Nate Parker chose to evade questions regarding the 17-year-old rape allegation which has overshadowed his acclaimed directorial debut The Birth of a Nation while speaking to the press at the Toronto film festival on Sunday.
Union stressed that in making The Birth of Nation, the cast and crew were “creating a movement”.
The Birth of a Nation made history at the Sundance film festival in January where it sold to Fox Searchlight for a Sundance record high of $17.5m.