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If China is pressuring someone, that's a person whose works should be shown across America.
Yeah that seems like it should be the case, right? This particular event does look like just an indie film fest that should've gone ahead to me.
But plenty of chinese dissidents are right wing lunatics. A lot are fundementalist christians or say, explicitly pro fascist meditation cults who fund trump and orban and claim to levitate, like the falun gong.
If you look at the damage the substantially far-right cuban expat community have done to politics in florida and pressuring towards bad policies and war nationally, id be more careful about which anti-china voices to empower.
Well that sucks. It’s not even clear what was going to be shown that had the CCP so pissy
Winnie the Pooh: Electric Boogaloo 2
Can you lnk me the first one?
I hadn't heard about this before this morning.
Now I want to watch everything that was going to be presented.
You know you're winning at life and on the right side of history when you threaten people's families to prevent them from showing an indie movie.
Zhu said the requests primarily came from directors based in China, who cited “personal reasons” for changing their mind about screening their films. Directors based outside China said their families back home had been contacted by the Chinese authorities, a common way of applying pressure to people beyond its borders.
Ah I see. So it's films made in China, being shown in NY for their film fest.
Similar to America and Banning Books, these films now have when more attention as films China doesn't want Americans to see!