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CONTROVERSIAL ANIMATED FILM TO BE FRANCE'S OSCAR ENTRY
Tuesday, September 18 2007
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The award-winning animated film Persepolis, which tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up at the time of the Islamic revolution, has been selected as France's entry in the 2008 Oscars for best foreign-language film. The film took the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year and has been selected to close the New York Film Festival next month. Nevertheless, it has been denounced by Iranian officials, who demanded that it be yanked from the state-sponsored Bangkok International Film Festival, where it had been selected as the opening film. The decision of the BIFF to agree to the Iranian demands raised questions about the artistic integrity of film festivals that depend on government -- and hence, political -- funding.
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CONTROVERSIAL IRANIAN FILM TO CLOSE N.Y. FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, August 16 2007
The
Iranian
animated
film
Persepolis,
which
tied
for
the
Cannes
Film
Festival's
Jury
Award
last
May
despite
protests
from
the
Iranian
government,
but
was
yanked
from
last
month's
Bangkok
Film
Festival
following
similar
protests
by
Iranian
officials,
has
been
scheduled
to
close
the
New
York
Film
Festival
on
October
14,
organizers
said
Wednesday.
They
did
not
indicate
whether
they
had
heard
from
Iranian
representatives.
The
film
by
Vincent
Paronnaud
and
Marjane
Satrapi,
about
a
girl
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SEAN PENN TO APPEAR IN MOVIE CRITICAL OF IRAN
Thursday, July 12 2007
Sean
Penn,
who
controversially
visited
Iran
as
a
journalist
during
the
2005
presidential
elections
there
and
wrote
a
series
of
articles
for
the
San
Francisco
Chronicle
about
his
experiences,
will
lend
his
voice
to
the
U.S.
version
of
Persepolis,
the
animated
film
that
won
the
Jury
Prize
at
this
year's
Cannes
Film
Festival.
(The
film
has
become
a
smash
hit
in
France,
where
it
has
earned
$3.7
million
over
the
past
two
weeks
in
about
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