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    Nate Parker Fires Back at Critics After ‘American Skin’ Panned in Venice Reviews

    Parker's polarizing new movie won the best film prize in Venice's Sconfini section.

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    Armie Hammer calls Nate Parker-Casey Affleck outcry 'a double standard'

    Armie Hammer has slammed how Nate Parker was banished over a rape allegation last year, which obliterated his movie 'The Birth Of A Nation', while Casey Affleck won an Oscar.

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    Nate Parker to Attend BFI London Film Festival with ‘The Birth of a Nation’

    Nate Parker, the director, writer and star of “The Birth of a Nation,” will be among the guests at the 60th BFI London Film Festival, threatening to inject a note of controversy into the October event. The announcement Thursday of Parker’s participation comes amid a heated debate in the U.S. concerning an allegation of rape... <a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/global/nate-parker-bfi-london-film-festival-the-birth-of-a-nation-1201849933/" title="Read Nate Parker to Attend BFI London Film Fes

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    Despite Rape Controversy, Nate Parker's 'Birth of a Nation' Publicity Tour Moving Forward

    Nate Parker is plunging ahead with plans to be the public face of The Birth of a Nation despite the furor surrounding rape accusations that were made against the actor, writer, and director when he was a student at Penn State University. Parker and Fox Searchlight, the boutique label behind the film, have no plans to hide the filmmaker from the press. Although there has been speculation that the controversy surrounding news of the 2001 rape trial would imperil The Birth of a Nation’s Oscar cha

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    Birth Of A Nation Director Nate Parker's Rape Accuser Took Her Own Life In 2012

    The woman who accused director Nate Parker of raping her while they were both students at Penn State University took her own life in 2012, her brother revealed. It emerged last week that Parker and his college roommate Jean Celestin were charged with the rape of the fellow Penn State student, who was intoxicated, in 1999. Parker and Celestin, who claimed the encounter was consensual, were also accused of stalking and harassing the victim after she reported the assault to the police.

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    Rape Trial History Casts Doubt On Oscar Hopeful Birth Of A Nation

    Nate Parker, who wrote, directed and stars in slave revolt drama ‘The Birth Of A Nation’, spoke about the trial during an interview with Variety last week. Parker was accused along with his roommate Jean Celestin, who also co-wrote the movie, of having sex with an unconscious 18-year-old student after a night of drinking while studying at Penn State in 1999.

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    The Birth Of A Nation - New Trailer and UK Release Date

    Nate Parker's Sundance-wowing historical drama will hit UK cinemas on 20 January, 2017.