Film student's comedy burns tanning industry The Canadian Press
November 16, 2007 at 3:45 AM EST
BRANTFORD, ONT. —
Angry reaction from the tanning industry forced a film student from Brantford to cancel plans Thursday to shoot a comedy about a fictional illness dubbed tanorexia. Sarah Evans, a York University film major, had arranged to shoot portions of her short film “Stand 'N' Tan” at Michelle O'Brien's salon in Brantford.
However, film plans were scrapped after O'Brien received a flurry of angry and concerned telephone calls other tanning operators and even from the B.C.-based Joint Canadian Tanning Association. Callers expressed dismay that tanning may be cast in an unflattering light in Evans's film. Evans was taken aback by the backlash over her film about a woman's addiction to excessive tanning.
She says it was blown way out of proportion.
The film “is a fantasy,” Evans said “It would never happen.”
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