THE Catalan Academy of Cinema announced this Wednesday that, in accordance with its internal protocol, it would investigate the complaint for sexual harassment perpetrated on social networks by the director and photographer Silvia Grav against Edward Cortésdirector of series like Merli or more recently Not one more In Netflix.
Through, first his Instagram account and then X, Grav made it known that Cortés spent years treating him -online sexual harassment and abuse- when she was 19 and he was 55 with the “promise to help him professionally. “HASHi “continues to make films and series in Spain,” lamented the photographer. on their social networks.
Grav stressed that she was “1000% sure” she wasn’t the only one. “Four years of continuous testing of sexual approaches is a trend and not an isolated case,” and he stressed that Cortés deleted the Facebook account from which he made these proposals“I probably see them coming.”
After reminding his subscribers that The profile used by the director was hill catasked if anyone had experienced a similar situation, to let them know. After making their complaint public, a wave of women broke the silence by recounting similar cases and pointing the finger at the director.
Indeed, the photographer revealed in X that in less than three days, 15 other women declared themselves victims of Cortés and they shared their stories with her.
Now they are organizing to “decide together what is the best way to report this”, even though it has already been claimed that Their intention is to report the facts jointly. “The truth is we can’t deal with it,” Grav said.
The Academy’s investigation
Following these complaints, the Catalan Cinema Academy announced this Wednesday that it would activate its so-called Boarding fee to investigate the complaint against Cortés, member of the entity.
In addition, she made available to victims her specialized anti-maltreatment care team in the audiovisual sector, “strictly confidential”.
Since May 2022, the Academy has had a reception and prevention service for victims of harassment or abuse in the audiovisual or performing arts sector, a pioneering initiative in Europeborn from the controversy aroused by the cases detected at the Theater Institute of Barcelona and at L’Aula de Teatre de Lleida, among other training centers.
Furthermore, since last June, he has a guide protocol for the prevention and fight against sexist and LGTBI-phobic violence in the audiovisual sector.
The protocol establishes that filming must have a reference person against harassment and gender-based violence, as well as an intimacy coordinator for scenes with sexual content, among other points.
“Not one more”
Curiously, Cortés, who became famous with Merlirecently released on Netflix Not one morea mini-series about the reporting of a sexual assault committed by a 17-year-old girl in a high school.
Born in 1959, Cortés began his career as a director of television series in 1991, with famous titles in Catalonia such as O Europe! And Sitgesalthough it reached the general public with Merli.
In 2003 he was nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards for the film Nobody’s life. Other films he has directed are The Clown and the Führer, Ingrid either Near you.
