EnergaCamerimage festival director Marek Żydowicz opened the 32nd edition of the event without any direct reference to his controversial comments that caused a firestorm this past week, saying that the festival was founded to honor those "who are overlooked" and not recognized by other awards.

The Substance’ is about the impact of exactly these types of behaviors on our world," Coralie Fargeat says The post ‘The Substance’ Director Pulls Film From Camerimage Over Festival Director’s ‘Misogynistic’ Comments appeared first on TheWrap.

The director of 'The Substance' announced she's withdrawing from Camerimage Film Festival over controversial comments from the event's CEO.

Coralie Fargeat, the writer and director of The Substance, has withdrawn the satirical body-horror film from the Camerimage film festival in response to fest head Marek Żydowicz's controversial remarks about female cinematographers.

Coralie Fargeat has pulled her film “The Substance” from Camerimage Film Festival following comments the festival director made about female cinematographers. “After discovering the highly misogynistic and offensive words of the director of the Camerimage Film Festival,

French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat has pulled her latest feature The Substance from Poland's Camerimage Film Festival following the fallout of a controversial op-ed written by the festival's founder and head Marek Żydowicz.

Camerimage Film Festival continues to be embroiled in controversy as "The Substance" writer/director Coralie Fargeat now joins the growing list of filmmakers pulling their entries from being screened.

The film's cinematographer, Benjamin Kracun, will also no longer attend the event kicking off Saturday in Poland.