Veteran filmmaker Jim Jarmusch premiered Father Mother Sister Brother at the Venice Film Festival and faced questions about Mubi's $100 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Jarmusch said he was disappointed and disconcerted by the relationship with Sequoia, while noting his prior relationship with Mubi and that they were fantastic collaborators on the film. Numerous filmmakers signed an open letter criticizing Mubi for accepting Sequoia money, linking the firm's backing of Israeli defense tech startup Kela to alleged ties to genocide in Gaza. Mubi's CEO denied any connection to funding the war. Jarmusch stated he is not Mubi's spokesman and called all corporate money dirty.
"I was disappointed and disconcerted by this relationship," Jarmusch said, while noting that his own "relationship with Mubi started much before that, and they were fantastic to work with on this film."
Numerous filmmakers - including those with ties to Mubi - signed an open letter criticizing the streamer for accepting money from Sequoia and saying that the firm's backing of Israeli defense tech startup Kela meant that "Mubi's financial growth as a company is now explicitly tied to the genocide in Gaza." (Mubi's founder and CEO subsequently insisted that "any suggestion that our work is connected to funding the war is simply untrue.")
For his part, Jarmusch said at his film's press conference that he's "not the spokesman" for Mubi, but rather an independent filmmaker who's "taken money from various sources to fund my films." "All corporate money is dirty," he said.
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