The Catalan Cinema 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 Cortes.
The Academy reported this Wednesday that, following its internal protocol, will activate its so-called Boarding Commission to address the complaint against Cortés, director of popular series such as Merli or more recently Not one moreabout the report of sexual assault by a 17-year-old girl at a high school.
Through, first of his Instagram account and later on the social network X (formerly Twitter), Grav has announced that Cortés spent years making him grooming (harassment and sexual abuse online) when she was 19 years old and he was 55. In his social media profiles, Grav assures that the filmmaker, whose conversations he keeps, land promised to help her professionallybeing very insistent, although she never stayed with 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 Sitgesalthough it reached the general public with Merlithat It has been seen in countries around the world. This year He has been one of the directors of the Netflix miniseries, Not one more. 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 Close to your house.
Silvia Grav, through Instagram, has stated that she is “1000% sure” that she is not the only one. “Four years of trying continuous sexual approaches 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. From Instagram he has revealed that in less than five days, Another 26 women have said they are victims of Cortés and they 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 report the facts jointly. “The truth is that we can’t cope,” added Silvia Grav.
Given these facts, The Catalan Cinema Academy will activate the boarding commission provided for in these cases to “determine the measures to take,” 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 a care and prevention department for victims of harassment or abuse in the audiovisual sector or the performing arts, a pioneering initiative in Europewhich was created as a result of the controversy raised by the cases detected at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and 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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