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Venice Film Festival Takes Unprecedented Step Ahead of Event
Organisers blamed a scheduling conflict as jurors prepare for a festival already shadowed by politicized press conferences.
- The Venice International Film Festival canceled its main jury press conference this year, citing a 'scheduling conflict' ahead of the September 2 opening featuring Danny Boyle's Ink, breaking from traditional protocol.
- Over 200 film industry figures, including Guy Pearce, Céline Sciamma and Alia Shawkat, signed an open letter titled 'Yet Gaza Continues to Burn' demanding the festival support Palestine, as Venice4Palestine gathered signatures from Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.
- Jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal leads a panel including Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, whose acclaimed 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' about a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize last year.
- The festival denied that political considerations influenced the decision, though questions have been raised about the timing, as last year jury head Alexander Payne admitted he was 'unprepared' to answer questions about Gaza when political issues dominated.
- Berlin Film Festival jury president Wim Wenders previously argued 'filmmakers have to stay out of politics' in response to questions about Israel's war with Gaza, while jury press conferences remain standard at competing festivals like Cannes and Berlin, making Venice's cancellation an outlier.
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In an unusual step, the organizers of the Venice Film Festival cancel the jury press conference – apparently out of concern for political controversy. The festival management denies this.
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After debates on political issues at film festivals, the traditional jury press conference in Venice is surprising. The festival management speaks of a "term conflict".
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