{"id":1810764,"date":"2023-01-19T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810764"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:20:23","slug":"variety-woke-festivals-punish-problematic-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/variety-woke-festivals-punish-problematic-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety: Woke Festivals Punish \u201cProblematic\u201d Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvariety-woke-festivals-punish-problematic-films%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/the-unredacted-film-festivals-problematic-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Hollywood press is just as biased against conservatives than NPR, The New York Times, and other similar outlets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worse than that, though.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment reporters have either been passive observers as the woke revolution swept through Hollywood and cheered on freedom speech suppression.\u00a0Take a look at how websites like Variety, TheWrap.com and The Hollywood Reporter present speech-related narratives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Netflix employees are staging a walkout protesting the streamer\u2019s defense of Dave Chappelle\u2019s stand-up special rife with transphobic and homophobic commentary. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetflixWalkout?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NetflixWalkout<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DNnTQcfSj6\">https:\/\/t.co\/DNnTQcfSj6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7HTSKQA8Oo\">pic.twitter.com\/7HTSKQA8Oo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1450889350661632001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Next, add up the number of passionate op eds supporting comedians&#8217; rights to tell their jokes in their own way. It&#8217;s a great feat to find any.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the case of Meg Smaker\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/secret-behind-jihad-rehab-comeback-cancel-culture\/\">Jihad Rehab<\/a>\u201d Reporters from Hollywood are beginning to see the horrors of woke groupthink.<\/p>\n<p>Finally.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows four Guantanamo bay detainees as their struggles to reintegrate society. It won a slot at the Sundance Film Festival and received rave reviews before the woke Left took over.<\/p>\n<p>Critics complained a white woman like Smaker had no business directing a film about Muslim culture, ignoring Smaker\u2019s extensive ties to the Arab world. Others said the film could put the participants in danger even though they were informed about the film\u2019s content and had the ability to decline Smaker\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Many critics hadn\u2019t even seen the film but still attempted to silence it.<\/p>\n<p>This embarrassing spectacle continues to cause havoc. Team Sundance has apologized for showing the film last season. The cancellation was still covered by liberal news outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times with a sense of outrage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/bodied-review\/\"><strong>RELATED: \u2018BODIED\u2019 KNOCKS OUT IDENTITY POLITICS COLD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Variety tells a different story. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/festivals\/film-festivals-controversial-movies-jihad-rehab-1235491953\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film festivals now avoid \u201cproblematic\u201d films<\/a>. Festivals are meant to be a space where artists can talk freely, explore controversial topics, and engage with the public without worrying about box-office numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s festivals steer clear of films that might provoke a minority of the woke brigade.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is happening now. \u201cmicroscope of scrutiny,\u201d Marc Simon, a veteran film finance lawyer, observes: \u201cThese are complicated times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In fact, that quick-to-capitulate reflex underscores a new, unspoken modus operandi in which festivals \u2014 once the bastion of provocative, button-pushing fare \u2014 are desperate to avoid controversy and the wrath of any identity-focused Twitter mob.<\/p>\n<p>Terracino is a gay filmmaker whose most recent film, &#8220;The Last Man Standing&#8221;, is the focus of this story. \u201cWaking Up Dead,\u201d Multiple festivals rejected him, even gay-friendly galas that had previously accepted his work.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not an accident, Terracino says.<\/p>\n<p>The director claims some were offended that his film\u2019s gay lead held transphobic views at first, and that the character \u201cbonds with a white woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I am, a gay Latino filmmaker, and I have to answer about bull**** racial politics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar \u201cproblematic\u201d films are a non-starter for many festivals today, we\u2019re told. Terracino warns fellow liberals about what lies ahead in the raging cultural wars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of artists of color very soon are going to regret this woke ideology,\u201d Terracino says.<\/p>\n<p>Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, as well as other entertainment news outlets, will follow suit? Variety&#8217;s article on festivals, and recent coverage that allows for free speech \u201cJihad Rehab,\u201d This suggests they may.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood press is just as biased against conservatives than NPR, The New York Times, and other similar outlets. It\u2019s worse than that, though. Entertainment reporters have either been passive observers as the woke revolution swept through Hollywood and cheered on freedom speech suppression.\u00a0Take a look at how websites like Variety, TheWrap.com and The Hollywood &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1810767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[15643,5458,3866,6958,8321,3819,11374,5558],"class_list":["post-1810764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-problematic","tag-bongino","tag-festivals","tag-films","tag-punish","tag-report","tag-variety","tag-woke"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}