PARK CITY, Utah – An anti-Israel march that included “Scream” actress Melissa Barrera disrupted the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, backing up traffic as Hollywood’s elite attended nearby movie premieres and parties.
Barrera, 33, who appeared in “Scream VI” but was fired from the seventh “Scream” film for her controversial comments about the war, joined the hour-long protest midway as it choked the historic street. main street of the city and delayed festival goers arriving at their destination. way to and from events.
Barrera was fired from the horror film in November after posting on Instagram: “Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp… THIS IS GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.”
He stars in the new Sundance film “Your Monster.”
The group of about 100 “Let Gaza Live” protesters chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and “We are tired of funding Israel! What a shame for Israel! while clutching signs that read “Butcher Biden,” “Zionism without a platform,” and “Intifada everywhere.”
A crowd chant appeared to approve the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on a music festival in Israel, where 1,200 people, mainly Israeli civilians, were killed and several hundred more were taken hostage.
“Resistance is justified when people are busy,” the crowd shouted.
Fired “Scream” actress Melissa Barrera joined the protest in Park City, Utah. Fake images for IMDb
The event was organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Association of Utah, which said in a statement: “While bombs are falling, people cannot continue watching movies on their screens ignoring a genocide in Gaza.”
Most of the protesters appeared to have come from out of town, although some festival-goers, including Barerra, also joined their ranks or honked their car horns in solidarity.
Still, at least one passerby yelled, “Go home!”
An anti-Israel protest took place during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Sunday. Johnny Oleksinski
The festival made it clear that it had no connection to the protest, adding in a statement: “While the organizers are not affiliated with the festival itself, the safety of festival goers is always a concern for us and we are constantly working on it. with local authorities to maintain a welcoming, inspiring and safe environment for all our attendees.”
On the first day of Sundance, where Hollywood gathers each January for independent film premieres, an online group called “Film Workers for Palestine” formed.
The website has garnered hundreds of signatures from people including director Mike Leigh and actresses Susan Sarandon and Alia Shawkat.
On Friday, the group tweeted: “To be clear, we consider film festivals to be wholly complicit in asserting consent to genocide. #Sundance takes money from Zionists and amplifies their views while remaining silent on Palestine.”
At the same time as the protest, about a mile away at the Ray Theater, a panel on anti-Semitism called “Cults, Lies, and Videotapes: Debunking Deadly Tropes About Jews and Israel in Television, Film, and the media”.
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