FilmEU

FilmEU brings together four European Higher Education Institutions:

• Institute of Art Design and Technology Dún Laoghaire Dublin / Ireland
• ULHT Lusófona University Lisbon / Portugal
• Baltic Film and Media Arts School / Tallinn
• LUCA School of Arts Brussels / Belgium

FilmEU Talks - Experts on Air/ Masterclass with awards winning Portuguese director, João Canijo

Etiketa meeting in Barcelona

C-Accelerate partners met at Aalto University

Etiketa Workshop in Barcelona - First Outcomes and Future Directions

FilmEU Summit 2023 - LUCA School of Arts (Genk, Belgium)

€12.8 Million Funding for FilmEU European University Alliance

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology is delighted to announce the official results of the 2023 Erasmus+ call to support the European Universities.

FilmEU, the European University dedicated to the cultural and creative industries, is thrilled to announce the allocation of €12.8 million in funding from the European Commission. This significant investment solidifies the European Union’s dedicated support for the FilmEU Alliance, marking a pivotal moment in the advancement of arts and culture education across Europe.

Responding to the call by the European Commission to deepen, expand, and intensify existing cooperation, the FilmEU Alliance is delighted to welcome four new partners, thereby expanding from its original consortium of four institutions to a formidable group of eight leading Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across Europe. The Alliance, led by Lusófona University from Portugal, includes original consortium members Luca School of Arts in Belgium, IADT – Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology in Ireland and TLU – Tallinn University, in Estonia and welcomes new members VŠMU – Academy of Performing Arts in Slovakia, LMTA – The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, VIA University College in Denmark, and NATFA (National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts) – “Krustyo Sarafov” in Bulgaria. This enhanced partnership will consolidate the diverse expertise and disciplines represented within the cultural and creative industries, further strengthening Europe’s position as a global leader in education, research, and innovation in cultural and creative industries domains.

FilmEU is an extraordinary initiative unlike any other in the field of arts and culture. It unites a consortium of four institutions that have now grown to eight partners. This European Alliance for Film and Media Arts will revolutionise higher education in the sector by fostering collaboration, innovation, and the exchange of ideas in the screen arts. With the backing of Erasmus and the European Universities program, FilmEU is bridging institutions and countries, fostering a metamorphosis of the tertiary sector throughout the member states.

In its initial phase, FilmEU achieved remarkable milestones. Now, with the infusion of €12.8 million, the alliance is poised to create a lasting impact. Over the next decade, FilmEU envisions building a significant educational framework that will shape the landscape of screen arts in Europe and beyond. This initiative will have far-reaching impacts, not only within the partner institutions but also across the cultural and creative sectors, influencing the societal discourse on sustainability, inclusion, climate, research mobility, innovation, and digital transformation.

The core discipline of Film and Media, working alongside a diverse range of subject areas found throughout the participating Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), will benefit immensely from the programmatic approach of FilmEU. It will empower each partner to transcend their individual strengths, permeating external engagement and internal structures. FilmEU is not only shaping its own future but also preparing each member institution for the evolving national and European Higher Education sector. Much like the relationship between the EU itself and nation-states, the EU Universities will coexist harmoniously with home institutions, creating a mutually beneficial environment for all stakeholders.

Film, as an integral part of our cultural milieu, serves as a powerful medium for sharing ideas, emotions, and knowledge. With generous funding from the European Commission, FilmEU ensures that Europe can not only tell its own stories but also positions the creative industries at the forefront of economic and social prosperity. Moreover, FilmEU pushes the boundaries of research, innovation, and enterprise, leading the way in the age of imagination and fostering a virtuous society and economy.

FilmEU+ will build upon the success and achievements of the Alliance’s previous efforts, exploring innovative models for sustainable cooperation between the participating HEIs. By consolidating complementary programs in filmic arts and related fields, FilmEU+ aims to elevate Europe’s profile as a cutting-edge provider of education, research, and innovation in the cultural and creative industries.

FilmEU+ exemplifies the collaborative spirit of like-minded institutions with diverse cultural backgrounds. Embracing different approaches and cultures, the Alliance ensures that all voices are cherished and heard, particularly in the context of emerging technologies. By celebrating diversity, FilmEU+ offers an authentic and unique educational experience, promoting a broad spectrum of storytelling that transcends cultural boundaries.

