Jordan Moreau The International Documentary Association announced the 17 feature-length and 25 short documentaries included on the shortlists for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, which will be held during the week of Dec. 11in Los Angeles.
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Steven J. Horowitz Kenny MacPherson, CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group, faces allegations of sexual battery and harassment in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by a woman who previously worked with him at the music publishing company Chrysalis. Sara Lewis, who worked with MacPherson when he was president of the music publishing shingle Chrysalis, filed the suit on Oct.
4, listing MacPherson and BMG as defendants. She worked with MacPherson in the mid-2000s as an A&R, claiming that his actions under his leadership drove her out of the industry. In the suit, she alleges that she “endured an onslaught of unwanted sexual advances by MacPherson, who unabashedly used his power and authority to exact Sara’s compliance and submission.” Lewis claims that MacPherson spent years grooming and harassing her, engaging in non-consensual touching, groping and traumatic sexual assault.
The suit details how the harassment was well-known among colleagues and executives, but that they scolded her behind her back and protected MacPherson from accountability. At the time, MacPherson was president and senior executive at Chrysalis Music Division North America, amassing clients like OutKast and Thom Yorke. Chrysalis merged with BMG in December 2012.
Jordan Moreau The International Documentary Association announced the 17 feature-length and 25 short documentaries included on the shortlists for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, which will be held during the week of Dec. 11in Los Angeles.
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Rolling Stone, MacPherson’s attorney stated that they “vehemently deny all allegations made against Mr. MacPherson in Ms.
Ubisoft executives have been arrested following an investigation into alleged instances of sexual assault and harassment within its offices.Per Libération, three individuals were arrested on October 3 and another two were taken into custody on October 4. Among them are Tommy François and Serge Hascoët, who both left the publisher after the allegations were made public.François was Ubisoft Paris’ vice president of editorial and creative services, working on series like Assassin’s Creed, Prince Of Persia, Tom Clancy’s The Division, Watch Dogs and others.Joining in 1988, Hascoët served as Ubisoft’s chief creative officer and oversaw the reboots and revivals of Assassin’s Creed and the two Tom Clancy properties Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.Several years ago, Ubisoft was accused of housing “a toxic system within the [third] biggest studio in the industry, dominated by untouchable men, protected by ‘a wall of HR'” in the report published by Libération in 2020.In response, Ubisoft commenced its own investigations into the claims and conducted an internal survey, concluding one in five employees did not feel “fully respected or safe in the work environment”.Additionally, women were 30 per cent more likely to experience or witness discrimination than men, while non-binary people were 43 per cent more likely to be targeted.“We want to start by apologising to everyone affected by this – we are truly sorry,” said Ubisoft in a statement, pledging that it would “do better” in the future.“Ubisoft has no knowledge of what has been shared and therefore can’t comment,” said a spokesperson to Gamesindustry.biz on the arrests.
Variety first reported.A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday morning in the New York Supreme Court.The disgraced movie producer — who is currently serving a 23-year sentence in jail for rape — allegedly sexually assaulted Ormond in 1995 after a business dinner.The “Sabrina” star was reportedly “lured” into a private room with Weinstein, who asked her to give him “a massage, climbed on top of her, masturbated and forced her to give him oral sex.”Ormond then told her agents at CAA, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, about the incident that transpired.The court docs state that the men advised against speaking out and did not give her their protection.The “Curious Case of Benjamin Button” star is suing the talent company for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.The Walt Disney Company was the parent corporation that purchased Miramax — the film production office that Weinstein and his brother Bob founded in 1979 — in the 1990s.Ormond is coming at the two brands for negligent supervision and retention.“Our client has suffered tremendously both personally and professionally due to the assault by Harvey Weinstein, and the failure from Disney, Miramax and CAA to prevent it and to appropriately respond when she reported what happened,” Ormond’s attorneys said in a statement.
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