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

Coralie Fargeat has pulled her film "The Substance" from Camerimage following comments the festival director made about female cinematographers.

In light of festival director's 'misogynistic' statements, writer/director Coralie Fargeat pulls 'The Substance' from Camerimage Film Festival.

Coralie Fargeat, the writer and director of The Substance, has withdrawn the satirical body-horror film from the Camerimage film festival in response to fest head Marek Żydowicz's controversial remarks about female cinematographers.

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.

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

"The Substance" director Coralie Fargeat is the latest filmmaker to bow out of the upcoming Camerimage Film Festival over festival director Marek Żydowicz's comments calling into question the quality of work from female cinematographers.