Deadline has reviewed an email sent to the board on Thursday that was signed by dozens of prominent figures in the documentary field including Gordon Quinn, Jim LeBrecht, Brett Story, Charlotte Cook, Joanna Natasegara, Nancy Schwarztman, Nicole Tsien and P.J. But it came to a head this week after the IDA posted job openings for the positions vacated by the ex-staffers. The controversy has been roiling the documentary field for weeks. The Board’s handling of our complaint and its unwillingness to engage in a dialogue about our clearly stated sets of concerns ultimately caused us to resign collectively in early January.” “Our concerns about workplace conduct and what we perceived as the Board’s and the Executive Director’s betrayal of public commitments to the field are what caused us to reach out to the Board in the first place. “The process and investigation that followed over the next nearly two months left us isolated, further diminished, and increasingly concerned about the future of the organization and colleagues on staff,” they wrote. Their statement sharply criticized the board’s investigation. “Our attempts to engage in dialogue were unsuccessful.” “From July through October 2021, we made several attempts to raise concerns with the Executive Director and several Board members about workplace conduct and organizational actions that did not align with IDA’s stated values,” their statement read. We are saddened that they decided to leave before an open and collaborative conversation could be had among staff, our new executive director Rick Pérez, and the Board.”īut in a statement exclusively obtained by Deadline, Bowman (the IDA’s former interim director of advocacy and programming), Chung (former senior director of partnerships and development), Halpin (former deputy director) and Teng (former director of IDA Funds and the Enterprise Program) said they had reached out repeatedly to the board, beginning last summer. The board took issue with the staffers for announcing their resignations “before the conclusions of the investigation were communicated. “To protect the individuals’ privacy, we can’t address the specifics of the complaints in this letter…,” the board said, “however we can share that this investigator concluded that the claims were unsubstantiated.” The letter reiterated, “…his result means that there were absolutely no findings to substantiate any purported discrimination or other claims.” IDA Awards Shifts 2022 Ceremony To March As Virtual-Only Event
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