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A New York venue has cancelled an encore screening for Jordan Peterson’s new movie, stating that the film made some of their staff uncomfortable.

In an email circulated to customers who had bought tickets to the show, The Rise of Jordan Peterson, at the Shapeshifters Lab in Brooklyn, filmmakers explained that it was cancelled at the last minute, “due to some staff feeling uncomfortable during the first screening.”

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“If we had more notice, we would have made alternative arrangements, but we were informed of the cancellation last night at 11 pm,” they wrote in the email.

Customers will be refunded, the filmmakers added.

This is the second time a public venue has cancelled a screening of the movie. In September, the Carleton Cinema in Toronto cancelled what was supposed to be a weeklong run of the documentary due to complaints brought forward by theatre employees.

Peterson, a University of Toronto psychology professor, is an occasional contributor to the National Post. He entered the public spotlight due to videos in which he aired divisive views on political correctness and gender identity. The film is a longer follow-up of Patricia Marcoccia’s documentary, Shut Him Down, and tracks Peterson’s rise to fame in the past three years.