Universidad del Cine Information

Its primary mission is to provide the highest academic and technological level in the areas of film, video, visual arts, visual communication and also teacher training in each of these Disciplines within a global humanistic training framework within which Art, literature, universal culture and knowledge of other languages are as important as the specific technical knowledge. In a few words, it is a meeting point for young people with an audiovisual vocation. At the same time, a field of learning and research, a film production center of feature and short films. In addition to its educational work, Universidad del Cine promotes the permanent and stable relationship of its students with directors, scriptwriters, actors, technicians, critics and film analysts, national and foreign. Some of the personalities of the international film industry that visited the University: Barry Purves, BIll Plympton, Adrien Merigeau, Michel Ocelot, Jean-Claude Carriere, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Ana Torrent, Marcello Mastroianni, Gonzalo Suárez, Margarethe Von Trotta, Werner Herzog, Vittorio Storaro, Liv Ullmann, Spike Lee, Abel Ferrara, Fernando Birri, Patricio Guzman, Jean-Michel Frodon, Hugo Santiago, Chantal Akerman, Agnès Godard, Florian Koerner, Angela Shanelec, Laurent Cantet, Juan José Campanella and Harun Farocki, among others. Universidad del Cine also makes possible the concurrence of its teachers and students to international film festivals and has agreements of reciprocal cooperation with foreign educational institutions and universities in order to increase the exchange and deepen educational actions in a field in which the international Is a prime characteristic. Universidad del Cine hierarchized cinema education with its policy of film promotion that allowed the production of more than 100 feature films.