During a hearing on Thursday, February 29, before the Senate, actress Judith Godrèche requested the opening of a commission of inquiry into sexist and sexual violence in the cinema industry.
Having become a leading figure in the fight against sexual violence against children since she filed a complaint, after decades of silence, against the directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, Judith Godrèche was interviewed by the women's rights delegation at the Luxembourg Palace.
Beyond the 7th art, she paid tribute to judge Édouard Durand, the former leader of Ciivise, this independent commission on incest and sexual violence against children, in the midst of a crisis, and pleaded to protect the children victims of sexual violence.
“This incestuous cinema family is only the reflection of all these families” affected by this violence, declared the actress before the senatorial delegation, specifying that she had received 4,500 testimonies from victims on an email address that she opened to this effect.
On cinema in particular, she "requested the establishment of a commission of inquiry into sexual and gender-based violence in the cinema sector" and also "the withdrawal" of her functions as president of the National Cinematography Center (CNC) by Dominique Boutonnat.
The latter was implicated in a case, not yet judged, of alleged sexual assault on his 21-year-old godson, accusations which he contests.
He was reappointed despite this affair, to the great dismay of feminist associations.
Judith Godrèche also asked to "impose a neutral referent on filming with a minor, a referent who is not paid by the production, who is trained", and "that a child is never left alone on a set ", with "a more effective control system".
She would also like “an intimacy coach for scenes that involve” scenes of a sexual nature.
With AFP
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