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The Warsaw International Film Festival has bowed under pressure from the Amway direct sale retailer and withdrawn a critical documentary on the controversial company.
The film, directed by Polish film maker Henryk Dederko, “reveals a number of the Amway corporation’s secrets – including obvious violations of Polish law,” claims the Warsaw Film Festival web site.
“To prevent these seeing the light of day, Amway obtained a court ban [in 1998] on the film, preventing its release. Director Henryk Dederko and producer Jacek Gwizda?a were sued by Amway several times on various counts. This was the first case of preventive censorship in the history of Polish cinema after 1989,” the web site continues as part of the original blurb on the film, enticing cinema goers to see this as yet unseen documentary in Poland.
Showing the film as part of the festival would have been the first time that a Polish audience could decide for themselves about Amway’s alleged “cult-like practices” and “pyramid selling structures”.
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It’s amazing how poor journalism is these days. These reports out of Poland are wrong on many levels. Just for a start, the film wasn’t blocked by Amway either now or in 1989. It was private individuals in the film who sued to block it for libel. The court agreed with them and blocked it, it has nothing to do with Amway.
Amway’s press releases -
http://www.amway.pl/news?news_id=11227&back_uri=/
http://www.amway.pl/news?news_id=11226&back_uri=/
I was about to post an update with the new information based on the Press Releases ibofightback posted, then realized that they are not in english. How are we to know what they really say?