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CARTOON CLUB is organized by UNASP-ACLI Rimini,
with the support of the Tourism Department and the Culture Department of the Town of Rimini,
the Province of Rimini, the Department of Emilia Romagna, ACLI of Emilia Romagna and ACLI Italia.
Cartoon Club is a member of the following associations:
ECFF (European Coordination of Film Festivals), ECFA (European Children Film Association),
CIFEJ Network (International Centre of Film for Children and Young People), Coordinamento Mostre Italiane,
Anonima Fumetti and ASIFA ITALIA.

ECFF
EUROPEAN COORDINATION OF FILM FESTIVALS
The European Coordination of Film Festival is composed of 170 festivals of different themes and size, all dedicated to promoting European cinema.
All member countries of the European Union are represented, as well as some other European countries. The Coordination develops common activities for its members through cooperation, aimed at promoting European Cinema, improving circulation and raising public awareness. Besides these common activities, the Coordination also encourages bilateral and multilateral projects among its members. The Coordination has created a code of ethics, which has been adopted by all its members, to encourage common professional practice. The Coordination is also an information centre and a place for festivals to meet.

European Coordination of Film Festival
64, rue Philippe Le Bon - B -1000 Bruxelles Belgique

CIFEJ
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF FILMS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
An international non-governmental organization of professionals dedicated to promoting excellence in the audio-visual media for young audiences.
CIFEJ believes in the power and potential of audio-visual media to enrich the lives of children and is dedicated to a media environment respectful of the dignity and rights of children and young people around the world. CIFEJ stimulates the development, production and distribution of high quality and culturally diverse children’s film, television, and new media. CIFEJ supports the media charter embedded in the United Nation Convention on the Right of the Child. CIFEJ was founded in 1955 under the auspices of UNESCO and UNICEF. Today, CIFEJ retains operational relations with UNESCO and consultative status with UNICEF. The CIFEJ secretariat has been based in Montreal, Canada since 1990. Official languages are French and English.
With 150 members in over 55 countries, CIFEJ is a network of producers, distributors, broadcasters, festivals, scriptwriters and filmmakers, media researchers, and specialized groups that work directly with the media and children.

ECFA
EUROPEAN CHILDREN’S FILM ASSOCIATION
ECFA is the organisation for all, who are interested in high quality films for children and young people: film makers, producers, promoters, distributors, exhibitors, TV-programmers, festival organizers and film educators. Audiovisual media in general and cinema in specific are a vehicle for artistic communication and for cultural transmission. The aim of ECFA is to bring the children in contact with the great machine called cinema. "We want to create a positive attitude towards European films for children - also in its economic and political aspects."
At the moment ECFA has 46 members, mostly companies and organisations, coming from 16 different countries. ECFA is convinced that European films for children and young people could not only succeed, but could also find a profitable audience. Children and young people are not only the future of our society, but also an important part of it here and now, with enormous emotional, cultural and of course material needs. Since its foundation in 1988 ECFA has organized meetings and events to promote and stimulate the development of European films for children and young people.