The Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) will show his support “to all victims who suffer harassment and who feel that their rights are violated” with an action during the 38th Goya Awards galanext February 10, exhibiting a pai pai with the motto ‘#SEACABÓ’. “The filmmakers will exhibit a pai pai with the motto #SEACABÓ, with which they want raise awareness among all professionals of cinema and audiovisual situations abuse of power and sexual violence that the victims suffer,” the association said in a statement.

CIMA has reiterated that this action is “a appeal” to women and men of the Spanish audiovisual industry to not allow harassment situations to “perpetuate”. “The time has come to say enough is enough,” she remarked. Furthermore, the association has advanced that will carry out the first report on sexual violence and abuse of power in cinema and audiovisuals, with the support of the Ministry of Equality. “CIMA is working to serve as an intermediary in all these cases, with the aim of providing information and adequate support to women who have suffered any type of sexual assault in the industry. The purpose is to outline a direct referral path from CIMA to expert professional teams as soon as possible,” he explained.

Currently, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media is in contact with experts in sexual violence from the legal and psychosocial field, with professional teams from the free specialized resources that exist at the disposal of victims and survivors in each territory and with the public institutions competent in the comprehensive recovery of victims of sexual violence. . Likewise, work is being done on the creation of the Practical Guide to Urgent Response to Cases of Sexual Violencel for Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media and in a Map of Specialized Public Resources that can accompany women in their process. CIMA has created an email address, available to all women filmmakers who need information: ‘atencion@cimamujerescineastas.es’.

The 2024 Goya Awards, which will hold their gala on February 10 at the Valladolid Fair, are already warming up in a week prior to the celebration marked by the accusations of three women against the film director Carlos Vermouth for sexual violence. The Film Academy already spoke out at the beginning of last week through a statement in which it showed its “solidarity” with victims of sexual violence and “condemns” any abuse that occurs in the industry, reiterating that sexual violence at the Goya Awards “has no place.”

In fact, the institution has advanced that in the ceremony will make that claim visible that sexual violence and abuses of power have no place “neither in the world of cinema nor in Spanish society as a whole”, also reiterating how “fundamental” it is that the safety of women and gender equality ” becomes a reality.” The presenters of the gala, Ana Belén and ‘Los Javis’ (Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi), have shown themselves in this same line, who have already advanced that the script of the ceremony has suffered some changes after the revelation of these accusations.