National gathering of the actors of the cultural diffusion and artistic Education

To assert a public policy of cinematographic and audio-visual cultural activity together and to fight together the disengagement of the State in this field,

We give appointment to the people, structures, trade-union organizations, professional and associative who feel concerned or interdependent with

National gathering of the actors of the cultural diffusion and artistic Education

Friday January 11, 2008 with 10:30
in PARIS with the Cinema Saint-Andre-of-Arts II, big room with 12, rue Gît- the-Heart
75006 - Paris (St-Michel Subway, left Place Saint-Andre-of-Arts)

We who create, manufacture, produce, diffuse, accompany by the films everywhere in France, which bring the cinema in the villages, the districts, the schools, in rooms and also in the street, the hospitals or the prisons, which organize festivals, workshops, meetings between the professionals and the general public,
We who sensitize and form the public ones today and of tomorrow,
We who support a cinema of quality, independence and creation, within the framework of a national policy concerted and durable founded on the interest
general, within the framework of the recognition by OMC of the principle of the cultural exception and for the cultural diversity supported by UNESCO,
let us invite the State solemnly to reaffirm politically and financially, the place of the cinema and the audio-visual one in the field of Art and the Culture, and to maintain the cultural policy original, which is our collective invention and which remains our project.

Signatories of the Call to mobilization “Cinema and Audio-visual, towards the dismantling of cultural diversity in France?”
(can be consulted and signed on Internet site www.enfants-de-cinema.com)

Enclosures: Invitation and Petition