Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
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The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Guylaine Maroist, hosted by Bruno Dequen
In fall 2017, the #MeToo shook the planet, sparking an unprecedented wave of sexual assault accusations in the Western world. Now a storm of virulent misogyny rages on, flooding our screens with harassment, defamation, lynching, sextortion, the sharing of intimate photographs, rape and deaths threats... Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age follows four women and one man whose lives have been particularly affected by online violence.
Léa Clermont-Dion
Léa Clermont-Dion is a filmmaker and postdoctoral research associate at Concordia University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Université Laval. Her research focuses on cyber-violence against women, women’s empowerment on social media, violence against women, etc. She was awarded the Vanier Fellowship, one of the most prestigious doctoral fellowships in Canada. She has worked with the Conseil du statut de la femme, the Secrétariat à la condition féminine and the Association Munyu des femmes de la Comoé, an OXFAM partner in Burkina Faso. She has given over 200 presentations on women’s issues, including presentations to the Council of Europe. She has directed a dozen short films for Radio-Canada in Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Hungary and Germany. She is the director many documentaries, including T’as juste à porter plainte (2021), Janette et filles (2021), Je vous salue salope : la misogynie au temps du numérique (2022) and La peur au ventre (2024), and the author of many books.
Photo: Laurent Guérin
Guylaine Maroist
After studying Law, Cinema and Musicology at the Université de Montréal, Guylaine Maroist became a freelance journalist for Le Devoir in the early 1990s. She eventually founded her own company to produce auteur documentaries with producer and director Eric Ruel. As president, she transformed the company into a true content creation incubator, working in television, cinema, the web and education. In 2015, she was appointed as a member of the of the non-governmental organization Pugwash, becoming the first filmmaker in history to sit on the board of the organization, which, since 1957, has been influencing the United Nations and world leaders on issues of peace and nuclear disarmament. She has notably directed the documentaries God Save Justin Trudeau (2014), Expo 67 : Mission impossible (2017), Jukebox (2020) and Je vous salue salope : La misogynie au temps du numérique (2022).
Photo: Laurent Guérin
