‘Cannes will never be the same after the Weinstein earthquake’
Theirry Fremaux, director of Cannes Film Festival, feels the festival will never be the same after the sexual scandal following the exposé of producer Harvey Weinstein, last year.
Fremaux also discussed his first Cannes without the disgraced industry mogul, calling it an “earthquake” moment for the industry.
“The world will never be the same again, the Cannes Film Festival will never be the same again,” he said, adding the movement for equality in the entertainment industry and at workplaces at large, had called for a need in an internal evaluation for the festival.
“We will discuss equality of salary… question our own process about the parity of the juries,” he added.
At a press conference following the announcement of the film festival’s official selection, Fremaux answered questions about the lack of women in the line-up, saying that the festival has to deal with titles that are being submitted.
“But there are three female movie makers in competition,” he said, pointing to Nadine Labaki, Alice Rohrwacher and Eva Husson, but adding that there “may be four” following expected late additions.
While the festival continues to see few women filmmakers in the main competition, two of this year’s juries are headed by women: Ursual Meier heads the Camera d’Or judges and Cate Blanchett, th competition jury.