[Filmfestivalresearch] Festival labour / working conditions of volunteers

Teissl Verena Verena.Teissl at fh-kufstein.ac.at
Tue Nov 9 09:58:04 CET 2021 

Hello to all of you,

in Austria, the Fair Pay- Campaign for the non-profit cultural sectors was initiated in 2012 by the national Interest Group IG Kultur, and has recently been included into the Government statement. The Forum Austrian Film Festivals (Forum österreichischer Film Festivals) has realized an exemplary process to implement Fair Pay for Film Festivals in Vienna.

I am part of the advisory board that has been established in this context and co-written an essay about the experiences. It has just been published in an issue of the International Art Management-Journal: 

Teissl, Verena; Mayerhofer, Elisabeth; Reid, Wendelin. 2021.  Austrian Film Festival Forum: Cultural Governance and Accountability in Viennese Film Festival. In: International Journal of Arts Management, Volume 24, number 1, S. 103-113. Montreal

I have signed do not share the article, however, you may find it at JSTOR, Web of Science and Proquest Central.

Also, Daniel Ebner, who is a co-founder of the Forum, knows the article and might support you.

All of this is not about volunteers but professional work.

All the best and kind regards,

Verena

 

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Von: Filmfestivalresearch <filmfestivalresearch-bounces at listcultures.org> Im Auftrag von Skadi Loist
Gesendet: Montag, 8. November 2021 19:58
An: 'Antoine Damiens' <a.damiens at gmail.com>; filmfestivalresearch at listcultures.org
Cc: 'alexandra maria colta' <alexandra.maria.c at gmail.com>; 'Daniel Ebner' <daniel.ebner at viennashorts.com>
Betreff: Re: [Filmfestivalresearch] Festival labour / working conditions of volunteers

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.  

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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://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffestivalarbeit.verdi.de%2F%2B%2Bfile%2B%2B60f180ca06db0b4cabd2ab36%2Fdownload%2FReport_2021_SurveyFairFestivalAward2020.pdf&data=04%7C01%7CVerena.Teissl%40fh-kufstein.ac.at%7C6f341317714d49014dee08d9a2e9e1e8%7Cf2f5ae21e4444206978e0e92718fff09%7C0%7C0%7C637719948734036941%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=INMehaBKJp1ydzXXa%2BFMFQ0gOGokBqm%2BpB9AoQWNk5o%3D&reserved=0 

 

You can also see the presentation (in English) that took place this July here: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FU5aBUjk1LLU&data=04%7C01%7CVerena.Teissl%40fh-kufstein.ac.at%7C6f341317714d49014dee08d9a2e9e1e8%7Cf2f5ae21e4444206978e0e92718fff09%7C0%7C0%7C637719948734036941%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=%2FT9Qpk7chpynTRJU%2FnQUAXME8VYdJRashk3ryd8I4pQ%3D&reserved=0 

 

 

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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-----Original Message-----
From: Filmfestivalresearch [mailto:filmfestivalresearch-bounces at listcultures.org] On Behalf Of Antoine Damiens
Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 7:44 PM
To: filmfestivalresearch at listcultures.org
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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