Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has withdrawn his suggestion to terminate the lease agreement by Arthouse Theater The cinema for screening “no other country” After a municipal council on Wednesday. Per reporting in Miami HeraldA majority of the members of the Council opposed the plan.
Meiner had publicly discouraged the O-cinema from screening the Oscar-winning documentary on the Israel-Palestine crisis, which he referred to in a Mars newsletter as “a false unilateral propaganda attack against the Jewish people who are not compatible with the values in our city and inhabitants.” (Although many have noted that film was made by a collective of filmmakers of both Israeli and Palestinian origin.) When the theater did not follow, the legislation was introduced last week to remove the independent theater from its long -term home and withdraw about $ 40,000 in grant financing from the institution.
The move was quickly criticized by activists from both the political world and the world by independent film, all concerned about the first amendments by a government that tells an independent exhibitor what type of films it is allowed to program. In a statement submitted to IndieWire after the drafting of the proposal, the Florida Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic celebrated the success of the pressure campaign.
“Public pressure works.No other country“And later tried to terminate the lease and reject the O -cinema. We welcome Mayor Meiner failure with both attempts,” the CEO’s CEO, Imam Jaber, said
Although he won the Oscar Award for Best Documentary Function, “No Other Land” still does not have a formal distribution agreement in North America. The film continues to book theatrical commitment on an individual basis and became Oscar-nominated documentary year.
