The Catalan Film Academy will study the public complaint of sexual harassment made by the director and photographer Silvia Grav against the director and member of the entity Eduard Cortés.
The Academy has reported this Wednesday that, following its internal protocol, it will activate its so-called Boarding Commission to deal with the complaint against Cortés, director of popular series such as ‘Merlí’ or more recently ‘Ni una más’, regarding the complaint of an attack. sexual activity by a 17-year-old girl in a high school.
Through, first of his Instagram account and later on the social network
In her profiles on the networks, Grav assures that the filmmaker, whose conversations she keeps, promised to help her professionally, being very insistent, although she never met him.
Born in 1959, Eduard Cortés began his career as a television series director in 1991, with well-known titles in Catalonia such as ‘Oh, Europe!’ and ‘Sitges’, although he reached the general public with ‘Merlí’, which has been seen in countries around the world.
This year he was one of the directors of the Netflix miniseries, ‘Ni una más’. 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’ and ‘Cerca de tu casa’.
Silvia Grav on her Instagram account has stated that she is “1000% sure” that she is not the only one. “Four years of continuous sexual advances are a pattern, not an isolated case,” and he highlighted that Cortés deleted the Facebook account from which he made these proposals, “probably seeing them coming.”
After reminding his followers that the profile the director used was ‘Gato del Cerro’, he asked that if anyone had gone through a similar situation to let him know.
Through X, she revealed that in less than three days, 15 other women have said they were victims of Cortés and have shared their stories with her. Now they are organizing to “decide together what is the best way to report this,” although they have already stated that their intention is to report the facts together. “The truth is that we can’t cope,” added Silvia Grav.
Given these events, the Catalan Film Academy will activate the boarding commission provided for in these cases to “determine the measures to be taken,” the entity has indicated. Likewise, it has made its specialized care team available to victims against abuses in the audiovisual sector, “strictly confidential.”
Since May 2022, the Academy has had a care and prevention department for victims of harassment or abuse in the audiovisual sector or the performing arts, a pioneering initiative in Europe, which was created as a result of the controversy raised by the cases detected. at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and at L’Aula de Teatre de Lleida, among other training centers.
Furthermore, since last June it has had a guide protocol for the prevention and addressing of sexist and LGTBI-phobic violence in the audiovisual sector. The protocol establishes that filming must have a reference person against harassment and sexist violence, as well as an intimacy coordinator for scenes with sexual content, among other points.
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