Margaret Menegoz, Acting President of the Academy of Caesar. The producer, president of UniFrance from 2003 to 2009 and member of the National Film Commission, she was appointed on Wednesday by the National Cinema Center (CNC). "During this period and following the resignation of Alain Terzian from the presidency of the association for the promotion of cinema, this function is now performed, in application of the statutes, by Margaret Menegoz, member of the outgoing board" , said the CNC in a press release.
General meeting on April 20
"The members of the association will meet in an extraordinary general meeting on April 20, 2020, at the CNC, in order to adopt new statutes and provisionally replace the resigning members of the board of directors, pending the establishment of 'a definitive governance ", adds the CNC.
The general assembly will have to work out new statutes "within the framework of a broad consultation with the whole of the trades of the cinema, with in particular the widening of the number of members of association and the diversification of their recruitment.
"A second general meeting, this time including the new members who have joined the association under the renovated statutes, will be convened in the summer. It will proceed to the election of a board of directors whose composition must comply with the principles of representativeness, diversity and parity, guaranteed by the new statutes ", further specifies the National Cinema Center.
"Modernization plan"
"This modernization plan will allow the César ceremony and other operations organized by the Academy to continue to play their exceptional role in enhancing French cinematographic creation," said Dominique Boutonnat, president of the CNC.
Accused of opacity and self-esteem, the management of the Académie des César, which has been chaired since 2003 by producer Alain Terzian, resigned en bloc in mid-February, just two weeks before the award ceremony French cinema, to be held Friday evening.
The crisis, which had been brewing for weeks, had taken a new dimension with the publication of a forum of more than 400 personalities including Omar Sy, Jacques Audiard or Céline Sciamma, demanding a "reform in depth".
Alain Terzian had just announced measures to establish parity within the college of voters (35% women currently), the board of directors (28.5% women) and the APC (17% women), but they were deemed insufficient.