Vera Drew: 'At least they’re not saying “banned filmmaker” anymore'

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Vera Drew: 'At least they’re not saying “banned filmmaker” anymore'

It’s been a wild two and a half years since Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker made a major splash at Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered to an enthusiastic midnight audience only to have any and all of its follow-up screenings canceled. There was quite an ongoing scandal around The People’s Joker due to the film’s liberal use of Batman characters in telling the tale of a trans woman who herself becomes the Joker and brings the “…