Austrian Entry 'Joy' Disqualified From International Feature Competition

[hewontgo]

Entries must feature "a predominantly non-English dialogue track," per Academy rules, but a review found that two-third of Austria's entry is in English... https://t.co/3XMfW6WUJf via @thr
- Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) November 11, 2019
Entries must feature "a predominantly non-English dialogue track," per Academy rules

Comments

[frankthesheep]

I just submitted this with better commentary as to why this harms former British colonies.

Francophone countries like Benin can submit an entirely French language film and no one would be like "try again in your native language". But countries like Nigeria can't get away with that. This film had pidgin-english in it - I wonder how that was counted.

Also, see how Britain is submitting a film in a Malawian language as their entry.

[glutenfreefool]

Oh, I'd be interested in that commentary

[frankthesheep]

Oh, I'd be interested in that commentary.

lol - I pretty much summarised it in my previous comment.

English drives the infrastructure.
exactly! I know Nigerian people in Nigerian that didn't even speak a native language growing up... my brother being one of them....

[glutenfreefool]

Lmao, oh well ty then! Basically the conclusion my mom and I came to ourselves

[squirrels_oh_no]

In 2016 Australia submitted a movie in a dialect spoken in Vanuatu starring ni-Vanuatu, but it was made by white men so idk.

Cambodia once submitted a movie in French. War Witch was submitted by Canada but was mostly in Lingala.

[frankthesheep]

idt australia and canada are the former british colonies op is concerned about (tho correct me if i'm wrong, op). they aren't really underrepresented in cinema/hollywood.

lol - that is correct.