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thenews.pl:

The Warsaw International Film Festival has bowed under pressure from the Amway direct sale retailer and withdrawn a critical documentary on the controversial company.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”.

Washington Times:

Mr. Vine said he is excited that Amway gave his wife a chance to become an entrepreneur by selling its vitamins, cleaning products and cosmetics.

“For my wife, it has allowed her to start a business and thrive at this business, where it would have taken a great deal of capital … had my wife wanted to start a restaurant,” Mr. Vine said.

However, money isn’t all that a restaurant takes from its owners — it takes time, too. Just ask Hyeseon Kim of South Korea, whose husband owned and ran a Japanese restaurant.

“It made all of these different limitations in my life,” she said. “When my husband owned the Japanese restaurant, we didn’t have a life, he was always busy, we didn’t even time to have dinner.

Ms. Kim said her husband was able to sell the restaurant three years ago due to the extra income she was making from Amway, and, although he still works, she has noticed a huge difference in their life.

“It’s a lot less stressful now,” she said. “Without Amway, the restaurant was our life. We did not have any choices, we could not have a vacation. Now we can have a vacation, and have family get together, and my husband has become healthier.”