The wrath of Michael Jackson’s fans won’t keep the 2019 Sundance Film Festival from screening a documentary that features two men who accuse the late pop star of sexually assaulting them when they were children.
Festival organizers sent a statement to Sundance’s corporate partners this week, according to the trade publication IndieWire, assuring them that the four-hour documentary “Leaving Neverland” would go on as planned.
“Sundance Institute supports artists in enabling them to fully tell bold, independent stories, stories on topics which can be provocative and challenging,” the statement said. “We look forward to audiences at the Festival seeing these films and judging the work for themselves, and discussing it afterwards.