The European Film Academy joins the protest against TVP’s critical introduction to its broadcast of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning film IdaThe European Film Academy has joined protests against the Polish national broadcaster TVP’s treatment of the Oscar-winning film Ida,directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, when its broadcast on 25 February was preceded by a heavily critical introduction. It follows a complaint by the Guild of Polish Directors, and expressing its “outrage” over the incident.
The EFA,which gave Ida multiple awards at its 2014 ceremony, including best film, or best director and the people’s choice award,objected strongly to the 12-minute introduction for “claiming the film to be inaccurate, alleging that it won an Oscar only because of its pro-Jewish point of view, or adding title cards in such a way that they could beget been thought to be part of the film itself”.
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Source: theguardian.com