The Palm Springs International Film Festival has kicked off, but not without a touch of scandal. Mere days before the festival began, The Desert Sun reports, the former acting director, Helen Du Toit, filed a lawsuit claiming the festival offered her half the salary of her male predecessor and fired her when she objected.

Du Toit claims she was offered $90,000 to become executive director and her predecessor, Darryl Macdonald, had been paid about $180,000. Du Toit, the festival’s artistic director, took over as executive director hours before the start of the fest in 2016 because Macdonald fell ill. She then served three months in both positions before being asked to take over the more senior position full time.

But Du Toit claims that her salary offer was unacceptable, calling it, according to the lawsuit, “an insult.” Five days after rejecting the offer, she was fired.

“She was a loyal employee who worked for them for 12 years,” said Du Toit’s lawyer, Nick Rosenthal of the Diversity Law Group in Los Angeles. “But they weren’t willing to pay her what they paid her male predecessor. And when she wouldn’t accept half the money, they replaced her with another man.”

“The festival claims to value equality and diversity,” Du Toit wrote in an email to The Desert Sun, “yet here it was blatantly discriminating within its own ranks.”

But Dave Baron, vice chairman of Palm Springs International Film Society, which runs the film festival, said “Du Toit was offered a total compensation worth $135,000 and that the pay was lower than her predecessor for a variety of reasons, including a skill set that was ‘not as broad’ and that she had less experience.”

“The job that she was offered … was a very well-paid position that would have been commensurate with the experience she had and the duties and responsibilities of the job,” Baron added. “And it would have been the same if she was male, female, or transgender or whatever.” (Transgender or whatever? Oy.)

It’s not uncommon for women to be offered lower salaries than men for the same job, and that’s not necessarily a Hollywood issue. It happens within all industries. Women in Hollywood like Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, and Emmy Rossum have been pointing out their pay discrepancies in recent years to highlight the sexism that comes along with paying women less than men for the same work.

The Palm Springs International Film Festival is running through January 16. Women and Hollywood will stay on top of the outcome of this lawsuit.