A seasoned partner film editor has filed a censure of harassment, gender taste and prejudicial stop opposite Walt Disney Pictures and Muppets movie editor James Thomas. “Defendants retaliated opposite Plaintiff, combined a antagonistic work sourroundings and treated Plaintiff differently given she was an Asian lady over age 40, and consummated Plaintiff’s practice given of her gender, competition and family responsibilities and given she done good faith complaints and opposite Defendants’ wrong conduct,” says a censure (read it here) filed by Cecilia Hyoun’s counsel on Jun 3 in LA Superior Court. “Defendants also secretly claimed that Plaintiff’s position was being eliminated, given in law and in fact a subordinate masculine worker with vastly reduction knowledge than Plaintiff was promoted to her position,” adds a censure of her Jun 1, 2011, exclusion from The Muppets. Hyoun is seeking saving indemnification to be dynamic by a justice in a jury hearing for her mislaid wages, ill pay, and vacation pay. Hyoun started work on The Muppets in a tumble of 2010 and claims she even incited down another pursuit during Paramount given she approaching to be operative on a film until Nov of 2011. Claiming that Thomas done disastrous comments about her race, a postproduction oldster is also seeking punitive indemnification and mental and romantic trouble indemnification as good as seductiveness and authorised costs and “other and serve service as a justice deems only and proper”. The unenlightened 7 explain filing opposite Disney, Thomas and DMP Productions also says that Hyoun previously had brought a emanate to a California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Hyoun says she perceived a right-to-sue minute from a state group after they investigated a matter. The gifted partner editor records in her censure that she has not landed a full-time gig and gets calls for work distant reduction mostly given being let go from The Muppets several months before she was led to trust her pursuit would end. At a same time, she appears to be underneath no illusions of a consequences of her authorised action. “Like many, many people in a suit design industry, Plaintiff is aroused of being blackballed for station adult to a vital studio over a discriminatory practices,” records a complaint.

The 2011 Muppets film was not indeed a initial time Hyoun had worked with Thomas. The plaintiff was a initial partner editor on 2010’s Hot Tub Time Machine, where Thomas was one of a dual editors. During her 16 years in a industry, Hyoun also has worked as a initial partner editor on a Cameron Crowe-directed Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky as good as on 8 Mile, Charlotte’s Web and other films. Despite that experience, a censure filed this week says that on The Muppets, Thomas perpetuated “severe and pervasive harassment” against Hyoun as good as done “derogatory comments” about other women concerned in a postproduction process. The plaintiff also claims that a editor told a singular mom that she indispensable to select between her career and her family. “On information and faith he did not survey masculine employees this way,” claims a complaint. 

Hyoun is represented by Carol Gillam of LA’s The Gillam Law Firm.

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