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Documentary Filmmakers Blast Proposal to Shut Down Miami Beach’s O Cinema: ‘An Attack on Freedom of Expression’
The documentary community is protesting the Miami Beach mayor's resolution to terminate the lease of the O Cinema for showing "No Other Land."
On Monday, 752 members of the international filmmaking community including doc feature Oscar winners Michael Moore, Laura Poitras, Ezra Edelman and Alex Gibney signed an open letter to the city of Miami Beach that stated, in part, that the Mayor’s threat to shut down the O Cinema is “an attack on freedom of expression, the right of artists to tell their stories, and a violation of the First Amendment.” Directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists: Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Basel Adra, it went on to play widely on the fest circuit, winning a slew of other awards prior to the Oscar. Meiner characterized the film as “a false one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our city and residents” and has introduced legislation to terminate the lease for the O Cinema, a city-owned property.
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