Toronto International Film Festival: Julian Assange

Julian Assange: Opening this years festival on Thursday was the premiere of Bill Condons dramatization of Assange and WikiLeaks, The Fifth Estate a film with which Assange refused to co-operate. Its the only movie at Toronto that has the distinction of being called a massive propaganda attack by its primary subject, according to 660 News. But the film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the Australian activist, is far from the character assassination Assange feared, but rather a layered, complicated portrait of him and his whistleblower website as laudatory as it is critical and TORONTO WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but hes very present at the Toronto International Film Festival. That was the opinion Assange dished out on the film in a video link in January in which he waved a supposed copy of the films script. He has also called it the anti-WikiLeaks movie. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.