#sexual harassment
Diane Davis’ Weinstein-Inspired Play “Complicity” to Make World Premiere This Fall, Illana Stein Directs
“Complicity,” Diane Davis’ play about the system that enables and protects sexual abuse in Hollywood — specifically the women who play a part in upholding that system —...
Sundance 2022 Women Directors: Meet Nina Menkes – “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power”
Nina Menkes is a filmmaker whose works synthesize inner dream worlds with brutal, outer realities. Her work has been shown widely in major international film festivals, including Sundance, the...
BBC Revamps On-Set Bullying and Sexual Harassment Guidelines
The BBC has updated its on-set bullying and sexual harassment policy, presenting new guidelines on sex scenes, access to support resources, and safeguarding contacts. According to Deadline, BBC CCO...
SAG-AFTRA Introduces Intimacy Coordinator Training Accreditation & Harassment Reporting Tool
SAG-AFTRA has announced two new measures to help combat sexual harassment and misconduct. A press release reports the union has introduced the first industrywide accreditation for intimacy...
Anita Hill’s Hollywood Commission Releases Sexual Misconduct Survey Results, Announces Incident Reporting Tool
The Hollywood Commission, an organization dedicated to ending sexual harassment in show business, has released the results of The Hollywood Survey, an anonymous questionnaire analyzing discrimination...
Time’s Up Releases Safety Guide for the Entertainment Industry
Time’s Up Entertainment just released a valuable resource ahead of Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards. The Time’s Up Guide to Working in Entertainment “provides accessible and...
Gretchen Carlson Teams Up with Fellow Fox News Plaintiffs to End Mandatory NDAs
Gretchen Carlson is working to ban mandatory Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), confidentiality contracts that protect high-profile predators and the companies who hired them, while preventing victims...
Oprah, Amy Ziering, & Kirby Dick’s Doc About Sexual Misconduct in Music Industry Goes to Apple
Oprah Winfrey is joining forces with the filmmaking team behind “The Hunting Ground” and “The Invisible War.” The mogul is collaborating with Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick on an...
Anita Hill’s Commission on Sexual Harassment Launches Industry Worker Survey
Attention anyone who has worked or sought work in the entertainment industry: The Hollywood Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment needs your input. According to Deadline, the Anita Hill-led...
French Culture Ministry and Film Board Unveil New Guidelines to Combat Sexual Misconduct
France’s film industry is stepping up its anti-sexual harassment efforts. In the wake of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” star Adèle Haenel’s revelation that she was harassed for...
Quote of the Day: Rowena Chiu Breaks Down the Power Imbalances That Protected Harvey Weinstein
Yesterday, in an op-ed for The New York Times, Rowena Chiu recounted the night in 1998 when Harvey Weinstein nearly raped her. A former assistant to the disgraced mogul, Chiu described the toxic...
Theater Survey: Discrimination & Lack of Maternity Leave Feed Offstage Gender Gap
Excluding costume design, dudes dominate theater’s design, production, and technical professions. Women represent just 37 percent of Broadway and touring stage managers, a 2017 study revealed....
Women in Film Sexual Harassment Hotline Expands to NY
In 2017, nonprofit organization Women in Film (WIF) launched its Sexual Harassment Help Line, providing services and support to Los Angeles-based members of the entertainment industry experiencing...
Emma Watson and Time’s Up UK Announce Workplace Harassment Hotline
Emma Watson has teamed up with Time’s Up UK to create a free legal advice hotline for women in England and Wales experiencing workplace sexual harassment. According to Mashable, this is the...
Ursula Macfarlane’s Harvey Weinstein Doc “Untouchable” Acquired by Hulu
Ursula Macfarlane’s take on Harvey Weinstein, his power in Hollywood, and how he used said power to prey on and abuse women is heading to Hulu. The Hollywood Reporter confirms the streamer has...
Trailer Watch: “Working Woman” Tackles Sexual Harassment
A tale of sexual harassment in the workplace, “Working Woman” has been referred to as “timely” in much of the press surrounding the film. Has there ever been a time period...
Doc About Hollywood Gender Discrimination “This Changes Everything” Secures Release
“This Changes Everything,” a documentary investigating Hollywood’s decades of discrimination against women on and off-screen, has nabbed distribution. According to a press...
