Filmmaker Sued by Former Assistant for Race Discrimination, Hostile Workplace

One of Randall Emmett’s former assistants has sued the once-prominent filmmaker, accusing him of racial discrimination and creating a hostile workplace that included the use of the N-word.

Martin G’Blae, 29, worked at the production company Emmett/Furla Oasis for much of 2020 and served as a production assistant on Emmett’s action movie “Midnight in the Switchgrass.”

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, G’Blae, who is Black, alleges that race discrimination was a factor in his termination.

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