Any indie film producer can find themselves in the eye of a culture-war storm — but Daniel Bekerman got blown off course by the most powerful man on Earth.

The founder of Scythia Films, a Canadian indie studio, recalls a valuable lesson learned when lawyers for Donald Trump began sending cease-and-desist letters in an effort to block the U.S. release of The Apprentice , the Oscar-nominated Trump origin story.

“The current president is primarily in the entertainment business more than the politics business. Those letters were for entertainment purposes. You could tell by their lack of seriousness,” Bekerman tells THR ahead of leading a conference panel on indie film at the Toronto Film Festival .

Any indie film producer can find themselves in the eye of a culture-war storm — bu

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