Michael Moore, Barry Jenkins, Marisa Tomei Among 600 Creatives Who Condemn ‘No Other Land’ Censorship Threat in Miami

“Your decision to punish O Cinema for screening ‘No Other Land’ is an attack on freedom of expression,” their open letter reads

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Michael Moore, Barry Jenkins and Marisa Tomei (Credit: Getty Images)

Michael Moore, Barry Jenkins, Marisa Tomei, Ezra Edelman, Phil Lord and more than 600 other members of the international filmmaking community have signed an open letter to the Mayor and City Commission of Miami Beach over their proposed censorship of “No Other Land.”

“We, the undersigned members of the international filmmaking community, write to express our deep concern and condemnation of your attempts to censor O Cinema, a local independent movie theater, for its exhibition of the Academy Award-winning documentary, ‘No Other Land,’ by withholding its funding and ending its lease,” the Monday letter reads.

“O Cinema has a long history of supporting important and diverse viewpoints that foster dialogue.

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