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Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Lead Protest Against Argentine President Javier Milei’s Move to Scrap Film Institute, INCAA
Argentine president Javier Milei’s draft bill to scrap film institute and film schools has triggered protest from the global film community.
The other signees include actor-producers Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, directors Olivier Assayas, Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juan Antonio Bayona, Pedro Costa, Asif Kapadia, Corneliu Porumboiu, Abel Ferrara, Mira Nair, Roger Corman and Isabel Coixet, among many other prominent figures in the global film community. While addressing the committee plenary of the congress this past week, director Lucrecia Martel (“Zama”), observed: “It seems like this draft bill was written by people who are biased against the film industry; we were never even consulted.” Santiago Mitre, director of the Oscar-nominated “Argentina 1985,” who also spoke to the committee plenary, pointed out that Argentine cinema, aside from having earned the most Oscar nominations in the region, has, in fact, been self-sustaining.
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