe festival decided not to accept funding from the Israeli Government that was to be used to bring filmmaker Tali Shalow Ezer to Edinburgh with her short film."
I agree with the festival director, Moore's decision in both cases.
ReplyDelete<p>Organisers of Melbourne's International Film Festival have defied calls from China not to show a documentary about an exiled Uighur leader.
Festival director Richard Moore said a Chinese consular official had insisted that the film be withdrawn, but he had refused to do so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8152385.stm
I agree with the festival director, Moore's decision in both cases.
ReplyDelete"Mr Moore said he would not accede to the request: "I wouldn't do it. The festival wouldn't. It's like submitting to blackmail."
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Organisers of Melbourne's International Film Festival have defied calls from China not to show a documentary about an exiled Uighur leader.
Festival director Richard Moore said a Chinese consular official had insisted that the film be withdrawn, but he had refused to do so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8152385.stm
The festival's executive director Richard Moore said that Mr Loach's emailed demands were part of an orchestrated campaign to target events that receive financial support from Israel.
ReplyDeleteHe said Mr Loach, who objects to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the recent Gaza intrusion, showed another of his films It's a Free World at last year's festival - which was also Israeli-funded.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25800179-12377,00.html
MIFF understands that that this issue is a particularly emotional one for people but we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long standing historical disputes.
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involved in difficult long standing historical disputes.
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Oh this is so cute!!!
involved in difficult long standing historical disputes.
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Oh this is so cute!!!
The occupation of Palestine is a historical dispute!!! It's just a dispute between two soverewign nations!! Mr. Moore is not an idiot of course just a man who's owned from head to toe...VZA, maybe you should have a look at " My Israel Question" by Antony Loewenstein if you want to know who Mr Moore is!!
nations involved in difficult long standing historical disputes.
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Oh, this is so cute!! historical dispute! The occupation of Palestine is just a historical dispute!!
Mr Moore is owened from head to toe! One only needs to read "my Israel Question" to undersdtand the power of the lobby in Australia.
nations involved in difficult long standing historical disputes.
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Oh, this is so cute!! historical dispute! The occupation of Palestine is just a historical dispute!!
Mr Moore is owened from head to toe! One only needs to read "my Israel Question" by Antony Loewenstein in order to undersdtand the power of the lobby in Australia.
Mr Loach's emailed demands were part of an orchestrated campaign to target events that receive financial support from Israel.
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Yes and it's called BDS! Boycott, Sanction and Divest..This is not new to you vza!! Maybe to mr. Moore but not to you!!!
Are you telling us that BDS is wrong vza? Defending Mr. Moore suggests that!!!
ReplyDeleteI am saying, Leave the Arts alone!
ReplyDeleteOf course it is not new to me and for the most part I can support it but definitely NOT in this case. This is not an Israeli Film Festival. What happens when someone comes along and says no Chinese money because of Tibet or we withdraw our film and then someone else says No Russian money because of Chechnya or we will withdraw our film, or no U.S. money because of Iraq or I withdraw my film etc. What if a Jewish family objected to the PA paying the airfare of a Palestinian director on the basis that an action taken by Fatah resulted in a loved one's death? It opens the festival to a never ending series of political ultimatums. That is unfair to all those who have absolutely nothing to do with Israel or its occupation. Leave the ARTS and the ARTISTS alone. For independent artists looking for a break this may be their chance to reach a wider audience. They have a difficult enough time as it is funding their projects. Israel paying 300 dollars for the airfare of a director is simply not a big enough deal to justifying disrupting a festival. Mr. Moore is not bought by anyone. He is simply doing what is best and FAIR for the future of the festival because once he goes down that road where does it all end?. He rightly points to the many films with a Palestinian point of view that have been screeened at the Melbourne Festival. Reaching people through the art of film will do more for the Palestinian cause than the kind of blackmail that Loach attempted.
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ReplyDeleteWhy do you think the state of Israel is sponsoring Melbourne festival? For the love of the arts?
They are paying the travel expenses of the Israeli director, Tgia.
ReplyDeleteOf course it is not new to me and for the most part I can support it but definitely NOT in this case. This is not an Israeli Film Festival. What happens when someone comes along and says no Chinese money because of Tibet or we withdraw our film and then someone else says No Russian money because of Chechnya or we will withdraw our film, or no U.S. money because of Iraq or I withdraw my film etc. What if a Jewish family objected to the PA paying the airfare of a Palestinian director on the basis that an action taken by Fatah resulted in a loved one's death? It opens the festival to a never ending series of political ultimatums. That is unfair to all those who have absolutely nothing to do with Israel or its occupation. Leave the ARTS and the ARTISTS alone. For independent artists looking for a break this may be their chance to reach a wider audience. They have a difficult enough time as it is funding their projects. Israel paying 300 dollars for the airfare of a director is simply not a big enough deal to justify disrupting a festival. Mr. Moore is not bought by anyone. He is simply doing what is best and FAIR for the future of the festival because once he goes down that road where does it all end?. He rightly points to the many films with a Palestinian point of view that have been screeened at the Melbourne Festival. Reaching people through the art of film will do more for the Palestinian cause than the kind of blackmail that Loach attempted.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that was not an issue during the BDS of South Africa, there was no hand wringing of good causes etc. It included culture, art, education, economic, products, the list was legion. Why is it a question now?
