{"id":2313343,"date":"2026-03-05T04:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313343"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:25:46","slug":"canadian-actress-elle-maija-tailfeathers-returns-toronto-film-critics-award-in-response-to-censorship-of-pro-palestine-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/canadian-actress-elle-maija-tailfeathers-returns-toronto-film-critics-award-in-response-to-censorship-of-pro-palestine-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Actress Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers\u00a0Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Canadian actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2979684\/\">Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers<\/a> says she is \u201cdisgusted and ashamed\u201d by the Toronto Film Critics Association\u2019s (Tfca) decision to cut a portion of her awards speech, in which she expressed support for Palestine, from Monday\u2019s awards gala.<\/p>\n<p>Tailfeathers was being honored at the Tfca Awards Gala in Toronto with the prize for Best Supporting Performance in a Canadian Film, for her role in Melanie Oates\u2019 drama <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33077505\/\">Sweet Angel Baby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to attend the March 2 ceremony in person, she sent a video message which \u2013 in addition to the standard acceptance speech fare \u2013 included the statement \u201cmy heart continues to be with the people of Palestine who are experiencing this ongoing genocide, and thank you to anyone in this industry who\u2019s been brave enough to say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That section was cut from the awards gala video.<\/p>\n<p>In a furious email sent to Tfca members on Wednesday, Tailfeathers slammed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian actor Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers says she is \u201cdisgusted and ashamed\u201d by the Toronto Film Critics Association\u2019s (Tfca) decision to cut a portion of her awards speech, in which she expressed support for Palestine, from Monday\u2019s awards gala. Tailfeathers was being honored at the Tfca Awards Gala in Toronto with the prize for Best Supporting Performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2313344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2313343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Canadian-Actress-Elle-Maija-Tailfeathers-Returns-Toronto-Film-Critics-Award-in-Response.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313345,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313343\/revisions\/2313345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}