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(3 Jan 2023)

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Paris, 28 February 2020
1. Wide shot protesters with placards
2. Women shouting UPSOUND (French) 'Polanski rapist, cinema partner in crime'
3. Protesters walking to Champs Elysees
4. Protesters shouting, UPSOUND (French) "We are angry, we are proud, we are radical feminists in anger"
5. Protesters walking to Champs Elysees and Arc de Triomphe (in background)
6. Pan from police to tear gas

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Paris, 27 February 2020
7. Wide of Pleyel Concert Hall, venue of César Academy Awards ceremony
8. Street graffiti reading (French) "Violanski" (referring to sexual abuse allegations against filmmaker Roman Polanski; "viol" in French means "rape" or "assault")
9. Mid of lights
10. Pedestrians passing César poster

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Cannes, France, 17 May 2014
11. Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski at premiere of 'Saint Laurent'

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Cannes, France, 25 May 2013
12. Tilt up of French actor and filmmaker Mathieu Amalric, Polanski and Polanski's wife Emmanuelle Seigner arriving for 'Venus in Fur' premiere
13. Pan from press to Amalric, Seigner and Polanski on red carpet

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Paris, 2 March 2018
14. Wide shot César award red carpet
15. Medium shot Penelope Cruz
16. Wide shot attendees
17. 1SOUNDBITE (English) Juliet Binoche, actress - on calling for quotas to guarantee that more film subsidies go to movies directed by women:
"This foundation that's a symbol of the white ribbon is taking care of four associations to give some victims, rape victims or others, to have a lawyer and to able to fight for their rights."
18. Mid of various people on red carpet holding cutout of French film director, Agnes Varda
STORYLINE:
Movie stars and other film industry workers convicted of or facing possible prison time for sexual or sexist violence are being banned from France’s top movie award ceremony “out of respect for the victims.”

The handing out of the César awards - the French equivalent of the Oscars and scheduled this year for Feb. 24 in Paris - is a glittering annual highlight of the movie industry calendar in France.

But the Césars have also faced scrutiny - like other sections of the global movie industry - in the wake of the #MeToo social movement against sexual violence.

Women’s rights activists protested outside the 2020 ceremony where director Roman Polanski won an award. Actress Adele Haenel, who alleged sexual assault by another French director in the early 2000s when she was 15, got up and walked out of the room, followed by a few others, when Polanski was named best director for “An Officer and a Spy.”

Polanski didn't attend the ceremony, calling it a “public lynching.” He is still wanted in the United States, decades after he was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor but fled the country on the eve of sentencing.

The board that oversees the Césars has in recent months been considering possible rules to cover potential nominees who are suspected of crimes. That work continues.

In the meantime, the board has laid out regulations for this year's ceremony, announcing this week that “out of respect for the victims” it has “decided to not shine a light on people accused by judicial authorities of violent acts.”

Potential nominees won't be invited to this year's awards ceremony if they're under investigation for violence punishable with a prison sentence, notably sexual or sexist violence, the board said.

The same will also apply to people already convicted of such acts, the board said.




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