Aside from the jaw dropping mishandling of... seemingly every instance of sexual harassment and misconduct brought to the top of Cinestate leadership, it’s dumb founding to watch people self immolate in quotes they think are an effective self defense thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wi…
I am part of a working group that Sonnier assembled to create a code of conduct to address on-set abuse, because I want to stop this shit and rip away any cover of “but no one told me” in the future. I am getting paid for it becuase my time is not free.
Anyone who knows my style on here knows I consider Cinestate a liability to people. If I can do good for people by making helping draft safety measures that will PROTECT against abuse, I feel like I can do that better from the inside. And this Beast article gives a ROADMAP
Of how not to handle and subsequently discuss instances of misconduct. I look forward to telling the Cinestate people I’m working with about absolutely everything they did wrong here, and how unless they want to fold the company they need to fix their shit RIGHT NOW and be a
a god damn MODEL CITIZEN of accountability. To avoid being just a brief, bad memory in the film industry, they need to understand the rot is at the core and the way they see the world - on this issue at the VERG LEAST - is wrong inside out and top to bottom.
What a disgrace that women being abused becomes their “teachable moment.” Yet another teachable moment for a movie studio where people are just “doing their best.”
I want to put the work and time into making a document that forces accountability, consequences for mistreatment, and ideally helps guide a culture change around it. But if it becomes real and just gets lips service and loopholed...
I guess we will know for sure all the change rhetoric and “desire for better” was just bullshit all along. I look forward to them having absolutely NO EXCUSES any longer.
