![]() ![]() It has since pledged to have a minimum quota of 30% black, Indigenous and people of color cast and crew members across all future productions. “We’re ashamed to have overlooked the issues with the film and it just proves how insidious, persistent and deeply embedded systemic racism is in Australia and in us as white Australians,” it said. The production company behind the film, Fat Salmon Productions, also issued an apology on Instagram, admitting it was wrong to have sneakily removed the problematic scene without publicly engaging with criticism first. “I intended this film to be a young girl’s journey of self-discovery in the age of internet culture, and I failed to recognise how problematic this was.” “I am so deeply sorry for creating a work that has caused offence,” she said. Scanlen has since apologised on Instagram on behalf of the whole production team. I’m sure we can rustle up a quick dark-mode notes app moment. You made time outside business hours to approve & upload the edited version of #ElizaScanlen’s Mukbang after awarding it. If you didn’t realise the image of a white person strangling a black person is horrifying, then you have not been engaged with the world in which case you should NOT be judging. Read the threadĮvery single judge on the SFF short film jury should be releasing a public statement on Mukbang. But it’s the last night tonight, so fuck em. I was too scared to say shit cos my film was part of Syd Film Fest & didnt want to jeopardise our place in the fest. Hello everyone, let it be known is my fucking hero. Other screenwriters, directors and actors including Nina Oyama, Corrie Chen and Moreblessing Maturure joined Law in calling for the Sydney Film Festival to release an official statement. “When people ask me if the system is becoming less racist, look to this.” “This film WON Best Director – an award afforded to supposed visionaries at an internationally acclaimed festival. It’s dishonest and unfair to the other films in consideration. Law said that beyond being problematic, such a move was also “dishonest and unfair” to other films in the festival.īeyond the racism and violence within the film, editing a film AFTER IT HAS WON is rigging the system. (The antagonist in the film is a Black teenage boy.) /HiyVpOCFgZįollowing initial outcry, the aforementioned scene was quietly cut from the online version of the film. ![]() She described it as a problematic “ Eat, Pray, Love for teenagers”, and also pointed to a now-deleted scene which shows the white protagonist strangling her black classmate. However, in the wake of the win, screenwriter Michelle Law commented that it was an example of “how racist and broken the screen industry is in Australia.” Scanlen had nabbed the Sydney Film Festival’s $7,000 Rouben Mamoulian Award for best short film director with Mukbang, a film about a young, white school girl who gets caught up in the Korean online trend of eating in front of a webcam.
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