'Deeply sorry': Director apologises after Sydney Film Festival racism outcry

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Australian actress and director Eliza Scanlen has deleted a scene from her first short film as writer-director and apologised after a racism outcry that followed it winning a prize at the Sydney Film Festival.

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A senior lecturer in directing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Pearl Tan, said she and her friends had been privately sharing "anger, sadness [and] disappointment" since watchingShe was "deeply disappointed" with the festival and the judges for it being selected and winning "without anyone questioning the lack of cultural competency".

"This incredible hustle would've been a tremendous amount of work for the filmmakers and the staff within Sydney Film Festival to pull off ... and all to sweep under the rug their racism." "I intended this film to be a young girl's journey of self-discovery in the age of internet culture and I failed to recognise how problematic this was," she wrote on Instagram. "I take full responsibility for this.

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