Sentence examples for permissions to screen from inspiring English sources
It was Prince Waleed who got the necessary local permissions to screen Rotana's film, Manahi, in Saudi Arabia late last year.
The United States Supreme Court has granted schools permission to screen for drug use among students who participate in extracurricular activities.
Foreign films given permission to screen are rarely those with adult-orientated themes and tend to be blockbuster fantasy productions with little or no controversial content.
Australia's classification board has refused producers permission to screen it at the forthcoming Melbourne and Brisbane queer film festivals, deeming it overly sexually explicit.
Iranian cinema managers had to wait for four years and the election of the liberalising President Muhammad Khatami before getting permission to screen it.
And studios would be unlikely to kick up much of a fuss, since the state controls the annual quota of 34 foreign films given permission to screen in China.
Ginger Thompson (NYT) AFRICA ZAMBIA: PLEA ON GENOCIDE -- War crimes prosecutors are asking Zambia for permission to screen lists of soldiers who have fled into the country recently to determine whether any are wanted in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
"We had been given permission to screen the film and because so many people hadn't seen it and wanted to, we got into places we might not otherwise have had access to.
Initial reports attributed this to his failure to obtain permission to screen the film abroad, but Mr. Lou, speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, said the Film Bureau's official reason was the movie's poor sound and picture quality.
Last week the designer baby debate was back in the papers when one couple spoke out about their application for permission to screen their embryos for the faulty BRCA1 gene.
This may have been the first time in post-Soviet history that a movie that had already been granted permission to screen was pulled from theatres by order of the government.
