Channel 4 Drama Features Mock Presidential Assassination

LONDON, September 1: A controversial new documentary-style
film that sees President Bush being assassinated is set to premiere at the
Toronto International Film Festival next week before airing on Channel 4 in the
U.K. next month.

The British broadcaster will air the film initially on More4,
reports indicate, before repeating it on its flagship network. Set in October
2007, the film uses archive footage and CGI to portray a presidential
assassination in Chicago amidst an anti-war protest, with actors playing eyewitnesses
to the event.

More4's chief, Peter Dale, is quoted as saying in the
Guardian: "It's a mixture of a gripping detective story and a political
examination of what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic.”

Gabriel Range, director of the film, said, "Inevitably
there will be people offended by the premise. But anyone who does see the film
will recognize that it's not a personal attack on Bush but an oblique way of
exploring the direction his foreign policies have taken us."