Monty Python's Life of Brian that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, a grouping with an evangelical Christian base, of which they knew nothing. Some bans continued into the 21st century. In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year-old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth had finally been lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones
The Tree of Life (film) light" at the beginning and the end. In March 2009, "Empire" magazine's website quoted visual effects supervisor Mike Fink as saying that a version of the film will be released for IMAX cinemas along with two versions for traditional cinemas. The IMAX film has been revealed to be "Voyage of Time", a documentary expanding on the "history of the universe" scenes in "The Tree of Life", which the producers decided to focus on releasing at a later date so as not to cannibalize its release. It is set to be released by Broad Green Pictures. By May 2009, "The Tree