Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
June 25th, 2010
New Delhi’s Central Board of Film Classification has
refused to certify the documentary
Flames of the Snow. The body stated that any film which romanticises and promotes the violence of the Maoist groups in Nepal is inappropriate viewing for the general public. The feature documents over 200 years of relations between Nepalese rebels and the Indian establishment. The director of the film, Ashish Srivastava and its Kathmandu-based producers, Group for International Solidarity, intend to
launch a campaign to oppose the banning. Another film entitled, Village of Widows, which features Benazir Bhutto vehemently criticising the Indian state and the burning of an Indian flag in Kashmir has also been
censored by the authorities.
June 25th, 2010
Nir Toib, director of a banned film which exposed an espionage scandal within the Israel Defense Forces[IDF], is to
appeal the documentary film’s banning at the Supreme Court. The Secret Kingdom features interviews with Brigadier General Yitzhak Yaakov, Israel’s first chief scientist and a former research and development head for the IDF, who is accused of espionage in the documentary. Toib refutes the military censor’s claims that the film
divulged nuclear secrets, instead arguing that the majority of the information which was cut from the original version of the film was already within the public domain.
May 11th, 2010
On 6 May, a US federal judge ruled that Chevron
could subpoena footage from “Crude”, a documentary about the company’s involvement in the pollution of the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador. Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in favour of Chevron’s request to view 600 hours of outtakes from the documentary.
Joseph Berlinger, director of the documentary, said
turning over footage to the courts would violate
journalistic privilege and undermine a lawsuit in Ecuador.