Women in Animation President Marge Dean Pens Open Letter About Skydance and John Lasseter
This letter has been reprinted with permission from Women in Animation (WIA). Dear friends and colleagues, Last week’s announcement regarding the hiring of John Lasseter by Skydance has sent...
Time’s Up Rings in New Year by Launching Campaign to Double Number of Women in Leadership
Time’s Up is officially one year old. Since it kicked off on New Year’s Day 2018, the movement to make workplaces safer and more equitable for women and other underrepresented communities...
Anita Hill-Led Harassment Commission Sets Sights on Protecting Hollywood Freelancers
The Hollywood Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality has made protecting freelancers a priority. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Anita Hill-led Commission is...
Trailer Watch: Alexis Bloom Details Roger Ailes’ History of Harassment in “Divide & Conquer”
“Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” traces the rise and fall of the eponymous media mogul. Alexis Bloom’s upcoming documentary details how Ailes worked as Richard...
WGA West Addressing Sexual Harassment with New Workshops
This summer the WGA West found 64 percent of its female writers have experienced sexual harassment at work. Now there’s word that the guild is stepping up its efforts to curb workplace...
Time’s Up UK Donates £1 Million to Support Sexual Harassment and Abuse Survivors
The Justice and Equality Fund, the UK counterpart to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, has drawn £1 million (about $1.3 million USD) in order to make its first major donations. Only eight...
A Year of Reckoning in Hollywood
I’m not going to say his name because he doesn’t deserve shit. He was one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood, and now he’s one of the most reviled men in the business...
New California Law Requires Talent Agencies to Address Sexual Harassment
Yet another major step has been taken to help ensure that #TimesUp on Hollywood’s sexist culture: a new law requiring talent agencies to “provide educational materials on sexual...
Join Today’s National Walkout in Support of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez
In solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, a national walkout has been organized. At 1pm EST...
Les Moonves Out as Chairman and CEO of CBS, Still Not Taking Accountability
It’s official: Les Moonves is no longer the chairman and CEO of CBS. “As part of the settlement, he and CBS are donating $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo...
Trailer Watch: Harassment Makes a Woman’s New Job a Nightmare in TIFF Film “Working Woman”
“The administrative manager is my right hand,” Orna’s (Liron Ben-Shlush) new boss tells her in the trailer for Israeli drama “Working Woman.” She assists him at his...
IMDbPro’s New App Includes Tap-to-Call WIF Sexual Harassment Hotline Feature
IMDbPro, the movie and TV database’s subscription platform, will make it easier for its members to report sexual harassment or seek other kinds of help. Variety reports the new IMDbPro app...
WGA West Survey: 64% of Female Writers Have Encountered Workplace Sexual Harassment
A month after WGA East released the findings of a sexual harassment survey given to its members, its sister union, WGA West, has published the results of its own survey. Unfortunately, the West...
Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd, and More Discuss the Aftermath of #MeToo
A lot has changed since the #MeToo movement took force last fall. Many sexual harassment and abuse survivors are feeling more confident in speaking out. And many predators are facing consequences....
Abigail Disney’s Level Forward Financing Hollywood Misconduct Database
This winter Abigail Disney and Killer Content launched Level Forward, a startup studio boosting projects from women and people of color. Five months after that announcement comes word that Disney...
WGA East Survey: There Are “Significant Barriers” to Reporting Sexual Harassment
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGA East) has announced the findings from a sexual harassment survey given to its members in January and February — and the results are not encouraging. Per...
Anita Hill-Led Harassment Commission Appoints Trista Schroeder as Interim Exec Director
The Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace has named an interim executive director. Deadline reports entertainment lawyer Trista Schroeder has taken on...
Cannes Awards 2018: Another Dude Wins the Palme D’Or and Asia Argento Brings the House Down
Cannes’ 2018 Closing Ceremony was the perfect microcosm of the festival itself: it embraced some much-needed social change and somehow was still the usual old boys’ club. The fest’s...
The World of #MeToo: Crowdfunding Picks
Originally used by social activist and community organizer Tarana Burke, the term “me too” has become prolific in recent months, following the many exposés of sexual abuse allegations made...