Amid the Trump administration’s blitz on executive branch operations, a Hollywood outpost of the U.S. State Department has gone offline. The website of American Film Showcase, a global cultural diplomacy partnership between the agency and the University of Southern California’s vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, is now unavailable — and its Instagram and Facebook accounts have been deactivated.
What’s going on?
On Monday afternoon, an agency spokesperson assured The Hollywood Reporter that AFS “continues to be a Department of State program and activities are ongoing.” A USC School of Cinematic Arts spokesperson added that all programs funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs “are being reviewed to ensure compliance with [President Donald Trump’s] Executive Orders, including our public online presence.”
Earlier Monday, Trump purged Democrat-appointed board members from the federally-funded Kennedy Center…
