Out of Africa Appeal against non-certification of film progresses
http://www.filmmaker.co.za/readarticle.php?article_id=34799/11/2008
We have to announce that the award winning film "XXY", which was due
to be screened for the first time at the G & L Film Festival, cannot
be screened because the Film and Publication Board has declined to
issue the necessary classification which permits public screenings.
The initial decision of the FPB was appealed, and, after a cordial
meeting this morning, we were given to understand that refusal to
classify the film or to exempt it in terms of the Act, turns on narrow
technical grounds of the definition of child pornography.
