Filmmaker Ava DuVernay, pictured here in Los Angeles in July 2025, is one among many Hollywood figures to pledge not to work with Israeli movie industry companies in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. (Chris Pizzello | Invision/AP)More than 2,000 Hollywood figures, including well-known actors and filmmakers, have pledged to boycott the growing Israeli movie industry in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Within Israel, people in the film industry worry that without other countries buying their film and TV productions, the industry will falter. The Filmmakers for Palestine boycott joins a long line of efforts to boycott businesses with ties to Israel. In a statement to NPR, the Friends of the Israeli Film and TV Producers Association , a nonprofit that supports the Israeli film and TV industry, called Filmmakers for Palestine’s boycott “profoundly misguided.”“Signatories of this petition are targeting the wrong people,” said the group’s statement.