CBC plans to air a slightly reworked documentary on the Falun Gong on Nov. 20, ending a rift that forced the film's prime-time English debut to be abruptly cancelled this past week.
“I don't think we will be shooting new footage, but there will be some new material and new narration,” Peter Rowe, director of Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of Falun Gong, said in an interview.
Previously, the director had insisted he would not re-edit his film after CBC Newsworld yanked it at the last minute. But yesterday he said the requested fixes were relatively minor.
“As it turned out,” he said, “the film is not going to be diminished nor are voices in the film going to be muted.”
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