Filmmakers killed, silenced, persecuted and/or imprisoned.

Filmmakers who have been killed, silenced, persecuted and/or incarcerated; directly or indirectly because their work.

Christian Poveda – born January 12, 1955, in Algiers, Algeria, died September 2, 2009, in Tonacatepeque, El Salvador.
“If you look long enough down the throat of the lion, he will eat you.”
La Vida Loca (French subs) (English subs) – 2008

Jafar Panahi – Imprisonment and International Response

Marta Rodríguez & Iván Sanjinés

Pier Paolo Pasolini – March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975

Sergei Parajanov – Imprisonment and later...