The Film School of the Universidad de las Artes offers a program that aims to train high-level professionals in the field of film and audiovisual arts, with extensive knowledge of the techniques, trades, history, languages, aesthetics and the current enclaves of reflection on the creation, industry and economy of film and the audiovisual. To this end, the program proposes the combination of research, criticism, production, practice and creation activities, with an emphasis on contemporary forms and narratives, adopting an approach attentive to the particularities and needs of the local context, to intercultural dialogues and to the production and reflection developed in territories of the South.

Graduate profile

Graduates of this program will become familiar with the history of world cinema and the place of Ecuadorian cinema in it, creatively applying different methods of film analysis and developing activities of direction, production, script writing, sound design, art direction, lighting and production design in cinematographic and audiovisual productions in various formats, genres and fields. He/she will also be able to solve fundamental problems of cinematographic research, with emphasis on contemporary approaches to filmmaking and audiovisual expressions.

The Faculty Team

The professors of the Film School are professionals with recognized academic and artistic careers, specialized in the proposed core fields of the program (theory and criticism, creative production, writing, research and expanded field). It is a community of filmmakers who approach critical writing; critics who explore visual and audiovisual narratives; researchers who construct and deconstruct from the inter and transdisciplinary.

Itineraries

• FILMMAKING
• FILM MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION
• FILM THEORY AND EXPERIMENTATION