Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai
The Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai (CICAE) is an international association of film art theaters based in Berlin. The main purpose is to promote and support the art of film as well as the art house sector. It is the only international art cinema organization of its kind.
History and facts
The CICAE was founded in 1956 by the national art cinema associations of Germany , France , the Netherlands and Switzerland as a lobby organization with the aim of promoting the art cinema sector and protecting cinematic diversity against the predominance of so-called commercial film. Since then, the CICAE has united independent film art theaters as well as those already associated in national associations with a total of almost 3000 screens, 15 film festivals and a certain number of film distributors from around 30 countries in an international umbrella organization. The registered office is in Paris . The office of President is currently (2012) Detlef Roßmann.
Objectives
According to its statutes, the self-declared goals are to expand cooperation among its members and to exert influence on national and international authorities so that they recognize and support the art film industry, as well as the circulation and distribution of films that it considers to be of high quality, to expand. In addition, the CICAE tries to make special films and the entire art film industry more popular through cultural initiatives and publications.
The association also organizes workshops that are aimed primarily at film art cinema operators and managers and are intended to impart the know-how to manage and maintain art house cinemas and to set up an appropriate program.
CICAE Art Cinema Award
Similar to the FIPRESCI Film Critics Association ( FIPRESCI Prize ), the CICAE is represented at numerous international film festivals with its own prize. It presents the CICAE Art Cinema Award as part of these festivals. These include the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes, the Berlinale and the Venice International Film Festival .
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/preise_unabh_ngigen_jurys/index.html
