New York – The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Friday apologized for not accepting Ballal by the name of Oscar-Vigner “No Other Land” co-director Hamdan Ballal after his initial response to a violent attack.
In a letter to the members of the Academy, the Academy CEO Bill Kreer and its chairman, Janet Yang, said that he regrets not issuing direct statements on Ball. The director said on Monday, witnesses said, “West Bank was beaten by Israeli settlers and then detained by Israel’s army.”
The attack was widely condemned by several film organizations by Banglal and his fellow directors a few weeks after winning the best documentary at the Academy Awards. The academy issued a statement on Wednesday in which “to harm or suppress the artists for their work or their approach.”
Yuval Abraham, a journalist and co-director of “no other land”, was highly important to that response, compared to “silence on the attack of Hamdan”.
On Friday, more than 600 out of 11,000 members of the academy issued an open letter stating that the Academy’s statement “fell much less than emotions for this moment.” Signators included Jokin Phoenix, Olivia Callman, Ridge Ahmed, Emma Thompson, Xavier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and “The Zone of Interest” filmmaker Jonathan Glazer.
After a meeting by the Academy’s Board of Governors on Friday, Kreer and Yang responded with a new statement.
He said, “We honestly apologize to Mr. Ballal and all the artists who felt inability to our previous statement and want to clarify that the academy condemns such violence anywhere in the world,” he wrote to the members. “We hate the suppression of free speech under any circumstances.”
After being detained for more than 20 hours, Ball was issued by Israeli soldiers. Balls and two other Palestinians were accused of throwing stones at a settlement, denying the allegations. After its release, Banglal said that the Associated Press kicked the head “like football” during an attack on his village.
“I realized that they were exclusively attacking me,” Balal said at a West Bank Hospital after his release on Tuesday. “When they say ‘Oscar’, you understand. When they say your name, you understand.”
“No other land,” a joint Israeli-Filistinian production, the position in the Masafar Yata, which the Israeli army nominated in the 1980s as a live-fire training area and ordered the removal of the residents, mostly Arab Bedouins. Around 1,000 residents remain largely in place, but soldiers regularly come to demolish houses, tents, water tanks and olive gardens.
Despite not discovering the American distributor despite widespread praise, “no other land” was self-reliant in theaters. It still managed to cross $ 2 million in North American theaters.
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