{"id":291265,"date":"2016-09-11T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291265"},"modified":"2021-01-09T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:29:10","slug":"birth-of-a-nation-gets-standing-ovation-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/birth-of-a-nation-gets-standing-ovation-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a Nation gets standing ovation in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The real story of a real hero against the white enslavement of black people.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Actor and director Nate Parker received an enthusiastic welcome as his film The Birth of a Nation screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

After a public showing on Friday of the film – based on a slave uprising led by preacher Nat Turner in 1831 – Parker described it as “a labour of love”.<\/p>\n

There were gasps in the audience at some of the harrowing scenes.<\/p>\n

After the screening, Parker, who has faced media scrutiny over a historic rape trial, got a standing ovation.<\/p>\n

Parker acted in, wrote and directed the film. It gained a huge amount of awards buzz when it first screened at the Sundance film festival in January.<\/p>\n

However, recent media attention has been focused on Parker’s acquittal for rape in 1999 and his accuser’s subsequent suicide.<\/p>\n

‘No brainer’
\nParker said: “I didn’t have the benefit of learning about Nat Turner when I was at school, yet I grew up 42 miles (68km) east of where the rebellion happened.<\/p>\n

“So you can imagine learning about this person, in the absence of heroes, meant a lot to me.”<\/p>\n

He said it was a “no brainer” that he would choose to tell the story on film.<\/p>\n

“We should all look at this film in the sense that this was a person that stood against a system that was oppressing people,” he told the audience.<\/p>\n

“If we can relate to that in 2016, we must ask our selves what we would be willing to sacrifice for what we want our children, and our children’s children, to enjoy.”<\/p>\n

Cameron Bailey, the Toronto festival’s artistic director, described the film as a “painful story from American history and a story that needed to be told”.<\/p>\n

The Toronto International Film Festival runs until 18 September.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-37327122<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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