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

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.

Director Coralie Fargeat withdraws film from festival in protest of misogynistic remarks, sparking industry-wide discussion on inclusivity

Coralie Fargeat, the writer and director of The Substance, has withdrawn the satirical body-horror film from the Camerimage film festival in response to fest head Marek Żydowicz's controversial remarks about female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

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.