ReplyDeleteLook, they want to act like the Palestinians do not exist, and they can do as they please with them - than Israel needs to be treated like it does not exist. All protocols must stop, their UN charter needs to be revoked, laws with teeth have to be enacted for sending money to Israel just like the dogged and most of the time spurious charges against terrorism - Israel is a terrorist state.
<span><span>"In 1965, the American Committee on Africa, following the lead of prominent British arts associations, sponsored a historic declaration against South African apartheid, signed by more than 60 cultural personalities. It read: "We say no to apartheid. We take this pledge in solemn resolve to refuse any encouragement of, or indeed, any professional association with the present Republic of South Africa, this until the day when all its people shall equally enjoy the educational and cultural advantages of that rich and beautiful land."</span></span>
ReplyDelete<span><span>f one were to replace "Republic of South Africa" with the "State of Israel," the rest should apply just as strongly. Israel today -- 60 years after its establishment through a deliberate and systemic process of ethnic cleansing of a large majority of the indigenous Palestinian population (for an authoritative historical account of the "birth" of Israel, refer to Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) -- still practices racial discrimination against its own "non-Jewish" citizens; it still maintains the longest military occupation in modern history; it still denies Palestinian refugees -- uprooted, dispossessed and expelled by Zionists over the last six decades -- their internationally-recognized right to return to their homes and properties; and it still commits war crimes and violates basic human rights and tenets of international humanitarian law with utter impunity.
Israel at 60 is a more sophisticated, evolved and brutal form of apartheid than its South African predecessor, according to authoritative statements by South African anti-apartheid leaders, like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the country's current government minister Ronnie Kasrils, who is Jewish. It therefore deserves from all people of conscience around the world, particularly those who opposed South African apartheid, the same measures of solidarity and human compassion, through an effective application of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel until it abides by international law and respects basic human rights."</span></span>
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9515.shtml
<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: trebuchet; line-height: 19px;">Watch 'Corruption 101' at documentarywire.com and see if you come to the same place 'vza'. Ken Loach should be commended for his heartfelt demonstration in non-violent protest to over 60 YEARS of illegal occupation by Israelis (planned by Zionist Jews with the unending financial, political and media help from the US and Britain) in which 2 members of the UN have been killed by Zionist Jews after drafting respectable resolution plans, and more recently, Yitzhak Rabin, also killed by right-wing Jews after the Oslo peace deal.
ReplyDeleteThose suffering from ignorance or have a thirst for real truth can also visit:
therealnews.com
Get a life douche bag and think before you speak.</span>
ps. bringing the discussion of China's request should not even be uttered in the same topic of discussion. Your narrow uneducated mind limits your perspective.
If people like Ken Loach don't stand up and say something inside of their arena, who do you expect to when ALL major Australian networks omit every inhuman action by Israelis? You only ever hear of retaliation by Palestinians thus expanding your moronic point of view.
I don't buy that!
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ReplyDeleteOh such an argument. It positively dazzles me!
Of course, your insults are an example of an educated mind and a nonmoronic view?
douchebag? hahahahahhaha. So clever!
It is always easier to gravitate to the well deserved insults vza, to bypass the meat of any discussion. In your case you are too petty to give anyone the benefit of an argument.
ReplyDeleteNo actually, what is easiest to do is to present an argument without the insults. How did I not give anyone the benefit of an argument? My argument is given at 10:27. That is the meat of my part of the discussion.
ReplyDeleteYour argument explicitly states the insults were deserved and implicity trumpets your moral superiority because I do not think as you do on this issue...which is also the meat of Peace vision's comment. Now that is a petty conceit if there ever was one! And what a way to get people to change their minds! Brilliant!
Some people can afford petty conceit while others cannot :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely vza. You know us "narrow uneducated minds of limited perspective" have to stick together, cause we are "suffering from ignorance" and have "moronic points of view". LOL
ReplyDeleteOh brother. With cretinous attack dawgs like Piece of Vileness advocating for them, it is an absolute certainty the Palestinains will suffer ever greater isolation, desolation and despair for at least 1,000 more years. Great job Piece o' Dung!!