We don’t need another blacklist.
We applaud the Toronto International Film Festival for including the Israeli film community in the Festival’s City to City program. The visiting filmmakers represent a dynamic national cinema, the best of Israel’s open, uncensored, artistic expression. Anyone who has actually seen recent Israeli cinema, movies that are political and personal, comic and tragic, often critical, knows they are in no way a propaganda arm for any government policy. Blacklisting them only stifles the exchange of cultural knowledge that artists should be the first to defend and protect. Those who refuse to see these films for themselves or prevent them from being seen by others are violating a cherished right shared by Canada and all democratic countries.
Marty Adelstein - Producer Richard Frankie - Eric Kranzler Zvi Howard Rosenman - Dan Adler - Entrepreneur Television Executive Adam Krentzman - Producer Producer Michael Adler - Attorney Billy Friedkin - Director Lisa Kudrow - Actress Michael Rotenberg - Jonas Agin - Writer, Producer David Fury - Producer Sherry Lansing - Philanthropist Manager, Producer Jason Alexander - Actor, Director Bob Gale - Writer, Producer Robert Lantos - Producer, Patricia Rozema - Director, Adam Arkin - Actor, Director Gary Gersh - Manager Serendipity Point Films Producer, Writer Jeff Astrof - Writer, Producer Andy Gershon - Manager Jim Leonard - Writer, Producer David Sacks - Writer, Producer Jon Avnet - Producer, Director Cliff Gilbert-Lurie - Attorney Michael Levine - Partner, Ken Sanzel - Writer, Director, Allison Band - Agent Richard Gladstein - Producer Goodmans LLP Producer Tom Barad - Producer Jonathan Glickman - President, Jerry Levine - Actor, Jerry Seinfeld - Entertainer Laszlo Barna - Producer Spyglass Entertainment Director, Producer Jonathan Shikora - Attorney Glen Basner - Mia Goldman - Writer, Director Art Levitt - CEO Animation Lab Roger L. Simon - Screenwriter Filmnation Entertainment Howard Gordon - Producer Jon Liebman - Chief Executive Jane Sindell - Producer Lawrence Bender - Producer Mark Gordon - Producer Officer, Brillstein Ed Solomon - Writer, Producer Gail Berman - Producer Davis Guggenheim - Director Entertainment Partners Cheryl Snow - Attorney Howard M. Bernstein - Craig Haffner - Producer Jonathan Littman - President, Darren Star - Writer, Producer Business Manager Patricia Heaton - Actor, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Television Danny Sussman - Allison Binder - Attorney Andrew Hersh - David Lonner - Manager Talent Manager Roger Birnbaum - Producer Literary Manager Doug Mankoff - Producer Nina Tassler - President, Peter Block - Producer Ken Hertz - Attorney Dan McDermott - Writer CBS Entertainment Michael Borkow - Writer Jason Hoffs - Producer Neal H. Moritz - Producer Tom Teicholz - Producer Brannon Braga - Producer David Hunt - Robert S. Nathan - Producer Michael Tolkin - Writer, Director Joshua Brand - Writer Actor, Producer, Director Stephen Nemeth - Producer Jessica Tuchinsky - Producer David Brandes - Writer, Producer Matisyahu - Entertainer David Nevins - President, Jon Turteltaub - Director, Stewart Brookman - Attorney Michael Jackson - Producer Imagine Television Producer Stanley M. Brooks - Producer Ellis Jacob - CEO, Cineplex Guy Oseary- Manager, Producer George F. Walker - Writer Dan Bucatinsky - Entertainment Marc Platt - Producer David Weber - Attorney Writer, Actor, Producer Nina Jacobson - Producer Natalie Portman - Actress Robert Weide - Producer, Mark Burton - Chip Johannessen - Producer Bruce M. Ramer - Attorney Director, Writer President, IndieVest Pictures Nathan Kahane - Paul Reiser - Actor, Writer Bernie Weinraub - Writer Gloria Carlin - Actress President, Mandate Pictures Ivan Reitman - Producer David N. Weiss - Writer, John Carls - Producer Marty Kaplan - David Renzer - Chairman & Vice President - Writers Guild of Lionel Chetwynd - Norman Lear Professor, Chief Executive Officer, Universal America, West Writer, Director USC Annenberg School Music Publishing Group David Weissman - Writer Sacha Baron Cohen - Entertainer Evan Katz - Producer Jacob Richler - Writer Sandy Wernick - Partner, Etan Cohen - Writer Andrea King - Screenwriter Noah Richler - Writer Brillstein Entertainment Partners Manny Coto - Producer Barbie Kligman - Writer/Producer & Broadcaster Amotz Zakai - Producer David Cronenberg - Director Lenny Kravitz - Entertainer Saul Rubinek - Actor, Director Moses Znaimer - Media Sean Daniel - Producer Jay Kogen - Writer, Doug Robinson - Producer Innovator David Diamond - Writer Producer, Director Shep Rosenman - Attorney Ed Zwick - Director Joel Fields - Writer, Producer Brown Mandell Kogen - Writer, Producer
List in formation as of September 14, 2009
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