When it comes to artistic vision, FAVA looks to its practicing members for direction to articulate and establish the co-op’s creative goals and directions. It is our mission to create the resources and opportunities our members need to realize those visions.

Having said that, FAVA has always striven to balance the many and shifting needs of our membership while still providing a coherent vision behind which the entire community can unite. This is not always easy.

Edmonton has only one media arts centre and we welcome practitioners from all areas and disciplines of the media arts: film, video, multimedia, animation, and installation artists among them.

1. To benefit the public and contribute to the cultural opportunities available to all members of the community through the presentation of independent Canadian film, video, and media arts;

2. To promote an appreciation for the aesthetic value of artistic works by Canadian artists in the areas of film, video, and media arts;

3. To educate, train, and develop skills in film, video, and media arts in its members and wider community;

4. To promote and assist in the production of Canadian independent film, video, and media arts;

5. To develop and sustain a media distribution system for Alberta media artists and the wider national community;

6. To develop and sustain a media arts library of Alberta media art, and to create and maintain archival partnerships to permanently collect these works;

7. To do all other ancillary to the above-noted objects including to give grants, lease lands, sell, manage, lease, mortgage, dispose of and otherwise provide and deal in and with equipment and other various objects and to raise money by a variety of methods including casinos, exhibitions and direct solicitation.

• acquiring and maintaining a large pool of equipment for the creation, screening, and transmission of media art, at discounted rates for independent artistic endeavors;
• developing our members as artists and crafts people through classes, workshops, networking, and mentorship opportunities;
• disseminating our members’ work through our two annual media arts festivals – FAVA FEST and the Gotta Minute Film Festival;
• distributing media art through our online arts broadcast and distribution initiative FAVA TV;
• communicating with our members and the general public through our website at www.fava.ca, our e-bulletin, Facebook, and Twitter
• supporting member projects directly, with modest cash, equipment and services grants;
• commissioning new work;
• developing and maintaining internal library resources to collect the works of our membership and the greater Alberta media arts community through FAVA TV and FilmReel.