The situation in Myanmar remains dire, the International Coalition of Film makers at Risk (Icfr) has warned, with prominent cultural figures continuing to be imprisoned, and in some instances even killed. To date, more than 100 professionals from the local filmmaking community have been targeted for arrest, it said.
As Deadline reported in February, the country’s military forces, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power in the country after disputing an election result back in November that saw a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld.
Widespread demonstrations in response to the action saw thousands of protestors thrown in jail and reportedly more than 700 deaths, while three prominent members of the Nld also died in police custody, according to Reuters.
The Icfr said that the first day of the coup saw three writers – Than Myint Aung, Maung Thar Cho and Htin Lin Oo – arrested along with...
As Deadline reported in February, the country’s military forces, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power in the country after disputing an election result back in November that saw a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld.
Widespread demonstrations in response to the action saw thousands of protestors thrown in jail and reportedly more than 700 deaths, while three prominent members of the Nld also died in police custody, according to Reuters.
The Icfr said that the first day of the coup saw three writers – Than Myint Aung, Maung Thar Cho and Htin Lin Oo – arrested along with...
- 4/20/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Military forces have seized control of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, citing disputed claims of electoral fraud and throwing numerous high-profile figures in jail.
Among those to be imprisoned is the Nobel Prize-winning politician Aung San Suu Kyi, who helped the country transition to democracy in the 2010s and had been leading the nation as State Counsellor.
Reporting out of Myanmar has been hampered by the military’s disruption of phone and internet services, and local TV stations are also off air, but several publications have written that other figures believed to have been detained include the filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who has previously spent time behind bars as a political prisoner for his criticism of the military, and the writer Maung Thar Cho.
Tensions have been bubbling in the country since a November election which saw a landslide win for Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld,...
Among those to be imprisoned is the Nobel Prize-winning politician Aung San Suu Kyi, who helped the country transition to democracy in the 2010s and had been leading the nation as State Counsellor.
Reporting out of Myanmar has been hampered by the military’s disruption of phone and internet services, and local TV stations are also off air, but several publications have written that other figures believed to have been detained include the filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who has previously spent time behind bars as a political prisoner for his criticism of the military, and the writer Maung Thar Cho.
Tensions have been bubbling in the country since a November election which saw a landslide win for Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld,...
- 2/1/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Grants of between $500 to $3,000 are being donated towards filmmakers personally affected by the blast.
Filmfest Hamburg will be donating the money it would have spent on bouquets of flowers for its guests at this year’s festival to the Lebanese filmmaking community affected by the August 4 explosion.
The festival has joined forces with the Ford Foundation, the Sundance Institute, Perspective Film Fund, Doc Society, and International Media Support (Ims) in supporting the Beirut DC organisation in its launch of the Beirut Filmmakers and Film-workers Relief Fund.
Grants of between $500 to $3,000 are being donated towards the costs of house repairs, relocation...
Filmfest Hamburg will be donating the money it would have spent on bouquets of flowers for its guests at this year’s festival to the Lebanese filmmaking community affected by the August 4 explosion.
The festival has joined forces with the Ford Foundation, the Sundance Institute, Perspective Film Fund, Doc Society, and International Media Support (Ims) in supporting the Beirut DC organisation in its launch of the Beirut Filmmakers and Film-workers Relief Fund.
Grants of between $500 to $3,000 are being donated towards the costs of house repairs, relocation...
- 9/30/2020
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Helen Mirren, Jafar Panahi lend support to new initiative focused on filmmakers in danger.
The European Film Academy (Efa), the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) are joining forces to create the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, a permanent organisation aimed at supporting filmmakers facing political persecution for their work.
The body would advocate for film professionals who have been imprisoned, face prosecution or censorship for their work and views.
The final framework is still being developed but its remit would include running coordinated campaigns publicising the cases of filmmakers in peril and providing legal representation.
The European Film Academy (Efa), the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) are joining forces to create the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, a permanent organisation aimed at supporting filmmakers facing political persecution for their work.
The body would advocate for film professionals who have been imprisoned, face prosecution or censorship for their work and views.
The final framework is still being developed but its remit would include running coordinated campaigns publicising the cases of filmmakers in peril and providing legal representation.
- 11/19/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Helen Mirren, Jafar Panahi lend support to new initiative focused on filmmakers in danger.
The European Film Academy (Efa), the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) are joining forces to create the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, a permanent organisation aimed at supporting filmmakers facing political persecution for their work.
The body would advocate for film professionals who have been imprisoned, face prosecution or censorship for their work and views.
The final framework is still being developed but its remit would include running coordinated campaigns publicising the cases of filmmakers in peril and providing legal representation.
The European Film Academy (Efa), the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) are joining forces to create the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, a permanent organisation aimed at supporting filmmakers facing political persecution for their work.
The body would advocate for film professionals who have been imprisoned, face prosecution or censorship for their work and views.
The final framework is still being developed but its remit would include running coordinated campaigns publicising the cases of filmmakers in peril and providing legal representation.
- 11/19/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is suffering from liver cancer.
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
- 10/1/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is suffering from liver cancer.
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
The organisers of Filmfest Hamburg are substituting the gifts to filmmaker guests with a financial donation towards the costs of medical expenses for the imprisoned Myanmar filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi.
The gesture, which includes bouquets of flowers at the festival’s premiere screenings and award ceremonies, is a show of solidarity with the director who is suffering from liver cancer.
Ko Ko Gyi, who is also the founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, had been in pre-trial custody since last April. He was sentenced...
- 10/1/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, whose arrest and imprisonment in Russia has been a rallying cry for the entertainment industry and human-rights groups worldwide, has been sent back to Ukraine as part of a prisoner exchange Saturday, according to news reports.
Sentsov is one of 35 Ukrainians who have been transferred from Moscow to Kiev in the first prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine since 2017, the BBC said.
Sentsov was an outspoken opponent of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian government and of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. In May 2014, he was arrested by Russian authorities at his home in Crimea, jailed for a year in Moscow, then convicted by a military court of terrorist crimes – charges that critics say were trumped up. Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
His plight has sparked protests and denunciations by human-rights groups such as Amnesty International and by members of the entertainment industry. Last year, a...
Sentsov is one of 35 Ukrainians who have been transferred from Moscow to Kiev in the first prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine since 2017, the BBC said.
Sentsov was an outspoken opponent of Ukraine’s former pro-Russian government and of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. In May 2014, he was arrested by Russian authorities at his home in Crimea, jailed for a year in Moscow, then convicted by a military court of terrorist crimes – charges that critics say were trumped up. Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
His plight has sparked protests and denunciations by human-rights groups such as Amnesty International and by members of the entertainment industry. Last year, a...
- 9/7/2019
- by Henry Chu
- Variety Film + TV
”We are gravely concerned for his health and fear for his life.”
More than 450 film professionals have signed a letter supporting Myanmar filmmaker and festival director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who was detained earlier this month in what Amnesty International called a “politically motivated” arrest.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) have released a letter calling for his release on humanitarian grounds, as he was recently treated for liver cancer. The letter is co-signed by Idfa and Iffr chiefs Orwa Nyrabia and Bero Beyer.
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was arrested...
More than 450 film professionals have signed a letter supporting Myanmar filmmaker and festival director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who was detained earlier this month in what Amnesty International called a “politically motivated” arrest.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) have released a letter calling for his release on humanitarian grounds, as he was recently treated for liver cancer. The letter is co-signed by Idfa and Iffr chiefs Orwa Nyrabia and Bero Beyer.
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was arrested...
- 4/26/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
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