The director of 'The Substance' announced she's withdrawing from Camerimage Film Festival over controversial comments from the event's CEO.
director Coralie Fargeat announced that she’s pulling the film from Camerimage Film Festival in Poland over controversial comments the festival’s CEO had made about female cinematographers last week.
“After discovering the highly misogynistic and offensive words of the director of the Camerimage Film Festival, I have decided to pullis about the impact of exactly these types of behaviors on our world. We shouldn’t tolerate them anymore. We send our support to all involved in the festival and hope this decision will help create a much needed change.
“This evolution is crucial as it rectifies the obvious injustice present in societal development,” he wrote in Cinematography World magazine, per.
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