What Do You Think – Director Gets Child Porn Charges for Airing “A Serbian Film” in Spain?
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Spanish newspaper El Pais is reporting that the Sitges Film Festival’s director – Angel Sala – has been charged with the exhibition of child pornography for screening A Serbian Film at the October 2010 festival in Barcelona.
This is a developing story so it’s unclear whether the Spanish court will accept the case or if the charges would stick. But remember – we’re not talking about the filmmaker here. This is the director of the Sitges Film Festival which seems utterly ridiculous.
The film is about a retired porn actor who is lured into making an underground porno movie and it some of it involves having sex with children.
The two scenes causing the stir (one with a baby, one a small child) were by all accounts filmed with a doll and/or animatronics instead of on-screen minors. No child was put in harm’s way. In
If this should go through, Angel Sala could spend a year in jail for screening a film – and everything could change for independent and new filmmakers. Censorship is Bad, mmkay?
http://www.gorestruly.com/2011/03/10/a-serbian-film-brings-child-porn-charges-in-barcelona/
Best answer:
Answer by Flivver
Not all censorship is bad, mmkay.
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