New chain table Film festivals launched

On February 2, the new chain table Film Festivals was launched. The intention is to quickly create concrete fair pay practice tools for this category of organizations. Starting with a salary structure and a regulation for fringe benefits including a guideline for safe and healthy working. It also involves determining a zzp premium rate.

Funding of film festivals

There are about 115 film festivals in our country. Four of them are subsidized on a multi-year basis by OCW. The Film Fund provides two (by 2025, seven) multi-year and ten project grants. The other film festivals depend on municipalities, provinces and others for their finances. Seven larger film festivals are considered fair pay initiators. Together they have engaged Bureau Berenschot. A benchmark with a number of collective bargaining agreements was done in 2023, considering functions and remuneration. The employment conditions policy was also examined. The whole was completed with an opinion, particularly on salaries, workload reduction and development opportunities.

Composition of the chain table

The chain table will now start working on the elaboration of Bureau Berenschot’s advisory report. Representatives of Cinekid, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam/IDFA, Nederlands Film Festival/NFF and Kaboom Animation Festival are connected. Partly at the suggestion of the Creative Coalition, workers from other film festivals are also affiliated. The Kunstenbond also participates. Doreen Boonekamp is chairman: relevant in connection with the coordination with the chain table Film/AV, of which she is also chairman.