WAMHF

WAMHF

World Association of Medical and Health Films

Asociacion Mundial del Cine Médico y de la Salud

Association Mondiale du Cinéma Médical et de Santé

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History

The WAMHF was founded in 1990 in Spain, on the occasion of the 6th International Medical and Health Film (Videomed) of

Badajoz.

Objectives

- To promote medical and health audiovisual media (by helping, e.g. create new medical film festivals).

- To promote the circulation and distribution of medical and health audiovisuel productions throughout the world.

- To develop an approved index of all medical films so as to facilitate and stimulate exchanges among the producers of audiovisual

health media.

- To develop an international data bank of medical and health films, available to all the members of the Association from

anywhere in the world.

- To facilitate the cooperation among existing festivals by encouraging the organizers to compare their experiences.

- To defend and harmonize copyright laws in the medical and health fields.

Members

At present the members are the Medical and Health Films Festvals from Belgium, France, Spain, Argentina & the United States;

Institutions active in the Medical and Health Domain; medicine doctors, film-makers and producers, etc.

WAMHF Board

President Andrès Bas, Videomed Badajoz, Spain

Vice President              Irma Attme de Ceballos, Consejo de Médicos de la Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina

Secretary General         Jaap Klein, Vinkeveen, The Netherlands

Treasurer                      Pierre Jamart, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Belgium

Members                      Alessandro Griffini, ENEA Rome, Italy

David Cleverly, St George's Hospital Medical School London, United Kingdom