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04/02/2004: "Sanity restored, sort of"
According to CBC News, Ottawa filmmakers have decided that funding a move about pedophilia might have been a wee bit chancy:
A taxpayer-funded grant for a film depicting a sexual relationship between an adolescent boy and an older man has been pulled.
The movie, Last Night With Jesse, was to have received a $1,000 grant from the Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa.
The film had been approved for funding by the selection jury of the IFCO, which gets public money from the Canada Council, the Ontario Council for the Arts and the City of Ottawa.
But the group's board quashed the grant on Tuesday, saying the film's director, Ken Takahashi, couldn't confirm whether he planned to use a minor as an actor.
A loss for Art, no doubt, but a gain for some unknown young man.
