Filmmaker Nate Parker apologizes for being ‘tone deaf’
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VENICE, Italy >> Three years ago, filmmaker Nate Parker came under scrutiny for a rape allegation from his college days that essentially derailed the release of his Nat Turner film The Birth of a Nation. Now, with a new film about police brutality debuting at the Venice Film International Film Festival, he is apologizing for how he responded then.