French film producer Juliette Favreul Renaud, a former committee member of France’s Collectif 50/50 gender equality group, was acquitted by a Paris court on Tuesday of charges of sexually assaulting an actress.
Nadège Beausson-Diagne (Plus Belle La Vie) accused Favreul Renaud of trying to touch her intimately under her skirt while drunk during a dinner party organized on the fringes of a Collectif 50/50 board meeting in March 2022.
There were no witnesses to Beausson-Diagne’s accusation but other guests at the dinner reported seeing the actress in a state of shock.
Favreul-Renaud, whose credits include Virginie Despentes series Vernon Subutex, was tried in mid-March of this year on charges of “sexual assault while intoxicated.”
The accusations against her led to the near implosion of the Le Collectif 50/50 in April 2022, after the entire administrative board quit amid infighting over the best way to deal with the incident.
The organization, which has played...
Nadège Beausson-Diagne (Plus Belle La Vie) accused Favreul Renaud of trying to touch her intimately under her skirt while drunk during a dinner party organized on the fringes of a Collectif 50/50 board meeting in March 2022.
There were no witnesses to Beausson-Diagne’s accusation but other guests at the dinner reported seeing the actress in a state of shock.
Favreul-Renaud, whose credits include Virginie Despentes series Vernon Subutex, was tried in mid-March of this year on charges of “sexual assault while intoxicated.”
The accusations against her led to the near implosion of the Le Collectif 50/50 in April 2022, after the entire administrative board quit amid infighting over the best way to deal with the incident.
The organization, which has played...
- 5/24/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2021, the Cannes film festival programmed movies from an unprecedented number of women and people of color, more than in any other year. Director Julia Ducournau won the Palme d’Or for her film Titane, becoming only the second woman to do so. This win gave people hope that maybe change was coming from the white, male-dominated festival.
But with the initial reveal of the Cannes lineup last month, it appeared things had gone back to the way they usually were, with women and Poc content largely shut out. Subsequent additions to the slate included five films directed or co-directed by women in Competition for the first time. But is it enough? Change is happening slowly, but the years of exclusion have proven harmful to many filmmakers who exist on the margins, and few established voices seemed willing to speak up. That is until a new wave of women decided...
But with the initial reveal of the Cannes lineup last month, it appeared things had gone back to the way they usually were, with women and Poc content largely shut out. Subsequent additions to the slate included five films directed or co-directed by women in Competition for the first time. But is it enough? Change is happening slowly, but the years of exclusion have proven harmful to many filmmakers who exist on the margins, and few established voices seemed willing to speak up. That is until a new wave of women decided...
- 5/22/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The film is about the challenges facing black actresses in the global entertainment industry.
Paris-based film company Playtime has boarded sales on French actress Aïssa Maïga and filmmaker Isabelle Simeonie’s documentary Regard Noir, exploring the challenges facing black actresses to break into the entertainment industry worldwide.
The work takes Maïga, whose recent credits include Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Man Who Harnassed The Wind and French drama Brother, on a journey from her native France to Los Angeles and Brazil, during which she interviewed professionals from across the entertainment world on the subject. Her interviewees include Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay...
Paris-based film company Playtime has boarded sales on French actress Aïssa Maïga and filmmaker Isabelle Simeonie’s documentary Regard Noir, exploring the challenges facing black actresses to break into the entertainment industry worldwide.
The work takes Maïga, whose recent credits include Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Man Who Harnassed The Wind and French drama Brother, on a journey from her native France to Los Angeles and Brazil, during which she interviewed professionals from across the entertainment world on the subject. Her interviewees include Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay...
- 2/26/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Frustrated with the lack of diversity and inclusion in the French film industry, 16 black actresses took to the red carpet in Cannes on Wednesday night, staging a protest against racism just days after 82 women, led by Cannes jury president Cate Blanchett, launched their own call for gender equality.
Led by actress Aïssa Maïga (“Bamako”), the group struck a defiant note while promoting a new book, “Noire N’est Pas Mon Métier” (My Profession is Not Black), which Maïga co-authored.
Speaking with Variety, the actress called it “a historic moment” as 16 black women linked arms on the red carpet outside the Palais for the first time. “It was beyond my wildest dreams,” she said. “For 20 years, I’ve been acting, and I’ve never felt like this.
“This was a statement we wanted to make to the entire world.”
The book features candid stories about the prejudice faced by black actresses in the French film industry.
Led by actress Aïssa Maïga (“Bamako”), the group struck a defiant note while promoting a new book, “Noire N’est Pas Mon Métier” (My Profession is Not Black), which Maïga co-authored.
Speaking with Variety, the actress called it “a historic moment” as 16 black women linked arms on the red carpet outside the Palais for the first time. “It was beyond my wildest dreams,” she said. “For 20 years, I’ve been acting, and I’ve never felt like this.
“This was a statement we wanted to make to the entire world.”
The book features candid stories about the prejudice faced by black actresses in the French film industry.
- 5/17/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti Smith, Robert Maloubier, Alain Badiou, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Élisabeth Vitali
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Film Socialisme” is likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents. The veteran filmmaker has pieced together a prohibitively obscure free-association polemic on his pet theme of politics (the politics of nations, races, religion, relationships, communication, gender — essentially the entire fabric of postcolonial civilization) and how it’s processed through the meat grinder of postmodern pop culture.
The first half of “Film Socialisme” takes place on a Mediterranean cruise ship, the second in and around what is presumably a family-run gas station. The visual texture of the first half ranges from the clean, crisp high-def views of sea, sky, the ship’s decks and cabins to the degraded surveillance-camera images found,...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti Smith, Robert Maloubier, Alain Badiou, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Élisabeth Vitali
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Film Socialisme” is likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents. The veteran filmmaker has pieced together a prohibitively obscure free-association polemic on his pet theme of politics (the politics of nations, races, religion, relationships, communication, gender — essentially the entire fabric of postcolonial civilization) and how it’s processed through the meat grinder of postmodern pop culture.
The first half of “Film Socialisme” takes place on a Mediterranean cruise ship, the second in and around what is presumably a family-run gas station. The visual texture of the first half ranges from the clean, crisp high-def views of sea, sky, the ship’s decks and cabins to the degraded surveillance-camera images found,...
- 6/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Jay Antani
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti Smith, Robert Maloubier, Alain Badiou, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Élisabeth Vitali
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Film Socialisme” is likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents. The veteran filmmaker has pieced together a prohibitively obscure free-association polemic on his pet theme of politics (the politics of nations, races, religion, relationships, communication, gender — essentially the entire fabric of postcolonial civilization) and how it’s processed through the meat grinder of postmodern pop culture.
The first half of “Film Socialisme” takes place on a Mediterranean cruise ship, the second in and around what is presumably a family-run gas station. The visual texture of the first half ranges from the clean, crisp high-def views of sea, sky, the ship’s decks and cabins to the degraded surveillance-camera images found,...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti Smith, Robert Maloubier, Alain Badiou, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Élisabeth Vitali
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Film Socialisme” is likely to be an unbearable experience for anyone other than Godard himself and his most hardcore adherents. The veteran filmmaker has pieced together a prohibitively obscure free-association polemic on his pet theme of politics (the politics of nations, races, religion, relationships, communication, gender — essentially the entire fabric of postcolonial civilization) and how it’s processed through the meat grinder of postmodern pop culture.
The first half of “Film Socialisme” takes place on a Mediterranean cruise ship, the second in and around what is presumably a family-run gas station. The visual texture of the first half ranges from the clean, crisp high-def views of sea, sky, the ship’s decks and cabins to the degraded surveillance-camera images found,...
- 6/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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