{"id":3050,"date":"2018-02-25T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/02\/25\/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-thinks-the-last-men-in-aleppo-crew-should-absolutely-be-allowed-to-attend-the-oscars-watch\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:58:27","slug":"alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-thinks-the-last-men-in-aleppo-crew-should-absolutely-be-allowed-to-attend-the-oscars-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/02\/25\/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-thinks-the-last-men-in-aleppo-crew-should-absolutely-be-allowed-to-attend-the-oscars-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu Thinks the \u2018Last Men in Aleppo\u2019 Crew Should \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Be Allowed to Attend the Oscars \u2014 Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu\">Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a> is one of only three filmmakers to win the Academy Award for Best Director two years in a row, which is to say he knows a good deal about attending the actual ceremony. And though he isn&#8217;t the type of celebrity you expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/02\/22\/alejandro-inarritu-director-oscars-last-men-in-aleppo-travel-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TMZ<\/a> to ambush at the airport with timely questions, he was nevertheless asked his opinion on the Oscar-nominated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/last-men-in-aleppo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-men-in-aleppo\">Last Men in Aleppo<\/a>&#8221; crew being denied visas to make their way to next week&#8217;s ceremony \u2014 and thinks they &#8220;absolutely&#8221; should be allowed to.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/02\/last-men-in-aleppo-oscars-visa-1201931817\/\" title=\"\u2018POV\u2019 Joins the Academy in Solidarity with Visa-Denied \u2018Last Men in Aleppo\u2019 Producer\">\u2018POV\u2019 Joins the Academy in Solidarity with Visa-Denied \u2018Last Men in Aleppo\u2019 Producer<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that. It&#8217;s insane,&#8221; a clearly surprised\u00a0I\u00f1\u00e1rritu says when first asked about the situation. &#8220;Absolutely, I think so \u2014 unless the directors are considered criminals,&#8221; which they&#8217;re not.\u00a0Syria will not expedite the travel visas of producer Kareem Abeed and star Mahmoud Al-Hattar, making it extremely unlikely they&#8217;ll be able to attend. \u201cWhen we are banned, then the freedom of expression is banned,\u201d the film\u2019s director, Feras Fayyad, recently told IndieWire, referring to the situation as \u201cvery sad and unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/02\/last-men-in-aleppo-director-feras-fayyad-might-skip-the-oscars-after-his-producer-and-star-are-blocked-from-visiting-the-u-s-1201928845\/\" title=\"\u2018Last Men in Aleppo\u2019: Director Feras Fayyad Might Skip the Oscars After His Producer and Star Are Blocked from Visiting the U.S.\">\u2018Last Men in Aleppo\u2019: Director Feras Fayyad Might Skip the Oscars After His Producer and Star Are Blocked from Visiting the U.S.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Fayyad has also said that he may skip the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/oscars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oscars\">Oscars<\/a> in solidarity with Abeed and Al-Hattar.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu is one of only three filmmakers to win the Academy Award for Best Director two years in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Nc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}