Press Releases
‘FERA Directors in Dialogue’ at 42nd Directors’ Fortnight
FERA Directors in Dialogue at Directors’ Fortnight
Agnes Varda meets Frederick Wiseman
Press Release – 5 May 2010
The next “FERA Directors in Dialogue” will take place on Thursday 13 May at 16:00 at the Théâtre Croisette (Palais Stéphanie) in Cannes.
On the opening night of the 42nd Directors’ Fortnight edition, SRF – the French Society of [...]
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FERA calls for the immediate release of Iranian director Jafar Panahi
The Federation of European Film Directors strongly condemns the reported arrest of Iranian Film director Jafar Panahi and his family Monday evening.
This disgraceful attempt at silencing a fellow film director is a blatant violation of fundamental human rights and speaks to the oppressive nature of the current Iranian regime. We condemn the arrest of [...]
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FERA Conference Documents
FERA CONFERENCE 28 JANUARY 2010
“Imagining Cinema in the Digital Age:
Creativity and New Ways of Distribution”
Press Release – 29 January 2010
FERA – the Federation of European Film Directors representing 37 professionals’ organisations in 29 countries – organised a conference on 28 January at the European Parliament in Brussels called “Imagining Cinema in the Digital Age: Creativity [...]
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Bulgarian government increased film fund
Bulgarian government increased film fund
On 23 November FERA wrote to the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture expressing its extreme concern for proposed 57% cut to the Film Fund. The Bulgarian Filmmakers Union has recently informed us that the state support to the national film industry was increased in the state budget for 2010 from
€4,250,000 to € [...]
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FERA attacks Italian Culture Cuts (July 2009)
FERA attacks Italian Culture Cuts
Press Release – 20 July 2009
The European Federation of Film Directors wishes to make clear its extreme concern at the massive 25% plus cuts proposed by Prime Minister Berlusconi for the Italian F.U.S. Cultural Funds. In particular Italian cinema is threatened with a reduction down to one fifth of its 2009 [...]
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FERA General Assembly, Budapest (June 2009)
FERA General Assembly Meeting on 11, 12 and 13 June, 2009 in Budapest (Hungary)
Over 60 film and TV Directors representing 27 countries met at the annual General Assembly in Budapest and called for a Common European contract “which sets out the rights and responsibilities of the audiovisual director”. “This is not about money, it’s about keeping [...]
FERA General Assembly, Dublin (June 2008)
FERA General Assembly Meeting on 31 May and 1 June, 2008 in Dublin (Ireland)
A high-profile international conference held in Dublin this weekend attended by over 60 film and television directors from across Europe, has strongly criticised the lack of implementation of their rights throughout European countries, and has called on urgent establishment of strong, enforceable [...]
FERA General Assembly, Dijon (October 2007)
FERA General Assembly Meeting on October 20 and 21, 2007 in Dijon (France)
33 representatives of 27 directors’ associations from 22 countries participated to the General Assembly meeting of FERA on October 20 and 21 in Dijon in the framework of the Dijon Film Forum at the invitation of ARP (www.larp.fr). Above administrative issues inherent to [...]
Iranian Director Jafar Panahi on hunger strike in Teheran