Visitor numbers to the AFSF website increased for the sixth year running, with the Australian film distributor information remaining the most popular and useful content on the site.
- The Federation was progressing toward being the largest such federation in Australia, with members now in every state except Western Australia.
- The Treasurer reported a significant one-off payment to Code Red Solutions for the invoicing, membership database and email software upgrade delivered over the preceding couple of years.
- The Committee had completed a project linking the AFSF website to every consenting member society’s own website, to improve their SEO.
- The Executive agreed to review which societies had given permission to be publicised, to ensure all relevant links (websites, Facebook pages) were live.
- Several organisations had asked for member contact details to send marketing emails — these requests were declined as conflicting with the Federation’s Privacy Policy, and the meeting agreed no such details would be passed to third parties.
Guest Speaker
Dan O’Malley, Theatrical and Marketing Manager at Hi Gloss Entertainment, spoke on a distributor’s perspective of film societies, how distributors and societies can improve communication and visibility together, and the history of Hi Gloss Entertainment.