TRINIDAD - Government through the National Aids Co-ordinating Committee (NACC), has refused to sponsor the premiere of Oscar contender Brokeback Mountain at the MovieTowne cineplex tonight.Despite this, the show will go on, the event organisers said.
Red Initiatives founder and co-ordinator Leo Lokai told the Daily Express that the decision to withhold sponsorship was relayed to them last Thursday by the NACC.
He said he was promised an official letter stating the reasons and was still awaiting it.
He said he expects the letter to be "filled with a lot of junk" though, since NACC had said that the premiere was a good idea but maintained that approval was needed from the Office of the Prime Minister with respect to the dispensing of funds.
Lokai said the premise for the non-approval was that the film had nothing to do with HIV/AIDS.
Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, tells the story of two young men-a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy-who meet in the summer of 1963 and forged a lifelong connection.
The film won four Golden Globe Awards.
Lokai said he went to NACC in early January and since it was only last week that word was received on the withholding of sponsorship, he was unable to approach other sponsors.
from Trinidad Express
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