TIFF reverses decision, will show Oct. 7 massacre film
TIFF officials were expected to issue a news release on Thursday afternoon after a wild 24 hours of uncertainty and international furor.
TIFF board member John Ruffolo told the Sun on Thursday afternoon that the issue 'is all resolved' and the film in question 'will be exhibited as planned and even bigger than originally.
This was no easy negotiation. There were people calling for resignations and the potential of public and private sponsorships being pulled after TIFF president Cameron Bailey made the call.
The film The Road Between Us tells the story about a Jewish grandfather trying to save his granddaughters during the attack that saw more than 1,200 slaughter and hundreds kidnapped.
The news of the pulling of acclaimed director Barry Avrich's film went international including being placed on the front page of the New York Post and talked about on Fox News.
Canada's Jewish advocacy organizations condemned the initial decision to cancel to showing.
But in a TIFF board meeting Thursday, things got heated.
In the end, said a source in the meeting, a 'good outcome' was brokered with input from Avrich and Bailey and others.
'Heather Reisman and Henry Wolfond from the Jewish community really helped work with TIFF chair Jeffrey Remedios and John Ruffolo and former mayor John Tory to get this done,' a source said.
Some tough negotiations are said to have been employed.
'Wouldn't have happened without all of them,' said the source.
As of this filing, a planned protest at the TIFF headquarters downtown had not been postponed.
There are still many hard feelings about this — including from federal and provincial elected members.
The bottom line is there should be no censorship of directors' works, or rewriting of history.
The point of the film festival is to create atmosphere of education and debate.
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