The Association of Culture and Education through Audiovisual (ACEA) was founded in 2007 by the late producer Nouzha Drissi with the aim of cultivating a culture of documentary cinema in Morocco. The association sought to unite citizens, filmgoers, professionals, and students, introducing them to cinematic storytelling rooted in reality.

Since 2008, ACEA has organized the Agadir International Documentary Film Festival (FIDADOC), Morocco’s first cinema event dedicated exclusively to creative documentaries. The festival includes an International Feature Film Competition, an African Short Film Competition, special screenings, thematic screenings for children and students in Agadir, and an itinerant projection program called TRIQ CINIMA (The Road of Cinema), which moves throughout Agadir and the Souss-Massa region.

In 2019, as part of UNESCO’s MEDFILM program, ACEA launched Sisters in Film, a personal development and empowerment program targeting emerging women directors from Arab countries. This program led to the creation of Rawiyat, a professional solidarity network for women filmmakers across the Middle East and North Africa. 

FIDADOC is also a founding member of the AFRICA REAL COLLECTIVE (ARC), an alliance of documentary cinema operators, coordinated by the pan-African Documentary Africa (DocA) fund based in Nairobi.