WCC writes open letter expressing sadness over Vidhu Vincent's resignation and slander

Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) on Wednesday wrote an open letter addressing filmmaker and founder of collective Vidhu Vincent's resignation and slander. In open letter, cinema collective expressed ir sadness over Vidhu Vincent quitting forum and added that leaving film body was her individual personal decision and y respect it. WCC also mentioned in letter that Vidhu Vincent never addressed issues she was facing to collective openly. 

Women in Collective was started back in 2017. Since its inception, Vidhu Vincent has been a part of cinema collective and has held m through thick and thin. Check out WCC's letter. 

WCC addresses Vidhu Vincent's resignation and what went wrong: 

Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) would like to register our sadness and dismay at our Founder member and colleague Vidhu Vincent’s decision to distance herself from Collective.

Vidhu has played an integral part in shaping Collective from time of its formation. We hold in high regard her interventions in strengning working mechanisms within Collective, supporting survivors to pursue legal cases, designing media strategies and liaising with government authorities.

As a young and small collective surviving in a hostile environment, our members have had to really hold on to one ar for strength. WCC’s three-year history has evidenced that sisterhood through many difficult times when our members have stood shoulder to shoulder to protect our Collective’s principles. We have individually had many attacks, but we have tried to learn from m as our cause is bigger than any one individual.

Vidhu’s resignation is her individual decision and we respect it. While we welcome her criticisms, slander is unfortunate. We are shocked at organisational allegations, which were never raised by her until this sudden resignation. We believe fact and objectivity are key at moment.

As Vidhu is aware, WCC does t in any way facilitate making or promotion of any films or regulate who its members work with. As a Collective we have discussed professional and personal conflicts that arise for each of us in working alongside our detractors in a small industry, without compromising WCC. This matter was also discussed in context of Vidhu’s film in Managing Committee meeting on 15.9.19. discussion included individual work associations of or members too. Since some members, including Vidhu, were absent, matter was set aside for more inputs and furr deliberations. minutes were shared with all members.

Many members had personally reached out to Vidhu several times over last year sensing her dis-engment with Collective; sadly ne of se were positively reciprocated. At point was any explanation demanded from Vidhu, all we hoped was to re-eng with one of our once most active colleagues. We just wish Vidhu had held on to mutual trust and spoken her mind, as she, like every or member of Collective is empowered to do.

Furr, WCC came toger as a support and advocacy forum for women in Malayalam cinema and t a grievance redressal cell. To all members' kwledge including Vidhu, we have done our best to stand by women who reached out to us and supported m to extent of ir journeys.

True to collective spirit, WCC’s managing committee comprises all founding members, including Vidhu, and we function in a lateral structure of teams with all work being done in a voluntary capacity. We are far from ideal we seek to be, but powered by constructive criticism from within and outside WCC, we hope to evolve. We remain open to engaging in conversations with Vidhu that will strengn WCC while respecting safe that we have all strived so hard to create.

As a feminist collective, we strive to learn from experiences of women and also be an inclusive and safe for articulation of all kinds of voices. We cherish and seek to furr a culture of debate and open dissent amongst our members who come from diverse social backgrounds.

We would like to ackwledge all those who have reached out to us at this time and continue to repose faith in WCC. Our friends among media and public, please kw that we are stronger because of your support.

We wish Vidhu best in all her future endeavours. Also wishing good health and peace of mind to everyone during this time of Covid-19.

Onward!

Women in Cinema Collective

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What led to Vidhu Vincent's resignation

Recently, Kerala state-award winning director Vidhu Vincent revealed on her social media that she is resigning from WCC due to personal and political reasons. Following her resignation, Vidhu Vincent wrote an elaborative post explaining her struggles to get a producer for her last release Stand Up and injustice she faced in WCC. She pointed fingers at actor Parvathy and said that she waited for six months for actor Parvathy to give her d for her movie Stand Up. However, actor never replied, and Vindu Vincent decided to approach Rajisha Vijayan and Nimisha Sajayan, who agreed to be a part of project. 

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Women in Cinema Collective was established in 2017 after a famous Malayalam female actor was attacked by one of technicians of her film. collective strives to create equal opportunities for women in cinema. Popular Malayalam actors and technicians like Manju Warrier, Geetu Mohandas, Anjali Men, Parvathy, among ors are a part of collective.