[Filmfestivalresearch] Festival labour / working conditions of volunteers

[Skadi Loist]

Hi Antoine, hi all:

 

There is the initiative „Fair Festival” from a subsection of the Verdi Union in Germany, which gives out an award to the festival that was rated as the fairest from their members.  

https://festivalarbeit.verdi.de/umfrage/++co++1614aa8a-e609-11eb-8afa-001a4a160100 

 

The award was given for the first time this summer.  (For full disclosure, my students and I set up the questionnaire, ran the survey and did the report).  You can read the English version of the Report here: https://festivalarbeit.verdi.de/++file++60f180ca06db0b4cabd2ab36/download/Report_2021_SurveyFairFestivalAward2020.pdf 

 

You can also see the presentation (in English) that took place this July here: https://youtu.be/U5aBUjk1LLU 

 

 

However, I believe there was something else going on in Scotland, that Alexandra Colta was involved in!?

There was also another initiative on festival labor in Austria.  

 

Yet, I seem to recall that someone else was mentioning an initiative directly addressing volunteers (rather than employed festival workers) – for either UK or Canada?! Am also curious to hear more... 

 

Cheers

Skadi 

 

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Subject: [Filmfestivalresearch] Festival labour / working conditions of volunteers

 

Hi everyone,

 

I’m teaching a course on the labour of festival organizers next week, and I seem to remember someone mentioning (at NECS, I believe?) some efforts to improve the lives of volunteers. I must confess my memory is a bit blurry (this point of the semester, plus this was pre-pandemic), but this either took the form of a charter or of a union, I want to say in Germany? Does that ring a bell, and if so, would you be able to kindly point me in the right direction? 

 

Thank you so much in advance - missing all of you. I hope we will get to catch up in person very soon,

 

Antoine

 

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