11
2010
The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) was launched on 11th May. Journalists, representatives from the SAA member collecting societies and a variety of Brussels-based organisations attended the event.
Members of the SAA Board of Patrons spoke at the launch event. Marco Tullio Giordana, writer and director of The Best of Youth, recipient of the prestigious Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival and Roger Michell, director of Notting Hill, spoke about his own experience as a director of a highly successful film. Luigi Berlinguer, Vice-Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs warmly welcomed the establishment of the new organisation.