The head of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, April 9, said that would analyze the findings of a parliamentary investigation into abuse in the entertainment sector, insisting that women were being “Heartard.”
“I would like to take this opportunity to say that the Festival has a note of tasks of the recommendations of the Commission for Violence in the Cultural Sector with seriousness and determination,” Iris Knobloch told reporters in Paris. “I am very presented that the change continues to take place through strength and courage. Finally women are heard,” he added at a press conference announcing the films that will be screened at the festival, which begins on May 13.
“The festival is particularly attentive to this, and they [women] They no longer request their place, they are taking it. We are honored to amplify their voices, to shed a light on an incredible talent that expands our worldview. “
A French parliamentary investigation into the entertainment industry published its findings on Wednesday, and the parliamentarians conclude that the abuse of the artists was “endemic.” The president of the research Sandrine Rousseau asked Cannes to give an example to eliminate sexual abuse, as well as physical and psychological violence.
“The Cannes Film Festival must be the place where this change in the mentality occurs; the place where we say aloud and clear (…) in the middle of the brightness and the red carpets (…) that finally, we all want things to change: each of us, at the level of the industry.
The opening day of Cannes will coincide with the verdict in the first trial of sexual aggression of the legend of the French film Gérard Depardieu, which seized the country last month.
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