Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has dropped a proposal to evict an independent film cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land . The Miami Herald reports.
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has dropped a proposal to evict an independent film cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. The Miami Herald reports that the vast majority of attendees—and five out of six city commissioners—opposed the mayor’s proposal at a «raucous» city commission meeting Wednesday. Meiner called for canceling O Cinema’s lease and pulling funding after it showed the documentary on the destruction of Palestinian villages in the West Bank. He said Wednesday that he would withdraw the proposal and support an alternative proposal to encourage the cinema to «highlight a fair and balanced viewpoint.»
The mayor of Miami Beach is trying to evict an independent film cinema for showing the winner of this year’s Oscar for best documentary feature film.
