1,300 Hollywood and international figures boycott Israeli film companies

More than 1,300 artists, including Hollywood and international A-listers like Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed and Javier Bardem, have promised not to work with Israeli film companies they say are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”, Euronews writes.

The artists – actors, directors, screenwriters and producers – have signed a pledge created by Film Makers for Palestine and decry the “unrelenting horror” in Gaza.

Other big names in film to have signed the pledge include Ken Loach, Yórgos Lánthimos, Asif Kapadia, Joshua Oppenheimer, Lily Gladstone, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O’Connor, Rebecca Hall, Benedict Wong, Gael García Bernal, and Susan Sarandon.

“As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions,” the statement reads. “In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.”