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Doc Talk Podcast On Miami Beach Move To Punish Theater Showing ‘No Other Land’, Plus Field Report From Thessaloniki Doc Festival
Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast discusses the uproar over a Miami Beach resolution against a theater showing No Other Land.
More than 600 of them, including Oscar winners Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras, Barbara Kopple, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin and Dan Cogan, signed a letter that declares the resolution an attack on freedom of expression. On the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey discuss the uproar over the resolution and something that’s getting lost in the debate over No Other Land: that it’s directed by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli Jewish filmmakers, which puts the charge of antisemitism in a different light. We speak with Yorgos Krassakopoulos, head of program at TiDF, about choosing the festival lineup and why he’s “not afraid” of potential protests like one that flared last year — serious enough for riot police to be called in to quell demonstrations.
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