Amazon Prime Video has banned the drama The Prince from airing on its platform due to \u2018offensive content\u2019.<\/p>\n
The movie, which was released last year, is a dark story about affections and loyalties between prisoners, the search for sexual identity, love, violence, and the rise to power behind bars during the political upheaval of Chile in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
Although it contains explicit content, it was honoured with the Queer Lion Award at Venice Film Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A number of titles are self-uploaded to Amazon by distributors, with the platform taking a share of money earned.<\/p>\n However, all releases are subject to Amazon\u2019s content policy guidelines, which contain rules against \u2018sexually explicit content\u2019 and \u2018violent or graphic content.\u2019<\/p>\n The Prince\u2019s distributor Peccadillo Pictures was informed the film clashed with the streamer\u2019s guidelines and it is struggling to overturn the ruling.<\/p>\n \u2018We are obviously very concerned and perplexed by Amazon\u2019s ruling,\u2019 Peccadillo MD Tom Abell told Deadline.<\/p>\n \u2018We have been trying to overturn their decision without avail and cannot understand why, when we have overwhelming support from all other platforms, they have taken this stance.\u2019<\/p>\n He added: \u2018We cannot deny that The Prince has some explosive and bold scenes but this is what makes it stand out and is such an enjoyable and admired film.<\/p>\n \u2018It certainly contains nothing that hasn\u2019t been seen before in a prison drama and pales in comparison to scenes in many of Amazon\u2019s own productions. We are something of a loss to explain the situation.\u2019<\/p>\n Metro.co.uk has contacted Amazon Prime Video for comment.<\/p>\n