In the wake of an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang, which apparently served as the organization’s only response to Hamdan BallalOne of the two Palestinian filmmakers apart from the Israeli-Palestinian collective directing the Oscar winner ”No other country“To be attacked by Israeli settlers and then pulled out of an ambulance and arrested by Israeli soldiers, Over 600 Academy members have signed a statement criticize the lack of support as the academy has shown Best documentary function receiver.
Although the first letter signed by Kramer and Yang said Academy “condemns injury or suppresses artists,” It mentioned neither Ballal nor “no other country.” Israeli Filmmaker Yuval Abraham, One of the Co-Directors of “No Other Land,” was the first to report balls and subsequent release, and the first to mention that several Academy Members, Especialy Those in the Documentation to Make Issue, but The academy “refused.”
Now, with signers including Mark Ruffalo, Ava Duvernay, Alfonso Cuarón, Olivia Colman and hundreds more, the internal conflict has been published. The statement begins by saying the Academy’s letter to the members, entitled “Our global Film Community, “” fell well below the feelings that this moment requires. Therefore, we issue our own statement, which speaks for the signed members of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “
It keeps saying:
“We are in condemnation of the brutal attack and illegal detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmakers Hamdan Ballal by settlers and Israeli forces on the West Bank.
As artists, we depend on our ability to tell stories without reprisals. Documentary filmmakers often expose themselves to extreme risks to enlighten the world. It is unjustifiable for an organization to recognize a movie with an award during the first week of March and then fails to defend its filmmakers just a few weeks later.
Winning an Oscar is not an easy task. Most films in the competition are bent by broad distribution and exorbitant priced campaigns aimed at voice members. For “no other country” to win an Oscar, but these benefits talk about how important the film is to the voting membership.
The focus of Ballal is not just an attack on a filmmaker – it is an attack on anyone who dares to testify and tell uncomfortable truths.
We will continue to watch over this film team. Winning an Oscar has put his lives in increasing danger, and we will not hack words when the safety of other artists is at stake. “
Deadline reports that the statement, which contains signatures from members of all 19 branches at the academy, has led to one Emergency meeting on the Board of Organization On the morning Friday March 28th.
Indieview has reached the academy to comment on the members’ public statement.
