Having invited 91 countries to submit films, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday that a record 58 took the Academy up on its offer. Three countries that had not previously been represented submitted films: Costa Rica, which offered Esteban Ramirez's Caribe; Fiji, which submitted Vilsoni Hereniko's The Land Has Eyes; and Iraq, which entered Jamil Rostami's Requiem of Snow. Several movies arrive in the wake of local controversies. Christian Carion's Joyeux Noel, from France, had drawn a formal complaint from France's independent producers union, the Societe des Producteurs Independants, claiming that the choice of film -- by a seven-member selection committee appointed by the state's funding body, the Center National de la Cinematographie -- was "politically motivated." The SPI, lacking legal recourse, has since backed off. When Italy's first submission, Saverio Costanzo's Private, was ruled ineligible by the Academy because none of its dialogue is in Italian, Italy submitted Cristina Comencini's La bestia nel cuore.
- 10/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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