Lisbon Theatre and Film School

The Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ( ESTC ) is the Theatre and Film School of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. It is the successor of the National Conservatory ( Conservatorio Nacional). The ESTC is divided into the departments of theater ( Departamento de Teatro ) and film ( Departamento de Cinema ).

History

The ESCT goes back to the National Conservatory, which in turn fell to the decision of 1836, with the Almeida Garrett was tasked with the establishment of a national theater and a corresponding Theatre School. In addition to the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II as the Conservatorio Geral de Arte Dramatica was created ( " General Conservatory of Theatre Arts" ), consisting of the theater and lecture school Escola Dramatica e de Declamação, the music school Escola de Música, and the dance school Escola de Dança, Mimica e ginástica especial. The existing since 1835 Conservatorio de Música music school of the Casa Pia was thereby incorporated into the Escola de Música.

As part of a reform of the name in Real Conservatorio de Lisboa ( " Royal Conservatory of Lisbon" ) was changed while its Escola de Dramatica e Declamação henceforth called Escola de Arte de representar ( "school of art performer "). With the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910 renamed the Conservatorio Nacional has been made. 1914 received the Escola de Arte de representar administrative autonomy.

1971 independent film course was set up, which ( " first training school for film professionals " ) received in 1973 with the Escola de Piloto para a Formação Profissionais de Cinema own school at the National Conservatory. This is equally committed to the technical and the creative side of cinema.

In 1983, the creation of a film and theater school was decided. An apparatus Commission began working to get out of Piloto para a Escola de Formação Profissionais de Cinema the ESTC - Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (literally " School of Theatre and Film" ) to make. In 1985, the newly ESTC, which was previously reported to the Directorate- Geral do Ensino Superior ministerial ( " Directorate General of Higher Education " ), the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon ( IPL) was incorporated. Until the adoption of its complete statutes in the Official Gazette ( Diário da República ) on 18 January 1995, the ESTC remained under the formal management of the facility Commission.

1998 pulled the ESTC from their nor of Almeida Garrett decorated rooms in the former Convento dos Caetanos ( in the municipality of Misericordia, in downtown Lisbon ), in the new building in Amadora. There, in addition to the wide variety of training rooms and library, studios, meeting and screening rooms, and the cafeteria are housed.

International integrations

The ESTC is very much internationally oriented, with involvement in the UNESCO establishment of the International Theatre Institute ( ITI or IIT) and the UNESCO Chair. Also in the Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision ( CILECT ) and his GEECT ( Groupement Européen des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision ) it is integrated, as in the ELIA (European League of Institutes of Arts).

The ESTC takes part in international exchange programs such as Socrates and Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci Ausstauschprojekt. To this end, it has taken bi -lateral exchange agreements with several Latin American universities, in Brazil, to Argentina and Mexico.

Activities

The ESTC has written their tasks in five points:

• Train
• Research
• Experimentation
• To undertake their own projects and to participate in other projects
• Social services

The ESTC has joined the Bologna Process and offers Bachelor 's and Master's degree programs.

The Research of the ESTC is working with the University of the Algarve together, also it maintains local educational and cultural projects in the neighboring communities.

The works that are developing the students in the subject areas are shown and discussed in the ESTC, but also in public spaces, including theaters, museums and the Cinemateca Portuguesa, the public.