SCREENWRITERS AND DIRECTORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD PARTICIPATED IN THIS IMPORTANT MEETING OF AUDIOVISUAL AUTHORS.
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Our sacred Author´s Rights in the Brasilia Film Festival
Gathering around 500 directors, with 1,750 registered works, which represents the most consistent artistic and cultural GDP in Brazil, DBCA (Directors Brazil), a pioneer society in the defense of Authors’ Rights in the country, and the recent 53° Brazilian Film Festival in Brasilia (held between December 15th and 20th), historical moral and political trench of our cinema, reinforced in this edition, now closed, their mutual and live solidarity through the exchange of experiences on Collective Management Organizations (CMOs).
Creative sectors of Europe make themselves heard to ensure they receive 2% of the EU recovery package
A coalition of 110 European organizations representing all cultural and creative sectors (CACs) have sent a letter to the president of the European Commision, Ursula von der Leyden, and to the national governments of the European Union, urging them to include the CACs in the national recovery and stimulus plans, which are projected to have a budget of 750 million Euros.
Chile: Audiovisual Authors and members of ATN reach their first agreement on author´s rights payments with local cable companies
After an exemplary ruling by the Supreme Court of Chile confirming the unquestionable right of audiovisual authors to charge previously announced authors´ rights rates, cable TV companies have been the first to come to an agreement with authors.
Progress towards the creation of the first Audiovisual Authors International Confederation
The creation of the Audiovisual Authors International Confederation, which has been announced all over the world and approved by the general assembly of the Latin American Audiovisual Authors Societies Federation (FESAAL), continues to come closer to becoming a reality.
Meeting of WIPO and FESAAL on behalf of Audiovisual Authors of Colombia in the defense of authors´ rights in Latin America.
WIPO (Worldwide Organization for Intellectual Property) and FESAAL (Latin American Audiovisual Authors Societies Federation), in collaboration with DNDA (National Direction of Authors´ Rights) of Columbia, together with the CMOs REDES (Screenwriters of Colombia), and DASC ( Directors of Colombia), held an on-line debate about action taken to defend the rights of audiovisual authors in Colombia.
Nollywood, the film industry in Nigeria, has become the second biggest in the world.
Nollywood, as the film industry in that country is commonly called, turns out more than 2500 movies annually and is only behind Hollywood as the biggest producer of movies in the world.
FESAAL Annual Congress 2020 Latin American Audiovisual Authors
Latin American audiovisual societies will be the founders of the first International Confederation of Audiovisual Authors. Watch the testimonies of the Screenwriters and Directors in the video attached here.
FESAAL participated on the online conference “Creative Global Talks” for the entry into force of the Beijing Treaty “From Rome to Beijing”
Represented by Silvana Jarmoluk Stroganova, General Coordinator for the Europe/Asia Region of FESAAL (Federation of Latin American Audiovisual Authors)
W&DW Executive Committee will continue its work despite COVID-19
Audiovisual authors representing collective management organisations who are members of the Executive Committee of W&DW – Writers And Directors WorldWide, are continuing their work remotely in order to determine and quantify the damages the pandemic has caused for directors, writers and playwrights worldwide.