“The Substance” director Coralie Fargeat is the latest filmmaker to bow out of the upcoming Camerimage Film Festival over festival director Marek Żydowicz’s comments calling into question the quality of work from female cinematographers.
“After discovering the highly misogynistic and offensive words of the director of the Camerimage Film Festival, I have decided to pull ‘The Substance’ from the festival (and [director of photography] Benjamin Kračun has decided not to attend),” Fargeat said in a statement posted on X.
She continued, “‘The Substance’ is about the impact of exactly these types of behaviors on our world. We shouldn’t tolerate them anymore.