SFV (Sveriges Film- och Videoforbund)
submits the following proposals to the General Assembly:

1) International Association of Amateur Film & Video Festivals (IAAFVF)

SFV proposes that UNICA takes care of the responsibility of the former IAAFVF.
Today international festivals can receive a patronage by UNICA.
However, some sort of co­operation between the festivals is not initiated by UNICA.
IAAFVF used to have draft standard competition regulations; they exchanged addresses of award winning participants. They also published a newsletter about twice a year. UNICA is the world organisation for amateurfilmmakers.
It would be an obligation for UNICA to promote the various international amateurfilmfestivals and assist them in their work.
This would also benefit UNICA, as its name would be known also in countries which sofar are not members of UNICA.

2) Japan

SFV proposes that the Committee exerts itself in getting a Japanese representation in UNICA. We guess, that Japan is the biggest country in the aspect of making amateurfilms. Since the middle of the 80's no Japanese film has been shown in the UNICA festival (with the exception of the World Minute Movie Cup). In Tokyo each year an international video contest is organised. They use to get more than 1.000 (one thousand) Japanese entries ! (In 1995, by the way, the festival was won by the Czech "Well-fed Bulldozer's Driver" that also took part in the UNICA festival.)
A Japanese membership would probably also motivate a lot of people from Japan to visit the UNICA festivals.