【环球时报驻香港特约记者 叶蓝】距台湾电影“金马奖”颁奖典礼还有约两个月，香港影业协会近日向会员发信称，“金马奖”近年日趋政治化，要有意参与的香港影业协会会员“务须三思”。实际上，由于近几届“金马奖”愈发将电影评价与政治扯上关系，参加的香港电影人也越来越少。
GREENWOOD, Ark. -- Ricky Dority spends most of his days playing with his grandchildren, feeding chickens and working in the yard where he lives with his son's family.It's a jarring change from where he was just several months ago, locked in a cell serving a life prison sentence at Oklahoma's Joseph Harp Correctional Center in a killing he said he didn't commit. After more than two decades behind bars, Dority had no chance at being released — until he used his pandemic relief funds to hire a dogged private investigator. The investigator and students at the Oklahoma Innocence Project at Oklahoma City University, which is dedicated to exonerating wrongful convictions in the state, found inconsistencies in the state's account of a 1997 cold-case killing, and Dority's conviction was vacated in June by a Sequoyah County judge.Now, the 65-year-old says he’s enjoying the 5-acre property in a quiet neighborhood of well-to-do homes in the rolling, forested hills of the Arkansas River Valley outside of Fort Smith. “If you’re gone for a lot of years, you don’t take it for granted anymore.”Dority is one of nearly 3,400 people who have been exonerated across the country since 1989, mostly over murder convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. In Oklahoma, there have been more than 43 exonerations in that time, not including three new exonerations this year. The cases underscore a serious problem facing a judicial system in which many old convictions resulted from overworked defense attorneys, shoddy forensic work, overzealous prosecutors and outdated investigative techniques.The problem is particularly acute given Oklahoma's history of sending people to death row, where 11 inmates have been exonerated since 1981. The issue has pushed a Republican-led legislative panel to consider whether a death penalty moratorium should be imposed.In Oklahoma County, Glynn Ray Simmons was freed after spending nearly 50 years in prison, including time on death row, in a 1974 killing after a judge determined prosecutors failed to turn over evidence in the case, including a police report that showed an eyewitness might have identified other suspects.And just this week, Perry Lott, who served more than 30 years in prison, had his rape and burglary conviction vacated in Pontotoc County after new DNA testing excluded him as the perpetrator. Pontotoc County, in particular, has come under intense scrutiny for a series of wrongful convictions in the 1980s that have been the subject of numerous books, including John Grisham’s “The Innocent Man,” which he produced into a six-part documentary on Netflix. The most common causes of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentification, misapplication of forensic science, false confessions, coerced pleas and official misconduct, generally by police or prosecutors, according to the Innocence Project, a national organization based in New York.In Dority's case, he said he was railroaded by an overzealous sheriff and a state prosecutor eager to solve the killing of 28-year-old Mitchell Nixon, who was found beaten to death in 1997.Investigators who reopened the case in 2014 coerced a confession from another man, Rex Robbins, according to Andrea Miller, the legal director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project. Robbins, who would plead guilty to manslaughter in Nixon's killing, implicated Dority, who at the time was in a federal prison on a firearms conviction. Dority said he knew he didn't have anything to do with the crime and found paperwork that proved he had been arrested on the day of the killing.