The alliance is holding “intimate conversations” with film and TV professionals, critics say they’re trying to inject military messaging into art…
Closed-door sessions in LA and Paris were held under Chatham House rules, the goal is to “better tell the story” of defense spending…
UK writers are reportedly “pretty offended” by the invites, calling the move an outrageous attempt to weaponize the screen…
NATO officials claim they’re just answering “interest expressed by the industry,” but the timing during the Iran war is toxic…
NATO is trying to go from the battlefield to the box office, the scripts are being watched.
Art is supposed to be the mirror, not the mouthpiece for the military-industrial complex.
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Nato meetings with TV and film-makers prompt claims it is seeking ‘propaganda’
“Nato is holding closed-door meetings with film and TV screenwriters, directors and producers across Europe and the US, the Guardian can reveal, prompting accusations the alliance is seeking to use the arts to generate “propaganda” for the bloc.
The alliance has held three meetings with film and TV professionals in Los Angeles, Brussels and Paris and is due to continue its “series of intimate conversations” next month in London, meeting with screenwriter members of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), which represents professional writers in the UK.
The planned meeting in London has caused consternation among some of those invited, who felt they were being asked to “contribute towards propaganda for Nato”.
The topic of conversation at the meeting, to be held under the Chatham House rule – in which participants are free to use information received, but identities of attenders are not revealed – will be the “evolving security situation in Europe and beyond”. Former Nato spokesperson James Appathurai, who is now deputy assistant secretary general for hybrid, cyber and new technology, is understood to be planning to attend, along with other officials from the alliance.”