MEMBERSHIP & PARTICIPATION
Accreditation, membership and partnership are three different instruments. Accreditation never requires membership; membership never confers accreditation. None of them is for sale.
AI film festivals
Open for applications
Independent assessment of a festival's governance, rules, jury integrity, creator-rights safeguards and disclosure practice against the published standard. Accreditation is a conformity decision about an edition and an operator — it is not a prize and it does not rank artistic quality.
Producers' associations
Open for applications — pilot
National and regional associations of AI film producers participate in federation governance through recognition. Recognition is a governance relationship: it does not certify the association's members and may not be presented as accreditation.
Production organisations
Open for applications — pilot
Assessment of an organisation's production controls: rights and consent management, provenance and disclosure, human oversight, security and correction. A pilot: decisions follow the published assessment rules, and pilot findings feed the standard's first formal edition.
Individual producers
Planned
A personal qualification covering competence, verified track record, ethics and continuing professional development. Distinct from organisational certification by design: individuals and organisations are never assessed under one instrument.
Submit an expression of interestIndependent assessment bodies
Candidate scheme — in preparation
Recognition of bodies competent to carry out reviews and audits for federation schemes, with independence, impartiality and conflict-of-interest controls. Recognition never transfers the final accreditation decision.
Submit an expression of interestTechnology and tool platforms
Expressions of interest welcome
Alignment of platforms and tools with AIFD disclosure interfaces — provenance, identifiers, status endpoints and machine-readable records. A technical partnership, not an accreditation: platforms are never certified by the body whose standards they implement.
Submit an expression of interestWrite to public@ifaifpa.org with the subject line EOI — [pathway] — [organisation name], stating your legal name and jurisdiction, a contact person, the pathway you are interested in, and a short description of your activity. The secretariat acknowledges receipt, records the interest, and notifies you when the relevant scheme opens for public consultation or application.
An expression of interest creates no membership, accreditation, recognition or partnership, and confers no right to use any federation mark. When schemes open, the same rules apply to every applicant: published criteria, independent review, two-person decisions, a public register, and an appeal window. Fees never buy outcomes, and refusal rates are published.
