The UFVA members are image-makers and artists, teachers and students, archivists and distributors, college departments, libraries, and manufacturers.
[1] UFVA holds an annual conference and publishes the Journal of Film and Video, a periodical featuring articles on film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics.
UFVA was founded in 1947 as the University Film Producers Association.
UFVA serves as the professional organization for academics producing and studying film and video, and provides publication and peer review opportunities to academics who produce film and video based creative scholarship.
Attendees screen films, present papers and panels, mount new media exhibits, and stage readings of un-produced screenplays.