Melbourne Festival to Loach: stuff it
July 20th, 2009
Unlike their craven counterparts in Edinburgh , the organizers of the Melbourne Film Festival apparently don’t believe that Ken “Antisemitism is understandable” Loach “speaks on behalf of the film community.” The Age reports : English filmmaker Ken Loach has withdrawn his film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival because the festival receives funding from the Israeli Government. Loach told the festival if it did not reconsider the sponsorship, he would no
