MIFF weighs future of Chinese pics

July 27, 2009 The Melbourne International Film Festival is reconsidering how it will program Chinese movies in coming years after a quintet of pictures were withdrawn from this week's festival and the festival's website was partially disabled by hackers. The hacking -- which involved posting of a Chinese flag on the festival's homepage and hundreds of messages containing slogans -- and the withdrawals were in protest at the festival's screening of an Australian-produced documentary "10 Conditions of Love," about exiled Uighur activist Rebiyah Kadeer. A festival spokeswoman Monday said MIFF was already reconsidering how it will handle Chinese films at its 2010 edition.

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