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Redgrave defends Tel Aviv, Toronto film festival

Tel Aviv : Israel | about 1 month ago  
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Actress Vanessa Redgrave is defending the Toronto Film Festival's decision to showcase films about Tel Aviv. In a letter to the New York Review of Books co-written by artist Julian Schnabel and playwright Martin Sherman, Redgrave said the protest by a group of filmmakers...
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  • News Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency | about 1 month ago
    Actress Vanessa Redgrave is defending the Toronto Film Festival's decision to showcase films about Tel Aviv. In a letter to the New York Review of Books co-written by artist Julian Schnabel and playwright Martin Sherman, Redgrave said the protest by...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | about 1 month ago
    The furor over the Toronto International Film Festival's decision to cast a cinematic spotlight on Tel Aviv continued Thursday as Academy Award-winner Rabbi Marvin Hier condemned the uproar as "shocking" at a news conference in Toronto just hours...
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  • Blog Source: sixties-l.blogspot.com
    A letter was written to Toronto Film Festival officials complaining that Tel-Aviv is built on "thousands of destroyed Palestinian villages". You see, a movie in the festival called "City to City" honors Tel-Aviv's 100th anniversary. ...
  • Blog Source: normblog.typepad.com
    ... but my expectation turns out to be wrong - she and her two co-signatories talk some good sense in a letter to the New York Review of Books about the Toronto Film Festival's decision to celebrate the city of Tel Aviv. They write: ...
  • Blog Source: blog.taragana.com
    ... International Film Festival because of the event's focus on Israeli moviemaking. This year's (09) festival features a programme entitled City to City, which will highlight 10 Israeli films to celebrate Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary. ...
  • Blog Source: jedistudis.blogspot.com
    ... filmmakers who were disenfranchised by their confreres in their respective fields, such as the recent Toronto International Film Festival where the likes of Danny Glover and Jane Fonda protested the inclusion of Tel Aviv filmmakers. ...
  • Blog Source: www.israpundit.com
    ... opinion makers, philanthropists and activists similar to that organized in 1989 under the auspices of then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and then defense minister Yitzhak Rabin in order to demonstrate the unity of the Jewish people. ...
  • Blog Source: forums.islamicawakening.com
    This tactic was tried at the recent Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as Tel Aviv was spotlighted in a City-to-City program with Toronto. The ostensible purpose was to use an apolitical, cultural event to obscure the tyranny ...
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