Several young professionals testify to problematic behavior on set. Illustrative image. Credit: Stéphanie Berlu /Getty Images
They are directors, technicians, producers or makeup artists and spend a large part of their lives on film sets. These places, marked by promiscuity, male domination and the absence of an adequate legal framework, become the scene of various forms of violence, often unknown or trivialized. A recent study by the Association of Mediterranean Meetings of Cinema and Human Rights (ARMCDH) highlighted the omnipresence of attacks based on gender in the cinema sector, their multiple manifestations, as well as the numerous obstacles to their denunciation. Here is his observation in detail
The Association of Mediterranean Meetings of Cinema and Human Rights (ARMCDH) has made public its study on gender-based violence in the cinema sector in Morocco. In its research process, the association carried out, among other things, 15 semi-structured interviews with professionals from the cinema sector in Morocco, namely 13 women and 2 men.
The study reveals that gender-based violence (GBV) in the cinema sector is part of a vicious cycle fueled by “a logic of predation”. This dynamic is based on authority relations, an insufficient legal framework and the vulnerability of potential victims. “It is a world where a relationship of power exercised by men over women is at play, a power which could be professional drawn from a hierarchical relationship of work, but above all reinforced by social relations of sex, hierarchical, and constructed by social norms and values »underlines the study.
Morocco has certainly ratified several conventions promoting the fight against discrimination. However, the fight against violence against women specifically in the workplace is not explicitly covered by a Moroccan legal framework. The laws are general and poorly adapted, underlines the study. There is, therefore, no specific legislation on gender-based violence (GBV) in the cinema sector.
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