Commentary: A new US visa requirement is silencing foreign filmmakers
by Simon Kilmurry, Los Angeles Times
Dec 10, 2019
3 minutes
Social media is indispensable to many foreign documentary filmmakers. It is the way they connect with the subjects of their films, research the stories they are telling and share their work with global audiences. But the Trump administration's new visa application requirements are now leaving these filmmakers with little choice but to censor their online speech if they ever want to be able to present their films in person to U.S. audiences.
To stop this dangerous and unconstitutional overreach, the International Documentary Association and Doc
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