Posted on 07/18/2009 12:06:36 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Filmmaker and activist Ken Loach has moved to withdraw his work from Melbourne's International Film Festival in protest against partial sponsorship from Israel, a report said Saturday.
Loach, whose work The Wind that Shakes the Barley won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 2006, wrote to the festival's director Richard Moore threatening to pull his film Looking for Eric because the event had received Israeli funds.
"Palestinians, including artists and academics, have called for a boycott of events supported by Israel," wrote Loach, according to The Age newspaper.
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Ken Loach is a miserable socialist bastard. All his films are grim and end on a low. In the case of ‘Kes’ not even a dramatic low, but an anticlimatical one....
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