Radio / Television News

Film about adolescent sexuality not exploitative, says CBSC

OTTAWA – A film about the story of a friendship between a 15-year-old boy and an older man who has a sexual interest in young men did not sexualize or exploit children, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled.L.I.E. is a dramatic motion picture produced in 2001 that was broadcast on OUTtv on May 27, 2010 at 9:00 pm. The main character is 15-year-old Howie Blitzer, whose mother died in an accident on the Long Island Expressway, and whose relationship with his father has since become strained.  As Howie tries to cope with his grief and his transition into...