FILM BANNED IN THAILAND NO. 1 IN FRANCE

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FILM BANNED IN THAILAND NO. 1 IN FRANCE
Wednesday, July 4 2007

Only days after it was banned by the Bangkok Film Festival, the animated film Persepolis made a sensational debut in France over the weekend, coming in ahead of a slew of Hollywood blockbusters to earn $1.8 million in 199 theaters -- or an average of $9,152 per theater. In May the film by directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud took the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. But, bowing to pressure from Iranian officials who objected to its depiction of an Iranian girl's struggle during the turmoil of the Islamic revolution and its aftermath, organizers of the Bangkok Film Festival yanked the film last week. It had been expected to open the festival on July 19. Instead, the festival is expected to announce this week that the opening film will be Andy Vajna's Children of Glory (Szabadság, szerelem), set during the aftermath of another revolution, Hungary's unsuccessful attempt to achieve independence from the Soviet Union in 1956.

BANGKOK YANKS IRANIAN FILM AFTER PROTEST BY IRANIAN OFFICIALS
Wednesday, June 27 2007
A controversial animated film by two Iranian filmmakers that drew complaints from Iranian officials when it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last month -- but nevertheless went on to win the Jury Prize -- has been removed from the Bangkok Film Festival. The film, Persepolis, directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, which tells the story of a nine-year-old girl growing up in Iran under fundamentalist restraints, had been expected to open the (more)

THAILAND GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER TV STATION; ANCHOR QUITS
Wednesday, April 25 2007
In what appeared to critics as yet another example of increasing authoritarian control of the media in Thailand, the military government that seized control last September has announced that it is turning a major TV station into an ad-free public broadcaster. The station, formerly known as iTV and, until the coup, controlled by the family of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, is being renamed Thailand Independent Television and will be operated by the Thai government. (more)

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