The Academy of Arts and Film Sciences issued an apology for its response to an attack on the Oscar -winning director Hamdan Balla, after the pressure from the members of the voting.
Hundreds of members of the Academy criticized the Awards Authority for not acknowledging the balloon of the name in its first joint statement after the Palestinian director said that he was attacked by Israeli settlers and held by soldiers in the West Bank earlier this week.
The Academy issued the statement on March 26, which led to attempts to “harm or suppress artists for their work or their views”, but it did not call Bali directly-co-director of “No Land”, who won the award for the best documentary at the Academy Awards for this year.
Open message More than 700 members of the organization said that the academy statement “is much lower than the feelings that this moment calls.”
“It is not impossible for one of the organization to recognize a movie with a prize in the first week of March, then fail to defend filmmakers after only a few weeks,” I read the letter partially. Participated in the signature of Mark Rovalo, Javier Bardem, Olivia Coleman, and Joakin Phoenix, among other leading movie characters.
Hamdan Bali shows his injuries after his release from 20 hours in Israeli detention.
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After a meeting with the Council of Governor at the Academy, Oscar CEO Bill Kramer and its President Janet Yang, the members of the member, told the members that they regretted their failure to recognize the winner of the Palestinian Academy Award.
In a new statement issued on Friday and participated with Business Insider, the academy said: “On Wednesday, we sent a message in response to reports of violence against the Oscar -holder Hamdan Balla, the co -director of any other land, linked to his artistic expression. We regret that we failed to recognize directly to Mr. Bali and the film by name.”
“We are sincerely apologized to Mr. Bali and all the artists who felt the lack of support from our previous statement and they want to make it clear that the academy condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world,” it continues. “We are weakening the suppression of freedom of expression under any circumstances.”
Ballal, along with Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Basel Adra, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film at the Award Oscars and race in early March.
The film, made between 2019 and 2023, documents the displacement of the Palestinians from their homes in the Masifer Yata area in the West Bank, with a focus on the developing alliance between Adra, a Palestinian activist, and Abraham, an Israeli journalist.
Basel Adra, Rachel Zoron, Hamdan Bali, and Yaval Ibrahim, put their prizes.
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The documentary has struggled to find a distributor in the United States, and the producers ultimately chose to distribute the film to the film, which is what New York Times The critic described as “bold and destructive.”
Since its theatrical launch in January, “There is no other land” It has achieved approximately $ 2 million locally.
The message of the Open Academic members said that the film had achieved well because it was not “backed by wide distribution and the faded price campaigns” that others enjoyed.
“There is no“ no other land ”to win the Academy Award without these advantages talking about how important the film is to membership of the vote. Targeting ballet is not just an attack on one of the directors – it is an attack on everyone who dares watching and informing uncomfortable facts.
Speaking to the Associated Press of the attack, Palal said that he had been detained alongside two other Palestinians after the Israeli settlers attacked his village. He told the port that after that he was blindfolded for more than 20 hours and that he heard those who guarded him saying his name and the word “Oscar”.
The Israeli Defense Forces said that an Israeli and three Palestinians were detained on suspicion of throwing rocks, for each AP.
