Parker was scheduled to face the press at the Toronto festival, where the film will still have several screenings, but a spokesperson for the event told Deadline that “it’s definitely not going to happen”.
Controversy continues to surround Nate Parker’s slavery epic The Birth of a Nation after the American Film Institute (AFI) cancelled a screening and a Q&A, and a press conference to promote the film at the Toronto international film festival was also axed.
AFI dean Jan Schuette said he had received many “passionate points of view” about the institution’s screening, which was planned for Friday.
Parker was accused of raping a female student with his Penn State roommate Jean McGianni Celestin in 1999.