European film organisations join forces to form anti-racism task force

The main goal of ARTEF is to dismantle racist structures and combat all forms of racism in the European film industry with a broad and intersectional approach. ARTEF aims to become a task force for change: by raising awareness, through education and information, with proposals to revise regulations and practices as well as against resistance from the industry - especially those who usually benefit from institutionalised racism.

After the first year, ARTEF will continue to organise training programmes for European filmmakers who want to fight institutionalised racism, work to dismantle existing structures and help build new, inclusive structures in the coming decades. Anyone who is or has been affected by racism in the European film industry is invited to join ARTEF and help build a meaningful task force.

So far, ARTEF has laid the foundations for future action. Now the Task Force is reaching out to all European film institutions, including festivals, film commissions and filmmakers' associations, to ask them to join ARTEF, participate in training, pool resources and turn awareness into action.

ARTEF invites filmmakers in all European countries to write to their institutions, collectives, trade unions and organisations to ask them to join ARTEF's work and contribute ideas, suggestions or requests.

ARTEF can be reached atartef@artef.org.

LIST OF MEMBERS Initiated by Matthijs Wouter Knol, the newly appointed CEO of the European Film Academy, ARTEF was co-founded by the current Board of Directors: Helene Granqvist (Executive Producer Nordic Film Factory and President of WIFTI), Paula Alvarez Vaccaro (Executive Producer Pinball London and Vice President of the European Producers Club) and Marion Schmidt (Co-Head of the Documentary Association of Europe).

Steering committee Paula Alvarez Vaccaro Véronique N. Doumbé Helene Granqvist Laurence Lascary Regina Mosch Marion Schmidt Matthijs Wouter Knol

Funding partner Bertha Foundation, British Film Institute, FOCAL, HessenFilm,MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-HolsteinInternational Sámi Film Institute, Film Fund Luxembourg, Netherlands Film Fund, Norwegian Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, with the support of the participating organisations ACE, EAVE, EWA and WIFTI as well as the production companies Magic Hour Films, Pinball London and other donors.

High-ranking representatives from the following organisations took part in the awareness-raising training sessions:

• ACE Producers

• British Film Institute

• Cinéastes non alignées

• Collectif 50/50

• Creative Diversity Network

• DAE — Documentary Association of Europe

• Doc Society

• EAVE

• European Film Academy

• EFM - European Film Market

• EFP - European Film Promotion

• EWA - European Women's Audiovisual Network

• EPC - European Producers Club

• FOCAL

• International Sámi Film Institute

• Magic Hour Films

• MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

• Netherlands Film Fund

• Norwegian Film Institute

• Pinball London

• Power to Transform

• Programmers of Colour Collective (POC2)

• ProQuote Film

• Swedish Film Institute

• Queer Media Society

• WIFTI — Women in Film and Television International