Miami Beach City’s meetings usually do not generate national and international news, but this may happen on Wednesday.
The committee is scheduled to make a decision led by Mayor Stephen Miner, who will lead to the cancellation of the city’s lease with a cinematic theater that displays the Oscar -winning documentary film No other land. The mayor announced that the film, which shows how life appears to the Palestinians in the West Bank in the era of Israeli military rule, is to be anti -Semitic, and moved to punish the cinema after he refused his request to extract the documentary.
The prominent members of the documentary will see a close vote. More than 600 of them, including the Oscar winners Alex Jeepi, Laura Betteas, Parbra Coppel, Elizabeth Chai Vashaili, Jimmy Chen and Dan Cogan, signed a message announcing the decision on an attack on freedom of expression.
In the new episode of Doctline’s Dok Podcast, John Ridley and Matt Carey discusses the uproar about the decision and something lost in the discussion No other landIt is directed by a group of Palestinian and Israeli Jewish filmmakers, which puts the accusation of anti -Semitism in a different light.
DOC Talk reports from the 27th International Documentary Festival for Thessaloniki in Greece, which was awarded the Best Award for its favor Coexistence, my ass!A documentary film on the Israeli comedian Nam Chastre-Iliasse, who defends peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.
We are talking to Yorgos Krasakopoulos, the head of the program at TIDF, about choosing the festival assortment and why it is not afraid of potential protests such as those that broke out last year – serious enough for the riot police to say the demonstrations.
We are also talking to director Mark Andrew Alcheul, who came to the Tsaloniki Festival with Every American. His documentary film strikes a mat with a variety of high school wrestlers, and it is part of the vanguard that turned combat sport into a phenomenon from young women at the high school level.
This is in the latest episode of Doc Talk, hosted by the Oscar Ridley Prize winner (12 years old, SherleyCarrie, documentary film editor on the deadline. POD is the production date and Ridley’s Nō.
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