Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Fest Cancels Women In Cinema Venice Event; Cites Solidarity With Actors’ Strike
deadline.comSaudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has cancelled its swanky Women in Cinema gala event at the upcoming Venice Film Festival in response to the ongoing actors’ strike.
Red Sea CEO Mohammed Al Turki announced the move on his Instagram account on Monday. “Due to the actors’ strike and in solidarity with the actors.
We are unable to proceed with the Women in Cinema event,” he wrote. Venice, running from August 30 to September 9, is one of the first big film events to feel the heat of the actors’ strike, with original opening film Challengerspulled after its announcement due to the fact its key cast, topped by Zendaya, would be unlikely to attend.
Festival head Alberto Barbera has pulled together an impressive line-up nonetheless but it remains to be seen how much acting talent will be swilling around the Lido with little end in sight for the actors’ strike which began mid-July.
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