Doesn’t fit the narrative. Comrades, we will decide what films you will watch and once a year you can have popcorn on National Popcorn day.
Via WFB
A documentarian is accusing a Minnesota film festival of political bias after it cancelled a screening of a documentary supporting the environmental and economic cases for hydraulic fracturing, an innovative oil and gas extraction technique.
The documentary, FrackNation, was scheduled to be shown alongside Gasland Part 2, a factually suspect film attacking hydraulic fracturing as environmentally destructive.
“We definitely had a lot of discussions about it with our board, with some people in our community wanting to see FrackNation, other people wanting to see Gasland Part II,” said Kathy Florin, assistant director of the Frozen River Film Festival.
However, festival organizers announced on Friday that its FrackNation screening had been cancelled.
They cited allegations that FrackNation’s creators have ties to the oil and gas industry and said they had reneged on an agreement to speak at the screening, which the filmmakers say is also untrue.
The filmmakers deny both charges and said ideological opposition to hydraulic fracturing among the festival’s organizers led to the cancellation.
“The film festival organizers seem to hate alternative points of view, they seem to want to quash diversity,” said FrackNation creator Phelim McAleer in a statement. “They seem to be scared of the truth.”
“These people are cultural censors and don’t want the truth about fracking to be shown to audiences,” he added.
Mike Kennedy, chairman of the festival’s board, told the Winona Daily News that he “doesn’t want to be a censor.”
“We really had to search our soul,” Kennedy said. “We’ve never cancelled a film.”