In an open letter, a group of 26 international filmmakers, producers and actors urged the Brazilian government…to defend the rights of filmmakers, journalists and Baha’i university professors imprisoned in Iran and called for their immediate release. Among the signatories are filmmakers Atom Egoyan, Beto Brant, Daniela Thomas, Frederic Boyer, Guido Chiesa, Hector Babenco, Jorge Furtado, Lais Bodanzky, Lucia Murat, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Walter Salles. The theatre director Antunes Filho and Renata de Almeida, director of the Sao Paulo International Film Festival, also signed the document.