The Substance honestor Coralie Fargeat has pulled her film, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, from the 2024 Camerimage Film Festival in response to what she called “highly gfinisher biased and impolite” comments from festival CEO Marek Zydowicz.
Fargeat proclaimd the decision in a statement on X, in which she stated that The Substance cinematographer Benjamin Kracun has also choosed not to combine this year’s Camerimage event booting off Saturday in Poland.
“The Substance is about the impact of exactly those types of behaviors on our world. We shouldn’t finishure them anymore. We sfinish our help to all joind in the festival and hope this decision will produce a much necessitateed change,” Fargeat and Kracun inserted in their combinet statement.
Festival set uper and CEO Marek Zydowicz promoteed dispute with his relabels in an editorial last week about the festival’s conciseage of female cinematographers in pickions for past editions. In his column, Zydowicz seemed to dispute that fantasticer female reconshort-termation could result in a lineup of unwiseinished inventive quality.
“The film industry is undergoing rapid changes, impacting the cinematic image, its satisfied, and aesthetics,” Żydowicz wrote in Cinematography World magazine. “One of the most startant changes is the increaseing recognition of female cinematographers and honestors. This evolution is startant as it rectifies the clear infairice conshort-term in societal enbigment. However, it also lifts a ask: Can the pursuit of change delete what is outstanding? Can we give up labors and artists with remarkworthy inventive accomplishments solely to produce room for mediocre film production?”
A number of directing cinematography guilds rapidly condemned the relabels and Steve McQueen, who was scheduled to combine the uncovering night screening of his tardyst feature Blitz, call offed his materializeance at the festival.
The Camerimage main competition jury — headed by Cate Blanchett and including Anna Higgs, Sandy Powell, Anthony Dod Mantle, Rodrigo Prieto, Lukasz Zal and Jolanta Dylewska — replyed to the relabels from Zydowicz helping the festival.
“We greet talk about seeing gfinisher reconshort-termation,” the group wrote. “While we will be cgo ined on the task we have the fantastic privilege to have been askd to get on — to watch and honor the labor of cinematographers — we see forward to being part of uncomferventingful talkions with our peers at the festival about fantasticer inclusion and recognition of excellence in all its establishs in our industry. We wholeheartedly help the essential shift towards genuine inclusivity, and festivals can be a fantastic forum for engaging in such conversations and championing preferable change.”
More to come.
