Indian Film & Television Directors' Association

{{short description|Trade union in India}}

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{{Infobox union

|name =Indian Film & Television Directors' Association

|image =

|location_country=India

|affiliation =FWICE

|members =3872 (as of 2012)

|founded ={{Start date and age|1960}}

|headquarters =8, 9 & 10, Crescent Tower, New Link Road

Andheri West, Mumbai - 400053

|key_people =Ashoke Pandit, President

|website ={{url|www.directorsiftda.com}}

|footnotes =

}}

The Indian Film & Television Directors' Association (IFTDA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in India. It was founded as the Indian Film Directors' Association (IFDA) in 1960,{{cite book |last1=Athique |first1=Adrian |last2=Parthasarathi |first2=Vibodh |last3=Srinivas |first3=S.V. |title=The Indian Media Economy |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0199091782 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYFZDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Indian+Film+and+television+Directors%27+Association%22&pg=PT413 |via=GoogleBooks |accessdate=30 October 2019}} before adopting today's name in 2007 and welcoming television directors into the guild.{{cite web |last=Chanana |first=Opender |title=The missing 3 in Bollywood |url=https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/33878 |date=2011 |publisher=UNI Global Union |type=pdf |accessdate=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030195249/https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/33878 |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live }} Ashoke Pandit is the current president,{{cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/no-bollywood-filmmaker-or-music-company-will-work-with-pakistani-artistes-ashoke-pandit-1458257-2019-02-17 |title=No Bollywood filmmaker or music company will work with Pakistani artistes: Ashoke Pandit |website=India Today |date=17 February 2019 |accessdate=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030192720/https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/no-bollywood-filmmaker-or-music-company-will-work-with-pakistani-artistes-ashoke-pandit-1458257-2019-02-17 |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live }} a role that has been held in the past by K.A. Abbas, Madhusudan, Basu Bhattacharya, Ramesh Saigal, Mahesh Kaul, and Mohan Segal.

Before IFDA was founded, it was known as the Assistant Directors' Association, and the decision to begin including directors led to its founding in 1960.

In 1969 IFDA began taking a stance against imports of foreign films, supporting a tax that would encourage films with smaller budgets and higher quality. In 1978, IFDA campaigned for more movie theatres to be built, working with state governments and National Film Development Corporation of India to open 100 new theatres.

IFTDA faced an identity crisis in 2010 when around 500 members quit in protest due to "lack of vision".{{cite web |last=Ganguly |first=Prithwish |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-film-directors-hit-after-members-quit-iftda-1354989 |title=Film directors hit after members quit IFTDA |website=Daily News and Analysis |date=4 March 2010 |accessdate=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030193753/https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-film-directors-hit-after-members-quit-iftda-1354989 |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live }} In February 2019, IFTDA called for a hiring ban on all Pakistan artists working in Bollywood in response to the 2019 Pulwama attack and the subsequent remarks from Navjot Singh Sidhu.{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/iftda-slams-navjot-singh-sidhu-for-his-comments-on-pulwama-terror-attack/articleshow/68100602.cms |title=IFTDA slams Navjot Singh Sidhu for his comments on Pulwama terror attack |website=The Times of India |date=22 February 2019 |accessdate=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030194823/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/iftda-slams-navjot-singh-sidhu-for-his-comments-on-pulwama-terror-attack/articleshow/68100602.cms |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live }}