"More than 1,300 film and TV professionals, including Ayo Edebiri and Olivia Coleman, have signed an open letter pledging to boycott Israeli film institutions in response to the "carnage" occurring in Gaza. The list of signatories includes numerous award-winning Hollywood titans, who have declared that they will refuse to work with film companies that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people". Alongside Ayo Edebiri and Olivia Coleman, the list of names includes The History of Sound star Josh O'Connor, Poor Things actress Emma Stone, The White Lotus actress Aimee Lou Wood, and The Room Next Door 's Tilda Swinton."
"Queer stars including And Just Like That... star Cynthia Nixon, Hacks actress Hannah Einbinder, Fire Island's Joel Kim Booster, Pose's Indya Moore, Harry Potter's Miriam Margolyes and Killers of the Flower Moon 's Lily Gladstone have also signed the open letter. Artists who have signed the pledge will not "screen films, appear at or otherwise work with" Israeli film institutions such as festivals, broadcasters or production companies that are "complicit in" or "justify genocide", nor those that partner with the Israeli government."
"The open letter was published on 8 September by campaign group Film Workers for Palestine, which said it was answering calls by Palestinian filmmakers "to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, as well as to 'do everything humanly possible' to end complicity in their oppression". Film Workers for Palestine also wrote that it was inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, a group of artists founded in 1987, which declined to have their films screened in apartheid South Africa."
More than 1,300 film and television professionals, including high-profile actors, pledged a boycott of Israeli film institutions in response to the carnage in Gaza. Signatories include numerous award-winning performers across mainstream and queer cinema. The pledge bars signatories from screening films, appearing at, or otherwise working with Israeli festivals, broadcasters, or production companies deemed complicit in or justifying genocide, or those partnering with the Israeli government. Film Workers for Palestine answered calls from Palestinian filmmakers to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, and cited Filmmakers United Against Apartheid as inspiration for the action.
Read at PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]