Toronto protesters plan press conference

September 07, 2009 The filmmaker-led protest over the Toronto International Film Festival's Tel Aviv spotlight is to include a press conference Sept. 10, on the festival's opening day. A spokesman for about 50 filmmakers, academics and activists, including Jane Fonda and Danny Glover, who last week signed an open letter criticizing Toronto for selecting Tel Aviv for its inaugural city-to-city sidebar said details on the presser are being worked out. Annemarie Jacir, the director of "Salt of This Sea," Palestine's 2008 entry into the Academy Award's best foreign-language competition, said the Israeli film spotlight will ignore a host of fellow Palestinian filmmakers who live in Tel Aviv and "even more importantly those who are indigenous to that specific area and whose families were exiled and ethnically cleansed from Jaffa/Tel Aviv."

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