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The mayor’s effort to terminate O Cinema’s lease drew a wave of backlash, including dozens of speakers who attended the meeting to support the theater.
Meiner is introducing city legislation that seeks to terminate the lease agreement with the cinema, which rents space from the city.
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has withdrawn his proposed plan to evict O Cinema from its publicly owned building over the theater's decision to screen the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land." ...
On Wednesday, Miami Beach Mayor Steve Meiner plans to present an item to the city commission that could result in the eviction of the small nonprofit movie theater O Cinema from a city-owned venue.
The Miami Beach commission has deferred deciding the fate of O Cinema on South Beach after it angered the city's mayor with screenings of the controversial, award-winning documentary No Other Land.
A series of showings of the documentary “No Other Land” at a single-screen art-house theater in Miami Beach has become a flash point of controversy. Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner sent a letter dated ...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – The future of O Cinema is uncertain after Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner pressured the theater to stop showing the Oscar-winning film No Other Land or risk eviction and ...
"Restricting access to films based on undue political influence undermines the very essence of free speech," The International Documentary Association and Art House Convergence say ...
More than 750 filmmakers, including Miamians BARRY JENKINS and BILLY CORBEN, have sent an open letter to city commissioners condemning the plans, calling them an “offense to the people of Miami Beach, ...
"Your decision to punish O Cinema for screening 'No Other Land' is an attack on freedom of expression," their open letter reads ...
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner on Wednesday withdrew a controversial proposal to evict O Cinema from a city-owned building for screening an Oscar-winning documentary about the West Bank.