'Completely Tone Deaf': How Venice Became the F-You Film Festival

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One year after signing a gender-parity pledge as MeToo and TimesUp concerns swept the film industry, the VeniceFilmFestival has raised eyebrows with a series of moves that are being met with condemnation

in California in 1978 but fled the country before sentencing and remains a fugitive from American justice. All the while, Venice continued to show little welcome to female directors, selecting only two for its 21-film competition roster this year.

In an era when Hollywood has little tolerance for talent swept up in a #MeToo scandal — as when Amazonamid resurfaced allegations from his daughter Dylan Farrow that he molested her when she was 7 — and even notoriously macho Cannes has made strides with female award winners, Venice stands alone as the last major un-woke film festival.

Jackowiski adds that she isn't calling for a ban on films from "problematic" men but says "the issues surrounding them should be discussed, and their films should be seen in that context."from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For his sophomore feature, Parker couldn't land traditional Hollywood funding and relied on financing from Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar, a former investor and board member of The Weinstein Co.

 

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This is the most ridiculous article I’ve ever read 😂😂😂

You mean, they're the only festival who aren't succumbing to bullying, PC pressure, and other BS influences. They can celebrate the art. Such a stupid article driven by even dumber motives. It's not either or. You can program the films you want & still support women in film.

gender parity pledge lol

No one cares. Virtue signaling is literally meaningless and has nothing to do with artistic expression.

This is a despicable article equating a wholly innocent and acquitted Parker with the teen sodomist Polanski. To say nothing of the manufactured outrage of the former vs the ongoing legal manhunt of the latter

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