Canadian Film and Television Production Association - Association canadienne de production de film et télévision

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The Canadian Film and Television Production Association - Association canadienne de production de film et télévision was founded in 1948 to represent the interests of independent producers of audiovisual content in Canada . In 2010 she represented around 400 companies that were active in this area. She has offices in Ottawa , Toronto and Vancouver . The CFTPA sees its tasks in acting as an interest group vis-à-vis the government in Ottawa and those of the provinces and territories, negotiating employment contracts similar to the general collective agreements, implementing mentoring programs for authors and artists, and protecting copyrights. There are also annual meetings and overview publications on the development of the industry, such as the GUIDE .

In 2010 the CFTPA announced the figures for the "screen-based industry" for the years 2008-2010 in Canada. Thereafter, sales in the industry rose from 2008/09 to 2009/10 from 4.8 to 4.9 billion dollars. It offered a total of 117,200 full-time jobs. The share of Canadian television productions fell from 2 to 1.9 billion and the number of jobs was 47,300. The theater productions with 7,300 employees had sales of 308 after 217 million; foreign companies in the sector employed 35,900 people with sales that rose from 1.4 to 1.5 billion dollars. The radio production fell from 1.17 to 1.11 billion dollars in sales with 26,600 jobs.

history

The CFTPA was initially named Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada (AMPPLC) when it was founded, as it represented production and post-production in the film industry before the spread of television . In 1974 the association changed its name accordingly to the Canadian Film & Television Association (CFTA). On September 12, 1984, the now national organization was renamed the Canadian Film & Television Association ”/ Association canadienne de cinéma-télévision in order to meet the requirement of the official bilingualism of Canada.

In the 1980s, a period of rapid growth in the Canadian film industry, competing associations emerged, such as the Canadian Association of Motion Picture Producers , which was merged with the CFTA in 1985. This made a number of individuals, mostly producers and writers , members of the CFTA. The Canadian Television Program Distributors followed her in 1988 . A year later, on the initiative of the CFTA, the Canadian Retransmission Collective was set up in order to be able to react to the changed copyright laws and the free trade agreement with the USA and Mexico . The latter allowed relay broadcasts of American programs to Canada. In 1990, The Association of Canadian Film and Television Producers joined the CFTA. It was founded in 1984 to represent the interests of the larger producers.

The merger resulted in the CFTPA, which in turn changed its name on October 25, 1990 from Canadian Film & Television Association / Association canadienne de cinema-télévision to Canadian Film and Television Production Association - Association canadienne de production de film et télévision . In order to be able to react to local changes, the BC Producers' Branch of Canadian Film and Television Production Association was established on October 3, 1994 in British Columbia .

These mergers and foundings were, on the one hand, about coping with new technologies and legal bases, and on the other hand, the integration of areas of film that play a particularly important role in Canada, namely the areas of teaching, training and continuing education. Therefore, in 1998, the Educational Rights Collective of Canada was created , which represents the copyright holders of all media productions used by educational and training institutions. Accordingly, in 1999 the Producer's Audiovisual Collective of Canada (PACC) was formed , which took care of the income from the sale of data carriers and the rental of films. Since 2001 it has also represented the new media .

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  1. ↑ Factsheet, CFTPA ( Memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), archive.org, March 22, 2012.
  2. ^ Website of the BC Producers' Branch Council ( Memento of November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), archive.org, November 6, 2011.