Todd Heinz worries the film financiers. They will not “risk” during the Trump era

The Chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, Todd Heinz, recently opened the annual celebration on Thursday, February 13, with a fateful warning from the current Trump administration.

“We are in a specific crisis now in the United States, but also globally,” he said.According to diversity).

Looking at a hail of the executive procedures that are presented by Trump, Heinz believes that anxiety about how this “will affect filming is a real question suspended on all American filmmakers.”

“Always with filmmakers in particular, the funding question is complicated,” Heinz said. “So it is also about the type of financiers who want to risk and ready to support strong sounds. I think this exists, but again, it takes positive examples and results to fortify these types of risks that people may want to tolerate.”

“Each movie is not part of a concession, content, MARVEL, or a major studio, people get to know different forms of financing and different ways to speak,” he added.

However, Heinz is not only worried about the “world of filmmaking”, but just the ability to “maintain your integrity and your point of view and speak” under your verse for doing so.

“How do we move towards avoiding the various forms of resistance are still in business and are still discovered among Democrats,” Heinz said. “I have no doubt that there will be many people who actually voted for this president who will be disappointed quickly because of the promises he made about economic stability in the United States.”

The head of the jury also indicated that during these times when cinema can be used as a tool for resistance. He had personal experience with this after he started his career in the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s.

“Since a person in his twenties was surrounded by this type of public health disaster, and watching every other person you know dies from this aggressive disease incredibly, this type of political event and a creative component has produced where filmmakers responded to what was happening in each And Heinz said: “Different types of ways.” Traditional also in style and shape. ”

Berlinali extends 75 from February 13 to February 23, when the European film market was also held there during this time, from February 13 to February 19. Heinz leads a jury consisting of Nabil Ayush, Van Benjeebing, Maria Sherrade, Pina Degeir, Rodrigo Moreno, and Amy Nicholson.