China slaps 5-year ban on film maker Lou Ye

Posted on September 4, 2006 10:27 PM | | Comments (0)

By REUTERS | via (uncensored) YAHOO
04 September 2006

China has banned director Lou Ye from making movies for the next five years after he submitted "Summer Palace" to the Cannes Film Festival without official approval, state media reported on Monday.

Lou thumbed his nose at the film bureau by submitting his movie, a romance set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests that also features explicit sex scenes, without first clearing the screening with China's censors.

"A senior official with SARFT (the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television) confirmed the punishment to Xinhua on Monday but refused to discuss the case further," the official state news agency reported.

Calls from Reuters to the film bureau at SARFT went unanswered and an official at the administration's general office declined to comment.

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