“All through the multitude of award nominations for KOTFM, Apple teamed up with West and CDG to advertise the movie and its costume design,” says Kristi Marie Hoffman of the studio, the guild and costume designer Jacqueline West in her six-claim grievance filed in LA Superior Courtroom at this time (learn it right here).
“Regardless of Hoffman being the first ACD and finishing a lot of the analysis and costume design for the movie, the Defendants not solely particularly excluded her involvement in its promotion but additionally fully ignored her work and as a substitute represented to the general public at giant that the costume design work, her work, was the product of West and a marketing consultant on the movie, Julie O’Keefe,” the jury trial in search of doc states.
Apple, Apple Studios, West and the Costume Designers Guild are all named as defendants within the grievance.
A veteran costumer on Captain America: Civil Battle and 2015’s The Revenent amongst a slew of credit, Hoffman is in search of a wide range of unspecified damages in addition to an injunction in opposition to additional promotion of the usually brutal movie primarily based on David Gran’s 2017 guide on the Osage murders of over 100 years in the past.
Nevertheless, with a 2022 settled e Equal Employment Alternative Fee dispute with the defendants and dust-up over her notation within the movie’s Costume Designers Guild Award in 2023, it’s clear this case wasn’t unknown to the events.
Represented by Katie Charleston Regulation of Huntington Seaside, Hoffman claims she was discriminated on the set of Flower Moon, and has been “focused” since she spoke out about her therapy on the movie and the aftermath:
xxHoffman, who has been within the tv and movie business since round 2004 and has contributed to many productions, poured her coronary heart into KOTFM as a movie about Native People to which she might relate as a Native herself.
Hoffman endured discriminatory conduct on the set of KOTFM, as she was subsequently discredited for her work throughout the movie’s promotion and launch and focused with advertisements celebrating West and O’Keefe for the outcomes of her onerous work.
Certainly, Apple and CDG labored collectively via sponsored advertisements to advertise West and O’Keefe for Hoffman’s work whereas failing to acknowledge her however making certain she obtained the advertisements via an e mail marketing campaign. Such actions additional exasperated the psychological and emotional anguish of Hoffman’s preliminary discrimination and subsequent elimination as a major contributor to the movie’s design, which obtained many accolades.
Since her EEOC Grievance, Hoffman has been focused via elimination efforts by Defendants for her contributions to the movie by Defendants’ promotion of West and O ‘Keefe for her efforts.xx
What’s odd about that is that below the present contract of the CDG, who’re in talks with the studios over the following IATSE Primary Settlement, Hoffman and any ACD are full below the jurisdiction of the costume designer, on this case West. It additionally appears that as a member of the guild Hoffman might lack the standing to quote the CDG as a defendant.
A difficulty which may be introduced up on the subsequent CDG common assembly on June 22. Which , on the velocity of justice in backlogged LA County courts, will doubtless be nicely earlier than this matter will get taken up in Choose Lisa Ok Sepe-Wiesenfeld’s Santa Monica courtroom.
