April 29, 2005

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You may remember that when Andrew James Horton was covering the Thessaloniki Film Festival last fall, he wrapped by writing:

At the end of the festival, a petition was circulating in protest of the removal of Eduardo Antin from his job as director of the Buenos Aires Film Festival, despite his internationally recognized success at raising the profile of Argentinean cinema.... Let's hope there'lll be no need in the near future of such devices to support [Thessaloniki Film Festival Director Michel] Demopoulos and the work he has done.

Unfortunately, hope was not enough.

Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

And now:

We, in the international film community, directors and staffs of film festivals and cinematheques, producers, artists, critics and film studies teachers, are profoundly troubled and saddened by the drastic and ill-considered actions of the Greek government in dismissing Theo Angelopoulos and Michel Demopoulos from their respective positions as President and Director of the International Thessaloniki Film Festival....

Read on and, if you're so inclined, sign here.

/dwh



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Posted by cphillips at April 29, 2005 3:16 PM