And in the end, the Italian audience will also be able to see the film “Ithaka” about Julian Assange’s liberation struggle. Although there were probably some who argued that this would not happen, so much so that in a letter to Fatto, Italian actress Laura Morante – who worked with the “My voice for Assange” committee – denounced the resistance that in the world of cinema against this award-winning film, welcomed at the great documentary film festival in New York, the DOCNYC, but not at those of Rome and Turin. “Ithaka”, the reconstruction of the case from the strictly private perspective of his wife Stella and father John Shipton and their global campaign, will be screened in Rome on December 13 at Nuovo Cinema Aquila as part of TEHR Festival. And after Laura Morante’s denunciation, other prestigious offers have also arrived. The documentary is the work of director Ben Lawrence and will be produced by Julian Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton, who told The Fact columns yesterday he did it “to get Julian known by the people very close to him, because they have him taken away, they took him away from everyone, dehumanized, demonized. The film was an opportunity to take that back from us.” The documentary shows moving everyday scenes, for example when Stella and her two children call the WikiLeaks founder’s husband in prison, who never met the two children in freedom. Isabel Russinova, director of TEHR, the Fatto Quotidiano said she was delighted to be able to contribute to the fight for Assange’s release.”It’s a small festival, totally independent and free, where I always like to reach out to the voices of those who have been silenced, being insulted or silenced. My artistic sensibility is, in my opinion, only satisfied by an awareness of what really surrounds me and a sense of doing something useful for the community.” And Tina Marinari of Amnesty International, who Assange al Fatto emphasizes: “What is at stake is not only the life and freedom of a journalist, but life and freedom the world of journalism as a whole. The struggle civil society is waging today is the last remaining weapon of defense against the silence or inaction of Western democracies. And we’re certainly not ready to give up.”
