The European Event Videographers Association (EEVA)

Date of establishment: August, 12th, 2010. 

EEVA is an autonomous non-profit association owned by its members and managed by the board of elected Executive Members. Each member agrees to act in accordance with our Code of Practice, and to strive to maintain the highest levels of production competence and professionalism in their work.

EEVA has only 1000 members. The participants come from a wide range of locations around Europe. The organisation has also set up several regional branches.

With the Executive Committee being actively involved in professional event videography, it naturally follows that EEVA membership is both relevant and beneficial to professional event & wedding videographers. We are constantly looking for new benefits for our members as well as ways to improve the existing benefits. EEVA is keeping pace with the rapidly changing media industry, embracing new technologies for the needs of multitasking event video professionals.

We in EEVA are focused on:

  • Promoting professional event & wedding Videography as an effective business tool;
  • Promoting professional event & wedding Videography as an art form;
  • Making EEVA a reliable source of information for clients;
  • Training operators and video editors; organizing contests, workshops and seminars;
  • Developing and promoting unified standards of professional wedding video filming on the Russian market;
  • Copyright protection; increasing videographer's legal awareness;
  • Promoting Qualified Members of EEVA;
  • Attracting new members in Europe;
  • Organizing annual international and local contests for members of EEVA;
  • Publishing and distributing video collections based on the results of the contests;
  • Promoting the works of EEVA members on the Internet;
  • Organizing online social work aimed at raising client's awareness;
  • Providing legal support and counselling to wedding videographers and video editors;
  • Organizing regular professional workshops and seminars on state-of-the-art video equipment, filming technology and picture processing;
  • Providing assistance to beginning videographers and video editors in the implementation of their creative concepts;
  • Supporting video professionals;
  • Creating the venue and conditions for creative development and collaboration (online conferences, forums, the web site);
  • Regular conventions, exhibitions and workshops for EEVA members and other professionals who have not yet joined EEVA;
  • Maintaining relations with other creative associations, clubs and organizations both in Russia and the rest of the world;
  • Analyzing international practice, collaborating with wedding videographers organizations in other countries;
  • Promoting the creative work of talented wedding videographers among the general public;
  • Regular coverage of EEVA's performance in the media and on the web.

EEVA does not have any external financing that is why it can raise and use the funds both of its members and of outside organisations.

In the recent years EEVA has organized 29 professional events and invited the most outstanding and talented video professionals in the region, prospective colleagues  interested in mastering new technologies and techniques of wedding video filming. The members of the board, the most reputable videographers of the region, and the representatives of local businesses who viewed the participants of these events as their target customers attended those conventions. The rough plan of such meetings is published on the site of the event www.rffvv.ru

We in the EEVA seek to help our members advance their careers by increasing the members’ business acumen as well as broadening their creative skills. 

The EEVA's mission is to assist its members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; to promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history.

EEVA PHOTO-VIDEO FORUM is a major event for videographers and everyone involved in videography; it is a convention, a trade fair and an art exhibition. It provides a collaboration venue for professionals where the best videographers in the world can share their experience with the other participants. The expo gives everyone a chance to have a look at the latest technologies and products available to professional videographers. 

Contacts:

Dmitry Sedov
nova_studio (Skype)
http://facebook.com/EEVA2011