Gender Equality Groups Take Stock In Cannes On Five-Year #MeToo Milestone: “The Powers & Forces Against Us Are Still Very Significant”
deadline.comThe battle for gender equality in the cinema industry is gaining ground but victory is a long way off, representatives of Time’s Up!
UK, L.A.-based org ReFrame, France’s Collectif 50/50 and Brazil’s Mulheres group told a panel in Cannes on Friday. “One of the reasons I was so excited to be here today is that we need to constantly talk across borders, we’re a global industry and we need to share these insights because the powers and the forces against us are very, very significant,” said Heather Rabbatts, chair of the UK’s Times Up Association.
The panel, organized by the French gender equality group Collectif 50/50, took stock of what progress has been made in achieving gender parity in the film industry at the five-year milestone of #MeToo.
It also coincided with the fifth anniversary of the 2018 red carpet protest in which 82 women climbed the steps of Cannes’s Palais des Festivals to demand gender equality in the film industry.
