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Sundance Offers Half-Hearted Response to Boycott

Started by Shana A, December 05, 2008, 07:37:57 AM

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Sundance Offers Half-Hearted Response to Boycott
by: mworthen
Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 20:23:41 PM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8504

Although I still oppose the campaign to boycott the Sundance Film Festival, I was disappointed to read Sundance officials' tepid response in yesterday's New York Times article about the Festival, the relevant portion of which is:
mworthen :: Sundance Offers Half-Hearted Response to Boycott

    Mr. Cooper and Mr. Gilmore said festival officials were stepping carefully around demands that they cooperate with a boycott of businesses associated with supporters of California's Proposition 8, banning gay marriage.

    The festival, for instance, will make certain that no film is screened only in the Holiday Village theater in Park City, operated by Cinemark, a chain whose chief executive, Alan Stock, donated to Proposition 8's backers in the November election. The idea is to give anyone who has qualms about Cinemark the opportunity to see a movie somewhere else.
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