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The Sundance Film Festival, held in the US state of Utah, witnessed a march against the Israeli war on Gaza, joined by Mexican Hollywood stars Melissa Barrera and American Indya Moore.
The “Palestinian Resilience” group had previously called for organizing the march. Although the temperature was close to zero in Park City, local media confirmed that the gathering had begun on the main street of the city since early morning, as the protesters sent a message to artists, creators, and arts patrons to support Gaza and demand an end to the Israeli war on the Strip.
“The Palestinian people continue to use art as a form of resistance against the Israeli occupation,” the protest organizers wrote in an Instagram post on January 12. “From the paintings and writings on the apartheid wall that divides the occupied territories, to the songs and poems that use pens as their weapons.” “The Palestinians showed us what hope and resilience look like.”
Stars Melissa Barrera and Indya Moore joined the protest that was held on Sunday evening, January 21, 2024, while they were there. In Park City for the premiere of their two new films, Moore’s “Ponyboi” and Barrera’s “Your Monster.”
The presence of the two actresses comes as part of their efforts to support the Palestinian cause since last October 7, which led to Barrera being excluded from starring in the seventh part of the movie “Scream” – despite her starring role in the fifth and sixth parts of the series – because of her condemnation of what is happening in Gaza through her accounts on Social networks.
Unannounced seminar
The “Palestinian Resilience” group had called for the demonstration to be held next Friday, but they decided to change its date to Sunday, coinciding with The date of holding an American Orthodox Jewish organization, a partner of the Sundance Film Festival, is an expanded symposium entitled “Deadly Metaphors about Jews and Israel on Television, Film, and the Media,” a symposium that has not been officially announced in any of the festival’s schedules of events.
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The “Palestinian Resilience” group also called for a car march on the afternoon of Friday, January 26, in a convoy heading to the Utah state government headquarters.
The statement, which was published on the group’s Instagram page, justified the march by saying, “The legislative representatives in the state of Utah have consistently ignored the people’s calls for a ceasefire. They want to act as if this is not the state’s problem.” The group added in its statement, “It is time to make them understand that “Life will not go on normally until Palestine is liberated.”
