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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL CHIEFS SIGN GENDER EQUALITY CHARTER FOLLOWING DEMONSTRATION BY CATE BLANCHETT & WOMEN IN FILM

This morning, Cannes Film Festival chiefs Thierry Frémaux (Festival Director), Edouard Waintrop (Directors’ Fortnight head) and Charles Tesson (Critics’ Week head) signed a charter for gender parity and inclusion proposed by 5050×2020, France’s version of the #MeToo initiative. Under this new charter, Cannes will compile the gender statistics of all films submitted, make public the…

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