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Monday, July 20, 2009

UK director pulls out of Melbourne film fest over Israel funding

Ma'an
British director Ken Loach has withdrawn his film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival in protest of Israeli government funding.

In a letter to the festival director, Richard Moore, Loach, wrote that he was protesting not Israeli films or filmmakers, but Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestinian land, destruction of homes and livelihoods,” according to The Age, a newspaper in Melbourne.

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