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‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Yuval Abraham Slams Oscar Academy Letter To Members In Wake Of Hamdan Ballal Attack
‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Yuval Abraham Slams Oscar Academy Letter To Members In Wake Of Hamdan Ballal Attack
Israeli director Abraham, who had previously criticised the organisation’s failure to publicly support Hamdan in the wake of his arrest, has hit out at a letter co-signed by Bill Kramer and Janet Yang sent to Academy members on Wednesday, seemingly in response to what happened to Ballal. “Compare this, to the academy’s rightfully strong position when it’s the Iranian government oppressing filmmakers,” he wrote, posting an extract of the letter related to Panahi’s detention in 2010. The attack on Ballal took place less than a month after the director was feted at the 97th Academy Awards ceremony in L.A. with the Best Documentary prize, alongside co-directors Abraham and fellow Palestinian filmmaker and activist Basel Adra and Israeli cinematographer, editor and directorRachel Szor.
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