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A documentary on the doxing of Jewish artists in Australia after the Hamas-led Oct. 7th attack has been rejected by the country’s leading film festivals and two public broadcasters, its director said on Sunday.
“Cancelled” will premiere at the Jewish International Film Festival in September after the Sydney and Melbourne film festivals both declined to screen it. The 88-minute documentary features prominent Australian Jewish artists, including Nina Sanadze, one of 600 Jewish creators publicly doxed after Oct. 7.
Director Danny Ben-Moshe said the rejection validated the film’s central message. “The fact that the film itself has ironically gotten canceled vindicates the whole film in the form of a Greek tragedy,” he told JNS. “At first I found it massively disappointing, but then I found it affirmative in that it proved the whole thesis of the film and left no room for doubt.”
Australia’s national public broadcaster, ABC, and the taxpayer-funded multicultural network SBS also declined to air the documentary. It will instead run on News24 Australia, formerly Sky News Australia, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
Jewish leaders have accused the Australian government of leaving post-Oct. 7 incitement unaddressed. They point to last year’s Bondi Beach massacre, the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia, as evidence of where that inaction led.
“This brings clarity to where we stand, and we don’t stand in a good place,” Ben-Moshe said.
He added that the snub was especially telling because it came just after a months-long state inquiry into antisemitism concluded.
“Antisemitism is not just about hating Jews but about the inability to empathize with Jews because we are an inconvenient truth that challenges the zeitgeist narrative that they subscribe to,” he said. “The only conclusion I can reach is that the future of Australian Jews looks bleak.”
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