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   From: pedophiles@abc.com   
      
   The entire board of the Cesar Academy, which awards France's   
   equivalent of the Oscars, resigned Thursday just two weeks   
   before its gala ceremony after more than 200 actors, producers,   
   directors and movie personalities demanded "profound reform".   
      
   The academy had come under fire after director Roman Polanski's   
   new film An Officer and a Spy topped the list of nominations for   
   this year's Cesar awards, which will be handed out on February   
   28.   
      
   Polanski has been wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a   
   13-year-old girl since 1978 and is persona non grata in   
   Hollywood.   
      
   "To honour those men and women who made cinema happen in 2019,   
   to find calm and ensure that the festival of film remains just   
   that, a festival, the board... has unanimously decided to   
   resign," the academy said in a statement.   
      
   "This collective decision will allow complete renewal of the   
   board," it added.   
      
   A general meeting will be held after the upcoming awards   
   ceremony to elect a new board and management who will work on   
   implementing reforms and modernisation, it said.   
      
   More than 200 actors, producers, directors and movie   
   personalities denounced the "dysfunction" at the academy and   
   "opaqueness" in its accounts, in an open letter on Wednesday.   
      
   They also complained that the founding statutes of the Cesars   
   had not changed in a long time and that the academy's nearly   
   5,000 members do not get a vote or a say in its decisions.   
      
   The academy's board in response said it would ask the National   
   Centre for Cinema, a culture ministry agency, to appoint a   
   mediator to oversee "deep reform" of its statutes and governance.   
      
   The academy had previously announced measures to boost female   
   representation in its membership and representation.   
      
   The inclusion of Polanski's film on the Cesars' shortlist was   
   condemned by France's equality minister, women's groups and film   
   critics, but the Cesar Academy said it could not be expected to   
   take "moral positions" when evaluating films.   
      
   A number of French feminist groups have urged Cesar voters to   
   snub Polanski's film, titled J'accuse in France and called for a   
   protest outside the award ceremony, which is to be held in   
   Paris' Salle Pleyel auditorium.   
      
   "When we mobilise, things happen!", feminist collective Nous   
   Toutes (All Of Us) wrote on Twitter.   
      
   Another group, Osez Le Feminisme (Dare Feminism), said: "Imagine   
   what's next. A new voting panel without male self-confidence,   
   opacity and sexism. Will we finally stop applauding rapists and   
   paedophiles on the run?"   
      
   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/mass-resignation-france-   
   film-academy-polanksi-row-200214015713421.html   
       
      
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