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Kill Cat Documentary - SICK !!
I remember reading about this in 2001 in the Ottawa Citizen. It was
horrifying then as it was to know the festival or the city for htat matter would let such a thing be shown and call it "Freedom of expression". I have a feral colony of 32 cats i am caring for and have been doing rescues for over a decade now and the Canadian gov. needs to change the laws concerning animal cruelty but this is whayt happens when the senate are all friends of the Prime Minister. A bunch of old farts who get paid over 100 grand a year for sitting on their asses thinking of the most ignorant of laws yet holoding back on the more important ones as to not rock the boat. I live in Winnipeg Manitoba and I feel that his country should be ashamed of itself for such pathetic laws. Currently doing research on ways to change to laws and so on. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:55:05 -0400, "Churchill" wrote: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/London...02/612577.html Film fest draws threats over cat-killing documentary TORONTO -- Toronto International Film Festival organizers have called police after one of its programmers said he received a death threat from an anonymous caller protesting the upcoming screening of Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat. Sean Farnel, who programs the festival's Real to Reel program, said Tuesday he received a call at his home from a woman who, among other things, threatened to "skin him alive" and "shove knives in his eyes." The festival has received a steady stream of angry e-mails, faxes and phone calls since the Toronto-based Freedom for Animals posted on its website a letter asking the festival to pull Montreal director Zev Asher's 91-minute documentary. The film investigates the infamous Toronto animal-cruelty case in which art student Jesse Power and two friends torture and kill a cat, post-humously named Kensington by animal-rights supporters. Power claimed his intention was to make a video that protested the unthinking consumption of factory-slaughtered animals by killing, cooking and eating a loved domestic pet. The trio eventually pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and mischief charges for the May 2001 incident. Festival co-director Noah Cowan defended the work, saying, "The film is a journalistic essay. . . classic investigative filmmaking in the tradition of Errol Morris that identifies the crime and all the issues that surround it and tries to come to a larger social understanding of what the debate represents." Cowan said he takes exception to the fact many of the people writing or calling to express anger over the film have not seen it. He acknowledged there is disturbing imagery in the documentary, but said there are no clips from the notorious cat video. Festival co-director Piers Handling said security will be beefed up when the film is screened Sept. 14 and 17. |
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I remember reading about this in 2001 in the Ottawa Citizen. It was
horrifying then as it was to know the festival or the city for htat matter would let such a thing be shown and call it "Freedom of expression". I have a feral colony of 32 cats i am caring for and have been doing rescues for over a decade now and the Canadian gov. needs to change the laws concerning animal cruelty but this is whayt happens when the senate are all friends of the Prime Minister. A bunch of old farts who get paid over 100 grand a year for sitting on their asses thinking of the most ignorant of laws yet holoding back on the more important ones as to not rock the boat. I live in Winnipeg Manitoba and I feel that his country should be ashamed of itself for such pathetic laws. Currently doing research on ways to change to laws and so on. On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:55:05 -0400, "Churchill" wrote: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/London...02/612577.html Film fest draws threats over cat-killing documentary TORONTO -- Toronto International Film Festival organizers have called police after one of its programmers said he received a death threat from an anonymous caller protesting the upcoming screening of Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat. Sean Farnel, who programs the festival's Real to Reel program, said Tuesday he received a call at his home from a woman who, among other things, threatened to "skin him alive" and "shove knives in his eyes." The festival has received a steady stream of angry e-mails, faxes and phone calls since the Toronto-based Freedom for Animals posted on its website a letter asking the festival to pull Montreal director Zev Asher's 91-minute documentary. The film investigates the infamous Toronto animal-cruelty case in which art student Jesse Power and two friends torture and kill a cat, post-humously named Kensington by animal-rights supporters. Power claimed his intention was to make a video that protested the unthinking consumption of factory-slaughtered animals by killing, cooking and eating a loved domestic pet. The trio eventually pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and mischief charges for the May 2001 incident. Festival co-director Noah Cowan defended the work, saying, "The film is a journalistic essay. . . classic investigative filmmaking in the tradition of Errol Morris that identifies the crime and all the issues that surround it and tries to come to a larger social understanding of what the debate represents." Cowan said he takes exception to the fact many of the people writing or calling to express anger over the film have not seen it. He acknowledged there is disturbing imagery in the documentary, but said there are no clips from the notorious cat video. Festival co-director Piers Handling said security will be beefed up when the film is screened Sept. 14 and 17. |
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