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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sammy Gecsoyler

Nato meetings with TV and film-makers prompt claims it is seeking ‘propaganda’

A Nato flag
A Nato flag flutters at a military base in Estonia. Photograph: Ints Kalniņš/Reuters

Nato is holding closed-door meetings with film and TV screenwriters, directors and producers across Europe and the US, the Guardian can reveal, prompting accusations the alliance is seeking to use the arts to generate “propaganda” for the bloc.

The alliance has held three meetings with film and TV professionals in Los Angeles, Brussels and Paris and is due to continue its “series of intimate conversations” next month in London, meeting with screenwriter members of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), which represents professional writers in the UK.

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