{"id":2310588,"date":"2026-03-03T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2310588"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:07:08","slug":"berlinales-tricia-tuttle-backed-by-32-global-film-festival-bosses-in-open-letter-supporting-freedom-of-expression-has-never-been-more-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/berlinales-tricia-tuttle-backed-by-32-global-film-festival-bosses-in-open-letter-supporting-freedom-of-expression-has-never-been-more-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale\u2019s Tricia Tuttle Backed By 32 Global Film Festival Bosses in Open Letter: \u201cSupporting Freedom of Expression Has Never Been More Important\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Global film festival bosses, including Cannes\u2019 Thierry Fr\u00e9maux<\/a> and Sundance<\/a>\u2019s Eugene Hernandez<\/a>, have published a statement throwing their support behind Tricia Tuttle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand in support of Tricia Tuttle\u2019s wish to continue as Berlinale Festival Director, in full trust and with institutional independence,\u201d began the letter signed by 32 execs at the helm of the world\u2019s most prestigious film festivals, from London and Telluride to Toronto and San Sebastian.<\/p>\n

The statement comes amid German media reports that Tuttle is about to be fired following political backlash over pro-Palestinian speeches at the Berlinale awards ceremony. This, in turn, follows a politically charged 2026 edition of the film fest, where talent were bombarded with questions on the rise of fascism, the war in Gaza, and the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The letter from festival bosses says \u201cwe are required to navigate the fact that \u2018everyone\u2019 can include people with political and personal views that don\u2019t always align,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global film festival bosses, including Cannes\u2019 Thierry Fr\u00e9maux and Sundance\u2019s Eugene Hernandez, have published a statement throwing their support behind Tricia Tuttle. \u201cWe stand in support of Tricia Tuttle\u2019s wish to continue as Berlinale Festival Director, in full trust and with institutional independence,\u201d began the letter signed by 32 execs at the helm of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2310589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2310588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Berlinales-Tricia-Tuttle-Backed-By-32-Global-Film-Festival-Bosses.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310590,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310588\/revisions\/2310590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}