ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in the middle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the ensuing need to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was they broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at the statistics and who's going to tell the story is what i'm really helping us that the normalization of that kind of institutiona

ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in the middle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the ensuing me to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was the broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at this it says the statistics and who's going to tell the story is what i'm really helping us that the normalization of that kind of in

ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in themiddle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the suing me to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was they broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at this sophistication who's going to tell the stories what i'm really helping us that the normalization of that kind of institutional sex

of france and from united states historian ellen harrington director of the german film institute. last week our panelists debated the meat to movement and its global effects. this time they'll tackle the a sign of self-determination. a symbol of oppression. what i say is that as a woman you should be free to do whatever you want to do you with your body if you want to or his job you should be free not to wear it if you don't want to wear hijab you should be supported in order not to wear it and what's going on for example now in iran is very interesting. because women are protesting in the street to protest against the fact that the job is is that is mandatory and you even see women with his job supporting their know his job and sisters in their right not to wear it and that's something i tried very make really make clear because there is something that is very patronize ing when you see a woman who has a hit job and you say you know to me feminism means to be uncovered any comments on this they'll depict before we start you know. defending the right of women to wear the veil let

and last but not least ellen harrington is an american curator and film programmer in january she took over as director of the german film institute in frankfurt for over two decades she worked for the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences in los angeles and as such experience the need to debate out very close range a warm welcome to all of you round of applause thank you for joining me thank you coming thank you very much to our studio audience i mean wow ladies and gentlemen rather than fade out need to continue to have an almost daily ripple effect in the news and so before we get started we're going to have a quick recap of the. turbulent times of me two. women in chile are protesting it's become a huge demonstration like never before in this country against sexism and violence she may be the one who got the ball rolling inadvertently harvey weinstein once a powerful movie mogul now indicted on charges of rape he ruled over a cartel of silence. that is over no more shame no more silence he led me to his bathroom pleading that i just watch him masturbate time was up a world w