Become a member

Becoming a CIFEJ member is simple. According to our Bylaws, all new applications for admission as a member of CIFEJ are submitted to an admission committee made up of three members: the president, Mrs. Athina Rikaki, the executive director, Mrs. Jo-Anne Blouin, and a member from the same country as the candidate.

Please fill out the application form for CIFEJ membership and return it to us by e-mail . For more information please read the following.

Membership

CIFEJ is an international network of members – presently 150 in 55 countries.
By telephone, mail or email, CIFEJ helps build contacts that will strengthen children's audio-visual world and redefine their experience of cinema and television, and for the adults who create these images, who distribute them and who teach children how to understand them.

Activities

• Publishes CIFEJ Info six times a year, in English and French, with varied news from the milieu, an annual Calendar of Festivals, lists of prize-winning films and current productions. This newsletter is distributed to more than 500 individuals and organizations around the world.
• Organizes the Kids For Kids Festival, a festival of films made by children for children every year.
• Maintain databases of current titles for children and young people and the companies responsible for the production, distribution, and broadcast of these titles.
• Organizes international seminars and meetings to discuss the urgent issues that concern those working in media for children.
• Awards the CIFEJ Prize to festivals that screen quality films and television programs for children and young people.
• Coordinates specialized tours of films, for example, the Latin American Tour which brought feature films from several countries to children across Latin and South America who rarely have the opportunity to see productions from other cultures.
• Publishes the Who's Who of members once a year.
• Researches the laws and policies governing children's media around the world, published in the Creating A Space for Children series.
  

Benefits for a CIFEJ member

• Subscription to CIFEJ Info, an interactive newsletter that allows members to send in information on their current productions or their need of financial co-producers, and to publish articles or interesting notifications.
• Inscription in the Who's Who, a descriptive address-book of all CIFEJ members and their activities.
• Free access to an audiovisual database of current titles for children and young people.
• Special registration fees on seminars and meetings, including the biennial General Assembly (the next GA will take place in Iran in 2005).
• Free access to research, studies and publications related to policies, laws and guidelines governing children's media, and children's tastes.
• Beneficiary of the solidarity of the only and largest network of professionals concerned with the promotion of excellence in the audio-visual media for young audiences, through which the experiences of one is available to the other.
• Possibility of being invited as a CIFEJ Jury member in different Children's Film and / or Television programs Festivals around the world.