However, rather than take issue with the actual movie, the demonstrators parked themselves outside of Roy Thomson Hall, the screening site, to protest the Dakota Access pipeline, part of which is parked near a Native America reservation in North Dakota.
According to Variety, approximately 100 demonstrators showed up at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday to protest outside the Deepwater Horizon world premiere.
That’s why those people in the video were chanting “Standing Rock”: that’s one of the tribes fighting to see that the pipeline doesn’t get built.
Many are concerned that the project would harm the environment and ancestral near the reservation.