AVACI elected new authorities: Klemen Dvornik was appointed as President

During the last International Congress of AVACI, held from May 2 to May 5, 2023, in the city of Río de Janeiro, Brazil, the International Confederation of Audiovisual Authors elected its new authorities to take office for the period 2023-2025.

The four continents, which are members of AVACI, are represented by the new authorities who, throughout these two years of work, will put into operation all the statutory bodies during the current period.

The brand-new President of AVACI, the Slovenian audiovisual director and screenwriter, Klemen Dvornik (AIPA), appreciated the “vote of confidence” to chair the entity and asserted that among the “priorities for the next two years we need, first of all, to strengthen the structure of the organization we are creating; secondly, to politically support the organizations and their members in order to empower them in their struggle to improve the legal basis of the legislation of each of their countries, as well as to reinforce the collection of each institution concerning the rights of authors; thirdly, to empower emerging societies around the world and, on the other hand, to recognize the important issues for our community, such as the gender equity agenda”.

The proposal of new authorities for the next two years having been approved, the organization was made up as follows:

Management and Executive Council of AVACI

-President: Klemen Dvornik, audiovisual director and screenwriter(AIPA-Slovenia)

1° Vice-President: Yoon Jung Lee, audiovisual director (DGK-South Korea)

2° Vice-President: Miguel Ángel Diani, audiovisual screenwriter (President of Argentores-Argentina)

-Secretary General: Horacio Maldonado, audiovisual director and screenwriter (Secretary General of DAC-Argentina)

-Institutional Coordinator: Laza Razanajatovo, audiovisual director and screenwriter (President of APASER).

-Management Council: Anja Unger, audiovisual director and screenwriter (LA SCAM-France).

-Presidente del Comité Legal y Técnico: Gregor Stibernik, director gerente (AIPA-Eslovenia)

-Comité Legal y Técnico: Dominik Skoczek, director gerente (ZAPA-Polonia)

-Comité Legal y Técnico: Herve Rony, director general (LA SCAM-Francia)

-Comité Legal y Técnico: Adriana Saldarriaga, doctora en Derecho (DASC-Colombia)

Miembros del Board

-Danilo Serbedzija, director audiovisual, (Presidente de DHFR– Croacia)

-Alexandra Cardona Restrepo, guionista audiovisual (Presidenta de REDES-Colombia)

– Sylvio Back, director audiovisual (Secretario General de DBCA-Brazil)

– Sylvia Palma, guionista audiovisual (Consejo de Administración de GEDAR-Brazil).

– Anjum Rajabali, guionista audiovisual (Presidente de SRAI-India)

– Huseyn Mehdiyev, director y guionista audiovisual (Presidente de AzDG-Azerbaiyán)

– Teresa Saldarriaga, directora audiovisual (DASC-Colombia)

Comité de Legal y Técnica de AVACI:

-Doctor Germán Gutierrez (ARGENTORES-Argentina)

-Doctor Luis Mangiavillano (DAC-Argentina)

-Doctor Felipe Schuster (ATN-Chile)

-Cezary Piekarczyk (ZAPA-Polonia)

Miembros Observadores

-Antonio Onetti, guionista audiovisual (SGAE-España)

-Bill Anderson, director audiovisual (Directores-UK)

-Martijn Winkler, director audiovisual (DDG-The Netherlands)