Cannes: An anti-sexual harassment hotline will be set up for the Cannes film festival next month after disgraced Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein was accused of attacking four actresses at the event. The French equality minister Marlene Schiappa said movers and shakers would be warned about their behaviour when they arrive at the world's biggest film festival on the French Riviera. "We have set up a partnership with the Cannes film festival to tackle sexual harassment," Schiappa said late Thursday, with a telephone hotline for victims or witnesses to report aggressors.
"One of the rapes that Harvey Weinstein is accused of happened at Cannes, and so the festival cannot not act," the minister told AFP.
Schiappa said the measures were being put in place not just to protect actresses but all women working in or around the film industry.
In a year when the #MeToo movement has dominated the headlines, only three female directors made the shortlist of 18 competing in the main competition.
The Icelandic star Bjork said in October that he had harassed her on the set of Dancer in the Dark, the musical for which she won best actress at Cannes in 2000.
She and her Swedish opposite number intent to launch a international fund to help women directors during the festival, which runs from May 8 to 19.
"One of the rapes that Harvey Weinstein is accused of happened at Cannes, and so the festival cannot not act," the minister told AFP.
Schiappa said the measures were being put in place not just to protect actresses but all women working in or around the film industry.
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In a year when the #MeToo movement has dominated the headlines, only three female directors made the shortlist of 18 competing in the main competition.
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The Icelandic star Bjork said in October that he had harassed her on the set of Dancer in the Dark, the musical for which she won best actress at Cannes in 2000.
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She and her Swedish opposite number intent to launch a international fund to help women directors during the festival, which runs from May 8 to 19.
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