" I count on you ".
The actress and director Judith Godrèche was heard this Thursday at the National Assembly by the children's rights delegation, on the subject of sexual violence against minors in the world of cinema.
As a preamble to the questions from parliamentarians, she read a text pointing the finger at "the incestuous society of cinema", which is, ultimately, "only a reflection of our society", and again asked for the creation of a commission of inquiry into labor law in the world of cinema, “in particular on the risks for women and children.
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“I am counting on you to protect children, to no longer deliver them to the cinema without any protection,” she said, then adding that other professional circles were affected, “those of education, medicine, publishing, sport for example”.
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Judith Godrèche has become the leading figure in the fight against sexual violence against children since she filed a complaint against the filmmakers Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon for facts dating back to her adolescence.
She was already heard at the end of February by the Senate women's rights delegation.
“Growing up, I thought I was bad, dirty, guilty,” she said, “I know now that I didn’t do anything.
But society is guilty because it adores them, because it supports them, because it protects them.
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Provide more supervision for filming with minors
She asked for rules to be established to protect children on film sets, in particular a charter of good conduct for castings, with the obligation to have a third person in the room, not just the child and the director. casting.
With the 50/50 collective, an association to promote equality for women and men in cinema, she is also calling for the establishment of a sworn certificate from directors for respecting the working conditions of minors.
Judith Godrèche denounces the lack of psychological monitoring of children during filming, but also the lack of training for those supervising these minors, such as casting directors or agents.
“Who should we count on to ensure from now on that no child will be the victim of sexual or moral violence on a set or during a casting?
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During her hearing, she also praised the work of judge Édouard Durand, formerly head of Ciivise (Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children) and called for “setting an example”.
“It is important that at the head of the CNC we have someone who sets an example, precisely because this industry is sick,” she declared, while the president of this institution, Dominique Boutonnat, will be tried in June for sexual assault on his godson.