According to centercinemapress citing Deadline, more than 200 filmmakers, including Adam McKay and prominent figures such as Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Julianne Moore and Rachel McAdams, signed a letter against the sponsor of the Toronto Film Festival

In an open letter to Toronto festival director Cameron Bailey, the festival’s main sponsor, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), is dissociated for the global expansion of fossil fuel extraction and the indiscriminate activation of projects on indigenous lands without landowner consen

The Toronto Film Festival, which has recently lost its long-time sponsor, Canada’s Bell Company, has been accused of insulting the leaders of the affected countries by RBC in this open letter

Judy Long, Vice President of Public Relations and Communications of the Toronto Film Festival, appreciated the attention of the filmmaking community to this issue and emphasized that the festival is committed to environmental sustainability and understands the importance of addressing climate change quickly and jointly, and is engaged in active discussions. with RBC

RBC also released a statement and announced that it welcomes the opportunity to talk with the cinema community

The bank said it believes climate change should be dealt with more quickly and is working to engage with indigenous communities and achieve collective reconciliation. The company added that it is proud to be a partner of the Toronto festival

On the other hand, the letter emphasized that the oil and gas industry has no place in the film industry, and the Toronto festival must decide between choosing an inappropriate special sponsor and its own community

The letter emphasized that the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is one of the most polluting companies because of its huge financial support for projects that produce greenhouse gases and works in line with the global enabler of fossil fuel extraction and is even the biggest factor in 2022, ignoring the rights of Canadian aboriginals. has taken