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film deemed ineligible  October 14, 2011 | 12:25 pm  American
filmmaker Joshua Marston knew from the beginning that making his
second feature "The Forgiveness of Blood" in Albania would be a
challenge. The film, which received a Silver Bear for
screenwriting at the Berlin Film Festival, depicts a family feud
between two neighboring families in the southeastern European
country. In an effort to make the film as authentic to its
locale as possible,  Marston wrote the script with Albanian
Andamion Murataj and says he hired as many Albanian crew and
cast members as possible.    But in the end it wasn't enough for
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which deemed
the film ineligible for the foreign-language Oscar race because
it had extensive participation from non-Albanians. The academy
has forced the Albanian film committee to choose another film as
its official choice for the