A few months ago, with the Goya season, a euphoric climate was breathed on our audiovisual sector that made us breastfeed. Him Made in Spain From The small and big screen is proud Although we are not part of the sector.
And it is a feeling that you can surely identify every time you open a platform of streaming And the faces of our country play you. We reached it, we are there. Although there is much that we don’t see that result, but who share – more national audiovisual works: Violence against women.
It is something that this Thursday was evident after the presentation of the First state relationship on sexual violence In the Spanish audiovisual industry, an investigation into the Media and audiovisual media association of women (Cima) which documents not only as a work, but the impact on women’s lives in the sector.
Violence in the cinema is structural, systemic and has been invisible by its normalization, some of the conclusions that present Medici Bárbara Tardón and Nerea Barjola In After silence. Impact of sexual abuse and violence against women in the film and in the audiovisual industry (which can already be consulted On his website).
From the school of interpretation to jetsThrough offices, filming, promotion parties or the distribution of films, the over 300 women who are part of their research confirm what has advanced Him #Me too A few years ago. This violence is part of the work environmentIt is based on hierarchical inequalities and women in industry They feel it inevitable.
The researchers also give the alarm on the most vulnerable in the sector, Young women suffering from double discrimination Because teachers of the Academy, directors of casting Or the producers see them as “dams” and their consent is not free at the time when they are in a vulnerability situation with someone who admires or a certain sexual practice away from achieving a project.
It is not new in Spanish cinema. “A very important director of the time loved me for a film and was”The boobs also want to touch the director to see if this wants it for the film“” Research records on the testimony of one of the participants in a discussion group from 55 to 77 years.
This is something that has a huge impact on women’s lives, since many of those who have lived situations of sexual violence They cannot continue their Labor career And in addition to physical and psychological consequences that drag themselves for life.
A very important director of the time loved me for a film and it was “he also wants to touch the tits the director to see if he wants it for the film”
We must not forget that the support of this violence is that it protects itself in the collective silence, first in fear of talking about the victims in order not to be believed or to be re -growing, but also The silence of those who see or know behaviors and shut up.
This, even if I would like to report, Nerea Barjola and Lardon Barbara have also reflected in the report The inefficiency of the protocols -What become something more symbolic than effective-, as well as the absence of inspections or that there are no transformative formations, since the current ones do not go over 5 or 10 hours.
Sexual violence, a risk of work within the sector
The data of hundreds of women in the sector who participated in the investigations (from 20 to 80 years) are chilling, such as 60.3% said they had suffered a sort of sexual violence81% said they had suffered verbal harassment, 49.5% of physical harassment and 22.3% of sexual violence in the digital plan.
There is unanimity in the reaction: 92% did not report6.9% did so in front of a security body, a regional police or a court and only 13.6% told a person responsible (superior or human resources). And that great lack of acting for what happened is not even a coincidence.
First of all, the lack of credibility or mockery by the work team is already the first device of silencealso the distrust of the reporting channels oi Absence of effective action and monitoring mechanisms. Without forgetting the pressure of the work for fear of retalities.
“If we have to get this person out of the project, we will have to paralyze the shooting e Now we cannot start filming“, They are another memory of one of the women in the relationship that gave their testimony for research.
The conclusion is that all professional women (actresses, direction, art, make -up, hair, sound, script, production, postproduction …) have faced some form of sexual violence in the sector and that The impunity of the attackers prevails and the environment that silences him.
It is a form of discrimination that repeats all ages and contexts, in work, in free time, in private and digital spaces and acts as an exclusion mechanism push women out of the sector.
His goal, says Guadalupe Balaguer (president of the upper part) at the end of the press conference, is a safe and free industry, in fact the request for urgent measures is clear in his investigations. If this is a starting point, it is a positivism to which There is nothing more than clinging.
But my most negative part -they are realistic -light of light when chatting with a partner before leaving the day, I can no longer avoid asking me how many films or series that I have seen in recent years They appeared in the testimonies of violence.
