Cannes Festival Workers Group Calls for Strike Action

A French collective representing the pursuits of French movie competition employees has referred to as for a basic strike “of all workers of the Cannes Movie Competition and of its sidebars.”

The Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens) collective, made the decision in a public assertion on Monday.

The group has lengthy been sounding the alarm concerning the precarious nature of movie competition work, which generally entails short-term freelance contracts. However not like different so-called intermediate employees within the leisure business, many competition employees will not be lined by France’s unemployment insurance coverage program, that means they don’t qualify for unemployment advantages in between jobs or tasks.

The Sous les écrans famous that the newest set of profit reforms, set to undergo on July 1, will additional tighten the principles for workers.

“These reforms are throwing competition employees in such precariousness that almost all of us must surrender our jobs, thus jeopardizing the occasions we participate in,” the group mentioned.

Thus far, the group mentioned, the Cannes competition, the French ministry of tradition and the French movie board, the CNC, have greeted employee issues “with well mannered consideration [but] not concrete measures have been supplied. That’s the reason the upcoming opening of the Cannes competition is leaving us with a bitter style.”

A strike might disrupt the Cannes competition, which kicks off Could 14 and runs by means of Could 25, in addition to related sidebars together with Administrators’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week, and ACID Cannes. The 12-day occasion consists of the starry premieres of such hotly-anticipated movies as George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, and Kevin Costner’s Western epic Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1.

The Sous les écrans la dèche motion has appreciable assist inside the French business. On the pink carpet for her Palme d’Or successful movie Anatomy of a Fall final yr, French filmmaker Justine Triet and Anatomy actor Swann Arlaud pinned the group’s vivid pink button on their lapels. Strike or no, anticipate to see much more Sous les écrans pins on the pink carpet this yr.

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the Cannes movie competition for remark.

You’ll be able to learn the complete launch from the Sous les écrans la dèche under.

For a yr now, we, members of the Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the
Screens) collective, have been warning concerning the rising precariousness of the
individuals working in movie festivals.

We go from short-term missions to intervals of unemployment and regardless of the
intermittent nature of our career and our striving for the circulation of
cinematographic work, our exercise doesn’t fall inside the French intermittent standing
profit plan for present enterprise employees!

The most recent reforms of unemployment advantages in France and the one scheduled for
July 1st of this yr, which can be handed by decree, are additional hardening the profit
guidelines for employment seekers.

These reforms are throwing competition employees in such precariousness that almost all
of us must surrender our jobs, thus jeopardizing the occasions we participate in.
Due to this fact, we demand that the organizations which make use of us be affiliated to a
collective settlement permitting us to be employed below the standing of present enterprise
employee’s intermittence and that our positions be built-in to the unemployment
profit system, retroactive to the final 18 months.

Our warnings and calls for have been acquired with well mannered consideration to date, however
no concrete measure has been supplied by the CNC or the Ministry of Tradition.
That’s the reason the upcoming opening of the Cannes competition is leaving us with a bitter
style.

In a context of utmost vulnerability and absolute emergency to guard our work, and
after session and vote of the members of the collective, we name for a strike of all
workers of the Cannes Movie Competition and of its sidebars.

Sous les écrans la dèche collective
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