Confederation of Unions of Cinematographers of the CIS and Baltic States

The Azerbaijan Union of Film-makers is a member of the Confederation of Unions of Cinematographers of the CIS and Baltic States.

The International Union of Public Associations called the Confederation of Unions of Cinematographers (CUC) was established in 1991 and is the legal successor of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. The main goals behind creating the CUC were to maintain cooperation and provide mutual assistance to the unions of cinematographers of the independent countries of the CIS, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and to preserve a common cultural background in post-Soviet republics.

The CUC is the organizer of the International Film Awards “East-West. Golden Arch”, the National Film Forum and the International Film School.

The chairman of the Confederation of Unions of Cinematographers of the CIS and Baltic countries is Rustam Ibrahimbayov – film and theater playwright, director, writer, secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Jewish Film Festival in Moscow, member of the European Film Academy “Felix”, American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, Russian Academy of Cinema Sciences “Nika”. Rustam Ibrahimbayov is the chairman of the Azerbaijan Union of Cinematographers.

Konstantin Shcherbakov, an art critic, journalist and editor, is the deputy chairman of the Confederation of Unions of Cinematographers of the CIS and Baltic countries.