Colombian Congresswoman Clara Rojas has officially received the Writers & Directors Worldwide Honour Prize, a new award that celebrates the exceptional contributions made by non-authors in the fight to promote and protect audiovisual creators rights. Representative Dr Clara Rojas has ...
In a letter to the Croatian prime minister, Writers and Directors Worldwide has formally added its voice to those calling for an end to government influence in the country’s filmmaking industry.
During the council’s executive committee meeting in ...
Colombian screenwriters and directors are one step closer to having their rights properly recognised today after the “Pepe Sánchez Act” passed its penultimate debate in the First Commission of the Senate of the Republic of Colombia. There now remains ...
Writers & Directors Worldwide dedicated its most recent executive committee (ExCo) meeting as an opportunity to add its support to the We’ve Had Enough campaign launched by Croatian audiovisual authors in response to political interference in film funding. The ...
Council president and screenwriter Yves Nilly also joins two expert panels at the FESPACO Film Festival to share international perspectives on the creators’ right to remuneration.
The universal adoption of a remuneration right for audiovisual creators is critically ...
Nominations for the 2017 Academy Awards were released yesterday to honour the best films of last year. The ceremony takes place in Hollywood, California on 26 February and we congratulate all the authors, screenwriters and filmmakers that have made it through to ...
The creative community was deeply saddened yesterday to hear of the passing of Colombian director, scriptwriter and producer, Pepe Sánchez who died in his home town of Bogota at age 82.
His 60-year career began as an announcer on Colombian ...
This is an English translation of an article originally published by the China Film Directors’ Guild on 29 November 2016.
Editor's Note: Jia Zhang-ke, CISAC Vice President, stressed that the third draft of the Copyright Law had recognised screenwriters and directors as ...
The president of Writers & Directors Worldwide, Yves Nilly, has written an article for the French daily financial newspaper Les Echos about the importance of equitable authors' remuneration. Read the article, translated from French, below.
It is Time to Stop ...
The Portuguese authors society SPAutores has been appointed an Honorary Member of the Order of Freedom by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Mr. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The president of the society, Writers & Directors Worldwide executive committee member ...
On 28 November, Writers and Directors Worldwide will take part in a special event focused on creators and creativity held in Beijing, China.
Hosted by CISAC and the China IP Law Association, the “World Creators Forum” will gather creators from around ...
The annual Writers & Directors Worldwide congress was held in Rio de Janeiro this year, with the support of CISAC and a number of host societies and sponsoring partners including ABRAMUS, ADAL, ARGENTORES, DAC, DBCA, GEDAR and the Order of ...