“I thought I was clear because I knew I didn’t have anything do with that murder,” Dority said. “But they tried me for it and found me guilty of it.”Jurors heard about Robbins' confession and testimony from a police informant who said Dority had changed bloody clothes at his house the night of the killing. They convicted him of first-degree murder and recommended a sentence of life without parole.After years in prison, while most inmates spent their federal COVID-19 relief check in the commissary, Dority used his to hire a private investigator, he said. Bobby Staton had mostly investigated insurance fraud, but he took on the case and realized quickly that it was riddled with holes, Staton said. He eventually turned to the university's Oklahoma Innocence Project, which assigned a law student, Abby Brawner, to help investigate.Their investigation turned when Staton and Brawner visited Robbins in the maximum-security Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, and he recanted his statement implicating Dority. “It was pretty intimidating,” Brawner said. “Especially when you're going in to meet someone who doesn't know you're coming and doesn't want to talk to you.”Brawner and Staton also learned the informant didn't live at the home where he told investigators Staton showed up in bloody clothes. When the actual homeowner testified at a hearing this summer, the judge dismissed the case.Dority's original attorneys were ineffective for not discovering the informant didn't live at the home, the judge said, giving prosecutors 90 days to decide whether they will retry him. That three months has been extended, and prosecutors have said they intend to ask the judge for more time for DNA testing. Dority, confident in his innocence, said he's not concerned about additional forensic testing.Sequoyah County District Attorney Jack Thorp and former Sheriff Ron Lockhart did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press. But Assistant District Attorney James Dunn, who is overseeing the case and was not in the office when it was originally prosecuted, said he agreed with the judge's dismissal after hearing the homeowner's testimony and learning a witness “was not credible.” “The last thing I want to see is an innocent person in prison for a crime they didn't commit," Dunn said. "Because that means the person who actually did commit the crime, or those persons, are still out there.” Meanwhile, Dority is learning to use a smartphone and the television remote control, he said. He's thankful to Staton and the Innocence Project and says his case proves others are wrongfully imprisoned in Oklahoma.“After they’ve done what they’ve done to me, I know there are people in that prison who are innocent that need to be out and need help getting out,” he said. “If they hadn’t gotten me out, I’d have been in there for the rest of my life.”。
“玷污电影的独立艺术性” 今年第59届“金马奖”预计11月19日在台北“国父纪念馆”登场。据台湾《联合报》14日报道，香港影业协会在13日给全体成员发送的信中称，近年“金马奖”颁奖典礼中，多名台湾导演或艺人一再提出与电影艺术不相关的言论，将政治与电影混为一谈，玷污电影的独立艺术性，将整个活动拖进充斥争议的胡同中，“如果会员希望参与（金马奖），务须三思，以免殃及池鱼，卷入无谓的纠纷中，得不偿失”。香港影业协会成立于1986年，是香港电影界保障和促进电影从业人员权益及福利的团体，同时也是中国国家版权局委任为指定香港电影作品的版权认证及发证机构。协会宗旨之一是“与世界各地的影业协会联络，以促进、推广及保障电影业的发展”，因此过去香港电影界参加台湾“金马奖”，会由影业协会组成香港影业代表团参与。目前，香港影业协会会员约有170个，现任理事长为狄龙国际电影有限公司的洪祖星，永远名誉会长为向华强等10人。
二 | 国台办发言人朱凤莲14日表示，我们支持的是能够促进两岸同胞相互理解和相互认同的交流，“赋予政治色彩的活动”就另当别论了。政治化自砸招牌 台湾“金马奖”自1962年创办，起初只是台当局为促进台片制作与肯定优秀电影人所举办的奖励竞赛。“金马”二字取自金门、马祖的头一个字组合而成，符合全球主要影展一般以“金字招牌”为号召的潮流。最早报名该奖项的主要是台湾和香港电影，2008年后大陆和新加坡、马来西亚的影片也开始积极参加，使“金马奖”一度成为华人电影圈的一项重要评奖，与大陆“金鸡奖”和香港“金像奖”并称为“华语电影三大奖”，拉近了华语电影爱好者的距离。不过近年来，在民进党当局破坏两岸关系的背景下，“金马奖”也日趋政治化，不仅自砸招牌，更是引发大陆以及其他地区华语电影人的警惕。在2018年第55届“金马奖”颁奖典礼上，台湾导演傅榆因一部反映“太阳花学运”的纪录片获奖，她声称“希望我们的国家可以被当成一个真正独立的个体来看待，是我身为一个台湾人最大的愿望”。同一天，前一届的“金马奖”影帝、大陆演员涂们上台为“最佳女主角”颁奖时，表示“特别荣幸再次来到中国台湾金马奖颁奖”及“我感到了两岸一家亲”，当时被媒体视为反击傅榆的“台独”论调。典礼原先安排导演李安与演员巩俐一同颁发“最佳剧情片”，但巩俐也拒绝上台。2019年8月7日，国家电影局宣布暂停电影和人员参加当年“金马奖”，《一秒钟》《地久天长》《南方车站的聚会》以及《兰心大剧院》都未报名当届“金马奖”。不幸成为蔡当局的独角戏 在“金马奖”越来越政治化的趋势下，虽然仍有少数港片参与，但数量大大减少。同样是在2019年，原本已完成报名手续的香港电影《扫毒2天地对决》《使徒行者2：谍影行动》《追龙II：贼王》及动画《继园台七号》确定放弃第56届“金马奖”。香港英皇电影当年表示，已将重心放在同期举行的厦门第28届金鸡百花电影节，旗下的艺人都不出席“金马奖”颁奖典礼。香港影业协会曾于2019年8月15日发信称：“近来国家电影局发布头条文章，暂停大陆影片和人员参加2019年第56届台北金马影展；自此陆续有香港电影公司表态退出本届金马奖，本会特此通知影业同行。”早在当年6月27日，台北金马影展执行委员会公布第56届“金马奖”由香港导演杜琪峰担任评审团主席，同年9月19日杜琪峰向主办单位请辞。2021年，一部所谓反映香港“修例风波”的纪录片获得当年第58届“金马奖”的“最佳纪录片”奖，反映出这一电影奖项的立场。
三 | 有岛内舆论称，去年“金马奖”，李安卸下执委会主席重任，虽然当年台湾片和台湾从业人员成了“最大赢家”（获奖作品中仅两部为香港电影，一部为澳大利亚电影，其余均为台湾电影），然而残酷的事实是台湾电影从来没有像现在那么衰弱。
四 | 2019年之后，大陆和香港几乎无人参加，“金马奖”不幸成为蔡英文当局的独角戏。不少赞助商也退出——2019年10月，意大利汽车品牌玛莎拉蒂在官方微博发表声明称，台湾代理商不代表该品牌的官方立场，已要求经销商终止与台北金马影展执行委员会合作，并主张“尊重中国的领土完整”。英国服装品牌欧圣也在官方微博宣布中止与台北金马影展执行委员会的合作，随即关闭联名T恤的销售网页，并表示支持一个中国原则。
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