63 countries vote CINTAA representing India to The
International Federation of Actors Executive Committee!
The pandemic has put a full stop to the Indian
entertainment industry that had been at an unprecedented pace otherwise. CINTAA
has been in the forefront, aiding and standing up for actor rights even through
pandemic.
Now, CINTAA makes global news again with 63
countries voting the Indian actors’ body to The International Federation of
Actors (FIA) Executive Committee!
For the uninitiated, The International Federation
of Actors (FIA) is a global federation of performers’ trade unions, guilds and
professional associations. Founded in 1952, it represents several hundreds of
thousands of performers with some 90 member organisations in more than 60
countries around the world. FIA’s main purpose is to voice the professional
interests of actors (in film, television, radio, theatre and live performance),
broadcast professionals, dancers, singers, variety and circus artists and
others.
CINTAA has always stood up for the well-being of
its members. In 2016, Senior Joint
Secretary & Chairperson -- Outreach Committee, CINTAA, Amit Behl, at the
FIA meeting in Brazil, was involved in two very important motions. CINTAA's
views and motions since then have always been respected and accepted by FIA and
the same goes for this Congress as well.
Now, half a decade since its affiliation to FIA,
for the first time in the history of the International Federation of Actors,
CINTAA, representing India, has been elected to the executive committee of FIA.
With over 150 members, representing 81 countries and with 63 countries
exercising voting rights, this marks a landmark step for the Indian actor
fraternity, especially since CINTAA has been fighting for the need for performer
rights to be heard for the actors in the subcontinent.
CINTAA, with the belief that “The entertainment
industry is a global industry with global issues. The response should also be
global,” has always been lauded for its progressive thought at the congress.
“There is a huge diaspora of second generation,
Asian, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi actors working in the United States of
America, in East Africa, in South Africa, in Fiji, in the Caribbean islands, in
the UK, in Australia, in New Zealand, in fact, so many other countries, and
apart from Japan, which has primarily got more of animated content, since we
have so much of content not only in Hindi, but other regional languages as
well, with original as well as dubbed and subtitled content. And now it's being
streamed across all the streaming platforms and etc. So the need for India to
be part of the executive was expressed by the FIA presidium, and we were almost
unanimously elected,” elaborates Amit Behl.
More power to CINTAA!
