"A controversial British film titled Death of a President, which takes place in the not-too-distant future and revolves around the assassination of President Bush in 2007 is due to have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10, the film's producers, Britain's Channel 4, announced Thursday. The film, which resembles an actual documentary, had previously been listed by the festival as '"D.O.A.P.". Gretchen Essell, spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Texas, told the British wire service Press Association, "I cannot support a video that would dramatize the assassination of our president, real or imagined. ... I find this shocking, I find it disturbing. I don't know if there are many people in America who would want to watch something like that." But Peter Dale, head of Channel 4's digital channel More4, which plans to air the film on Oct. 9, said: "It's a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic. ... It's not sensationalist or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good.' "