{"id":5755,"date":"2012-06-13T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2012-06-13T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:06:44","slug":"chinese-delegation-pulls-out-of-docfest-over-ai-weiwei-film","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/chinese-delegation-pulls-out-of-docfest-over-ai-weiwei-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Delegation Pulls Out of Doc\/Fest over Ai Weiwei Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realscreen.com\/2012\/06\/13\/exclusive-chinese-delegation-pulls-out-of-docfest\/#ixzz1xhgZlq26\" target=\"_blank\"><em>realscreen<\/em> reports today<\/a> that &#8220;[a] delegation of 10 Chinese commissioning editors has pulled out of attending Sheffield Doc\/Fest at the last minute, after the UK festival refused demands from the Chinese Embassy in London to drop Alison Klayman\u2019s doc <a href=\"http:\/\/aiweiweineversorry.com\/\"><em>Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry<\/em><\/a> from its program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50zS4ImnEFo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><em>realscreen<\/em> reports: &#8220;Two \u2018meet the commissioners\u2019 conference sessions were due to take place during the festival this week, in a bid to help Western producers and commissioners learn about working and coproducing with China.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood, however, that when the Chinese embassy in London learned that\u00a0<em>Never Sorry<\/em>\u00a0and Steve Maing\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/high-tech-low-life\">High Tech, Low Life<\/a><\/em>\u00a0were part of the screening program, it contacted Doc\/Fest directly, demanding that the screenings be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Glennie, Doc\/Fest\u2019s marketing and business director, told\u00a0<em>realscreen<\/em>: \u201cOn the day before the festival opened, our office received a phone call from the Chinese Embassy in London directly asking us to cancel the screenings of\u00a0<em>Ai Weiwei<\/em>, which I said was something we could not do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aiweiweineversorry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry<\/em><\/a>, about the dissident Chinese artist, will air on <em>Independent Lens<\/em> next season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>realscreen reports today that &#8220;[a] delegation of 10 Chinese commissioning editors has pulled out of attending Sheffield Doc\/Fest at the last minute, after the UK festival refused demands from the Chinese Embassy in London to drop Alison Klayman\u2019s doc Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry from its program.&#8221; realscreen reports: &#8220;Two \u2018meet the commissioners\u2019 conference sessions were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1281,818],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-5755","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-in-the-news","tag-independent-film"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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