James Bulger controversy: Director of short film about child's killers will not withdraw from Oscars race
The director of a film about the boys who killed James Bulger is refusing to pull out of the Academy Awards, despite pleas from the child's mother.
Denise Fergus made a tearful plea on ITV earlier this week, where she said: "He [Vincent Lambe] should remove it from the Oscars. Remove it from the public domain – withdraw yourself."
But Lambe, whose film Detainmentis nominated for Best Live Action Short Film, told the BBC: "I won't withdraw it from the Oscars.
"It's like saying we should burn every copy of it," he added. "I think it would defeat the purpose of making the film."
Detainment recreates the moments before and after James's murder using transcripts of police interviews with killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
The two-year-old was killed by the pair, both aged 10, after they kidnapped him from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, in February 1993.
Lambe had previously apologised for not making Ms Fergus aware of the film sooner. He said he wanted to make the documentary to "try and make sense of what happened".
"The public opinion at the moment now is that those two boys were simply evil and anybody who says anything different, or gives and alternate reason as to why they did it or tries to understand why they did it, they get criticised."
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