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> FIPRESCI informs
>
> FILMMAKER TAHMINEH MILANI FACES EXECUTION
> Fellow Filmmakers Express Solidarity with Her - International Group
> Includes Jamsheed Akrami, Francis Ford Coppola, Carlos Diegues, Ali
> Kazimi, Hanif Kureishi, Ang Lee, Raoul Peck, Martin Scorsese, Steven
> Soderbergh, and Many Others.
>
>
> Iranian Filmmaker Tahmineh Milani, who was arrested then released on
> bail earlier this fall, faces execution if convicted in an upcoming
> trial in Tehran.
>
> Ms. Milani was arrested on the orders of Iran's Revolutionary Council
> as she was promoting the film The Hidden Half, which she wrote and
> directed. The Hidden Half depicts internal struggle within Iran soon
> after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ms. Milani has been charged with
> supporting factions waging war against God, and misusing the arts in
> support of counterrevolutionary and armed opposition groups. The
> Revolutionary Council has previously ordered the arrest of
> journalists and other cultural figures, but this is the first time it
> has taken direct action against a filmmaker.
>
> One of Iran's best-known filmmakers, Tahmineh Milani has written and
> directed films including The Legend of a Sigh (1991), What Else Is
> New? (1992), and Two Women (1999), in addition to The Hidden Half
> (2001). She is well-known for taking strong feminist positions in
> both films and public appearances.
>
> Mr. Mohammad Khatami, the President of Iran, personally supported Ms.
> Milani's release on bail. Like all domestically produced Iranian
> films, The Hidden Half went through intense censorship processes.  It
> was then approved by the Ministry of Culture and released to
> theatres. For the director then to be arrested for the content of the
> film seemed, as Mr. Khatami himself put it at the time, unfair to say
> the least.
>
>
> Facets Multimedia of Chicago released a declaration of solidarity
> with Ms. Milani signed by dozens of filmmakers from around the world.
> The filmmakers who have signed include such eminent directors as
> Jamsheed Akrami, Hisham Bizri, John Boorman, Francis Ford Coppola,
> Jonathan Demme, Carlos Diegues, Ali Kazimi, Hanif Kureishi, Ang Lee,
> Spike Lee, Lucrecia Martel, Raoul Peck, Martin Scorsese, Steven
> Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, plus many other directors, producers,
> actors, and other filmmakers. The filmmakers come from across the
> Middle East, North America, Asia, Europe, and South America.
>
> The declaration has been sent to Mr. Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme
> Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Mr. Mohammad Khatami, the
> President of Iran; Mr. Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi, the Head of the
> Judiciary; Mr. Masjed Jamee, the Minister of Culture and Islamic
> Guidance; and many other dignitaries and interested parties.
>
> Facets Multimedia coordinated this declaration of solidarity because
> of long-time commitments to promoting and distributing Iranian
> cinema, to human rights, and to the freedom of artists.
>
> Other filmmakers, organizations, and individuals who would like to
> express their solidarity with Ms. Milani are invited to send faxes to
> His Excellency Mr. Mohammad Khatami, President of the Islamic
> Republic of Iran, at 98 21 649 5886; His Excellency Mr. Mahmoud
> Hashemi Shahrudi, Minister of Justice, at 98 21 646 5242; His
> Excellency Mr. Masjed Jamee, Minister of Culture and Islamic
> Guidance, at 98 21 391 3535; Mr. Mohebbi, President of the Farabi
> Cinema Foundation, at 98 21 670 8155; and Ray Privett of Facets
> Multimedia at 1 773 929 5437. They are also invited to sign the
> petition online at www.facets.org/petition.html, a website with links
> that will be updated as new information related to Ms. Tahmineh
> Milani's case becomes available.
>
> An article offering more information about Tahmineh Milani's case
> appeared in the October 26, 2001 edition of The Los Angeles Times.
>
> For further information, please contact Ray Privett at 1 800 331 6197
> or ray at facets.org.
>
>
> The Declaration of Solidarity reads as follows:
>
> FILMMAKERS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH TAHMINEH MILANI
>
> As fellow members of the film community we were outraged to learn of
> the recent arrest of Tahmineh Milani by the Islamic Government of
> Iran. This is the first time the current Iranian government has taken
> such action against a filmmaker. Although she has been released on
> bail, charges against her have not been dropped. We wish to express
> our solidarity with her.
>
> John Akomfrah, Jamsheed Akrami, Angela Alston, Roy Andersson, Ben
> Barenholtz, Alan Berliner, Hisham Bizri, Peter Bogdanovich, John
> Boorman, St. Clair Bourne, Geoff Bowie, Catherine Breillat, Alden
> Brigham, Charles Burnett, Laura Colella, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia
> Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Jonathan Demme, Dominique Deruddere,
> Carlos Diegues, Faye Dunaway, Morgan Evans, Leonard Farlinger, Harun
> Farocki, Ivan Fila, James Fotopoulos, William Friedkin, Richard Fung,
> John Gianvito, Jill Godmilow, Marina Goldovskaya, Gaylene Gould, Lina
> Gopaul, John Greyson, Rajko Grlic, Erik Gunneson, David Hare, Joseph
> Hillel, Agnieszka Holland, Ted Hope, Richard Horowitz, Magnus
> Isacsson, Sharifa Johka, Jennifer Jonas, Jon Jost, Peter Kaufman,
> Philip Kaufman, Kees Kasander, Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Kastenbaum,
> Ali Kazimi, Hanif Kureishi, Valerie Lalonde, David Lawson, Richard
> Leacock, Ang Lee, Helen Lee, Spike Lee, Nancy Lefkowitz, Mike Leigh,
> Joshua Leonard, Steven Lippman, Lech Majewski, Dusan Makavejev, Chris
> Marker, Loren Marsh, Lucrecia Martel, Pier Marton, Jim McKay, Nina
> Menkes, Joe Moulins, Jag Mohan Mundhra, Alice Nellis, Jan Nemec,
> Denise Ohio, Katrin Ottarsdottir, Raoul Peck, Robin Wright Penn, Sean
> Penn, Marguerite Pigott, Mark Rappaport, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Julia
> Reichert, Francoise Romand, Shiva Rose, Ken Russell, Helma
> Sanders-Brahms, James Schamus, Richard Schenkman, Paul Schrader,
> Barbet Schroeder, Sandra Schulberg, Martin Scorsese, Peter Sellars,
> Franci Slak, Steven Soderbergh, Ines Sommer, Stanislav Stanojevic,
> Jos Stelling, Oliver Stone, Leslie Thornton, Blaine Thurier, Jacob
> Tierney, John Walker, Karen Walton, Elizabeth Westrate, Bellamy Young.
>
> ---------------------
> Forwarded by FIPRESCI
>
>
> Klaus Eder
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