From the newsletter of AgireOra Network:

We learn from various press releases, statements and reports circulating in recent days that the film Baaria of Tornatore, presented in the last festival in Venice, there 'a scene in which an animal (a cow) was killed and slaughtered specifically for "requirements of script.

In Italy the scene could not have been undertaken (and the film 'was in fact shot in Tunisia), and one wonders why' the director, wanting to be a "heinous act" has not had recourse to digital techniques. The Secretary for Health Martini said in La Stampa that the fact is very serious and that "An Italian film production must comply with the rules applicable in his state, as in Italy and abroad as a legal obligation moral obligation."

The problem, however, is not only of law or not, but is the fact that he purposely killed an animal in agony, only to get the film made.

It 'a few days ago, the sentence that has been condemned by two thugs in France for having set fire to a poor stray. Li 'were two boys, young, ignorant and stupid, but here there is' a mature man, said, an "intellectual." There are writers, actors, engineers, photographers, technicians, and dozens and dozens of employees, the managers of production that have planned, contracted and paid the bill for that poor animal and which 'was planted a punch in the head and cut his throat.

This film deserves only to be boycotted and this director has to go all our condemnation.

We can express what we think (without insults) by writing to the production company, Medusa: infofilm@medusa.it

A petition to boycott the nomination Tornatore's film "Baar", where 'a cow was slaughtered specifically for "the requirements of the script"

http://www.enpa.it/it/iniziative/baaria/