Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures and AICWA being meticulous about the procedures has made headway as a reliable artist card association that helps safeguard your rights and work. Alertness is the major component in the glamour industry as there are swindlers trying to lure with work and money surety.
For every person looking forward to enter Cine Industry or struggling hard to get a chance needs to have two essentials: a stunning portfolio and an artist card or commonly known as Bollywood Artist Card.
No matter who, from a daily wage earner or laborer or junior artist to a breathtaking film actor, whatever the job be, in Cine Industry you need to have a legal artist card for safeguarding your security hence, AICWA is no less than a bonanza.
Primarily, artist card is needed as it offers a protection to an artist’s main needs like daily wages, working hours, provident funds, basic rights, etc. AICWA member can sue to the union if one is a registered junior artist with a Bollywood artist card in case the casting director demands for overtime without any overtime pay or in case of any unwanted situation.
When a large production house requires a huge number of junior artists, the authentic organizations produce these cards and AICWA being a reliable artist organization associated with Government of Maharashtra caters to the needs of its members and handles grievance at its best.
Benefits of Joining AICWA
AICWA looks after and tries to provide the welfare for the needy and elderly AICWA members in form of pension, medical aid and scholarship for their children. AICWA not only takes care of its members but their family as well.
Authorized legal artist ID card that a member can present as work ID anywhere in India.
Free workshops for members.
To guide/suggest in providing work and platform according to the profile.
Free of cost enquiry and support related to media/industry.
Safeguard work by registering with AICWA.
Try providing private panel for film audition details, film tenders, film awards or exhibition film financer free of cost.
AICWA can investigate the matter regarding nonpaying in accordance with the work.
Networking opportunities with like-minded people and develop cooperative alliances.
Provides time to time news/interview article folio coverage in Bollywood dreams magazine absolutely free.
Will provide web page with your full details at AICWA website free of cost.
A vast difference between reel and real life. Reel is what an actor portrays on screen and real is what life makes happen.
In cinema there are two types of films: first those that employ the resources of the theater and use the camera to reproduce and second the ones that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”.
In the whole process of catering the demands of the members the major responsibility lies in maintain harmony among its members.