First the Toronto Film Festival loses its prime sponsor Bell, and now this. Hollywood stars including Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Rachel McAdams, Edward Norton, Joaquin Phoenix and 200-plus filmm…
In addition, the open letter made public Tuesday accuses RBC of snubbing leaders of impacted nations as well as BIPOC leaders.Deadline has reached out to TIFF for comment and we’ll update accordingly.
The festival is passionate about its support of Indigenous and Native Americans. Before every screening, Bailey, both at the podium and in a video that plays before every movie, provides respect to them, reflecting that the festival is taking place on their land.“Filmmakers have spoken: we want oil & gas out of our industry. Now TIFF must decide between one particularly problematic sponsor and its community,” said the Québec-based Kephart.
“TIFF celebrates socially conscious films and elevates Indigenous filmmakers. That is a good thing, but it is incoherent with teaming up with Canada’s worst offenders on social issues,” said Chief Na’Moks of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, whose lands are being destroyed by the RBC-supported CGL pipeline, and whose people have been subject to exceptional levels of police violence for resisting, attracting the ire of the UN. There are no movies on a dead planet.
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