News24’s entertainment arm Channel24 reports that an Australian film festival director on Friday defended his decision to screen a banned “gay zombie porn” movie after his home was raided by police.
Head of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Richard Wolstencroft, said Thursday’s search was fruitless because his copy of LA Zombie had been destroyed.
“Police searched for a copy of the film, but we destroyed ours after the Melbourne Underground Film Festival screening in September,” Wolstencroft told AFP.
“We thought that police might come for the screening. But they didn’t. We don’t understand why they came after all this time.”
Canadian director Bruce LaBruce’s LA Zombie was pulled from the Melbourne International Film Festival in July after objections from censors.