More than 500 members of AMPAS, including actor Mark Ruffalo, director Ava DuVernay and Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, have signed an open letter condemning the Academy’s lack of public support for Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal following his recent detainment by Israeli authorities. The Academy released a statement Wednesday that condemned “harming artists” but failed to name which artists it was referring to.
The letter, released Thursday, calls out what the signees describe as AMPAS leadership’s failure to speak out in defense of Ballal, one of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.”
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