The facts tied to the allegations in Nate Parker’s past are deplorable, and the director and star of The Birth of a Nation has come out publicly to admit this himself.
The Birth of a Nation will be in Toronto, and Nate Parker — at the moment — still plans on embarking on a publicity tour at the festival.
As The Birth of a Nation writer/director and star Nate Parker prepares to bring his Sundance Film Festival sensation to a larger audience via film festival screenings and platform releases, the story of rape allegations in his past surface.
Fox Searchlight, the studio that paid for the rights to The Birth of a Nation following its Sundance screenings, is in a difficult situation, from a business standpoint.