Tag: Johann Grech
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David Walliams says sleeping with Johann Grech will enable you to make a film in Malta
The actor David Walliams, who is being paid at least €300,000 every time he comes to Malta to recite a couple of lines at publicly-funded events by the Film Commission, said during the Film Festival that he slept with Film Commissioner Johann Grech because it is the best way to get everything you need to…
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The public broadcaster flew to London to cover the launch of the Gladiator II movie
If the story about the government’s funding for the production of Gladiator II wasn’t excruciating enough, it seems the Public Broadcasting Services sent their journalists to the film’s premiere in London. They also interviewed Johann Grech, the Film Commissioner, who was in attendance. This is one of the rare instances where the Public Broadcasting Services…
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A weak Opposition prompted by news headlines instead of leading with policy
Unlike the Shadow Minister of Culture, Julie Zahra, I am not bothered by the comments of a film director about my country, and the outrage, although politically legitimate, (this director was given a tax rebate of €47 million), is very disingenuous, or at best naïve. Calls for Johann Grech to resign should have been made…
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Partying until the very last moment: Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo at the Mediterranean Conference Centre
Earlier this week, two men currently both investigated for giving a fake government job, launched a book about the Knight’s Infirmary in Valletta (today, the Mediterranean Conference Centre). MCC CEO Pierre Fenech is currently under police investigation for giving a fake job to Rosianne Cutajar and Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo is currently under investigation for…
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Only broke and washed-up actors would do propaganda for a criminal government
We have a new rising trend in Malta of foreign artists and actors getting paid by the Maltese government to conduct propaganda clips for the government and its apparatchiks and to serve as personal entertainers for our ministers and government executives. Two particular actors, David Walliams and Russell Crowe have been paraded by the Labour…
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The appalling behaviour of Johann Grech
I followed Johann Grech’s recent story like most of you did, but I didn’t have much to say about him given that nothing has changed since then other than the preposterous and pretentious imbecile keeps proving my point. The Malta Film Commission is not actually doing anything other than mostly spending millions of Euros to…
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A propagandist until the very end
Ex-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had to resign from office in disgrace over allegations that his office was involved in the murder and cover-up of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Joseph Muscat also received a noteworthy price for Corrupt Individual of the Year by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The majority of people were decent enough…
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He started out as a Joseph Muscat propagandist
Following my article on Johann Grech, I was also told by various sources that Johann Grech started out in the Labour Party as a Joseph Muscat propagandist, helping him personally in his PR, media appearances and even writing his speeches. His mentor and main connection was Jimmy Magro who has also been accused of soliciting…
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Malta Film Commissioner Johann Grech publishes a populist and political attack against his critics
Supposedly, the Film Commissioner is a public executive who can’t make political remarks but following revelations and criticism, the government is funding up to €47 million in subsidies to the production company producing the Gladiator movie in Malta. The message is not informative in any way, but simply a scathing and populist attack against his…
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It’s not an economic sector: it’s the personal entertainment of a criminal organisation
People are quickly realising that Malta’s film industry is not a film industry at all, but a heavily-subsidised government scheme intended as the personal entertainment of the criminals that run the country. They can’t make it even more obvious that they’re desperately trying to meet Hollywood film stars for their own personal amusement. They are…