With the European Commission’s significant investment, the FilmEU European University Alliance is poised to shape the future of arts and culture education, foster innovation, and collaboration, and create a lasting impact across Europe’s creative landscape.

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2nd FilmEU_RIT Summit

Between 31st May and 2nd June, our partners, Lusófona University (Portugal), hosted the 2nd FilmEU_RIT Summit. It was an opportunity for the FilmEu_RIT researchers to meet in person again, present their pilot projects and discuss the ongoing work. Three days were full of highlights, from the presentation of the artistic research being conducted by the transnational teams of the Alliance, to the master classes conducted by Catherine David, Teemu Maki and Sara Driver, who presented her film “Sleepwalk”.

On the second day of the Summit, the pilot teams presented the ongoing work. It was the first time, the FilmEU team saw some outputs. We started with Pilot 1 – The European Archive of Short Animation, led by IADt researchers. This project will produce a detailed state-of-the-art report identifying and recording relevant sources of information on the production and exhibition of short animated films, in small European countries. Another project with the participation of IADT researchers was Expanded Memories – Pilot 3.1 that had an interactive presentation. The project aims to experiment with hybrid forms of analogue-digital (animation) film to create objects of tertiary memory.

The Doctoral Summer Seminar had a full day dedicated to the PhD candidates and their presentations. Eight PhD candidates from the four institutions presented the ongoing research and received feedback from the specialists. The other seven students had the opportunity to present their research in a public poster session.

The Summit ended with the round table “From RIT to FilmEU+: FuturePerspectives around Research” with Manuel José Damásio, Daithí Mac Síthigh, Teet Teinemaa and Lies Van de Vijver.

The sessions with Catherine David, Teemu Maki and Sara Driver are available on the FilmEU Youtube channel.

ETIKETA - 2nd WORKSHOP - The Digital Format for the EU Label

Last week, the Etiketa partners, stakeholders and a group of joint degree students participated in a hybrid Etikéta Focus Group on Future Models for European Degrees.

We gathered to discuss the relevance of a future degree label, the proposed criteria and the ongoing mapping of the existing and future degree labels.

FOCI (Future-proof Criteria for Innovative European Education) also introduced its workflow and project. The Etikéta project is all about collaboration with and learning from external partners.

FilmEU is hiring!

Crescine launched in Cannes 2023

May 22nd, at Marche du Film, Palais des Festivals, Main Stage (Riviera) & Online, Crescine, an ambitious three-year initiative backed by Horizon Europe to reshape the European film and audiovisual industry landscape was launched.

Manuel Damasio, Head of Film school, Lusofona, Indrek Ibrus, Professor of Media Innovatin, Tallin Universtiy, Jakob Isak Nielsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus Universitet, Ti Raats, Associate Professor /Lead Resercher, IMEC-SMIT-VUBVrije Univeriteit Brussel, Jaka Primorac, IRMO Croatia, Vejune Zemaityte, Tallinn University presented the project.

Crescine’s primary goal is to empower and transform the film industry in small markets in European countries. The focus territories are Estonia, Lithuania, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium (Flanders), Croatia, and Portugal.

Crescine is achieving this by launching the State of European Film platform. This unparalleled data insight tool offers comprehensive, actionable data, insights, and recommendations to invigorate the audiovisual ecosystem.

 

FilmEU Talks - Experts on Air + The Apotheke Painting Studio - Between Art and Teaching

FilmEU Talks – Experts on Air + The Apotheke Painting Studio – Between Art and Teaching.

The next FilmEU Talks – Experts On Air will be hosted by Lusófona University (Portugal) in partnership with Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (Brasil). The event will take place on the 25th of May at 16h (Portugal time) at Cinema Fernando Lopes and via Zoom.

The members of the Apotheke Painting Studio Group will present their main project and side projects such as International Cooperation currently held at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. As the theoretical-methodological principle of Apotheke Studio is Art as Experience, individual and collective artistic projects of the group members will also be discussed. In addition, the panorama to be discussed demonstrates the importance of the union between teaching, research and university extension, roles of the Public University in Brazil, with specificity in the South Region.

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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Diversity in Film & Media”

SAVE THE DATE! On May 24 the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Diversity in Film & Media” created through the future.film.education research project will be launched.

Within a FilmEU Talk, representatives from all three participating institutions will meet in a round table discussion about the MOOC and the need for raising awareness on gender & diversity issues at film & media institutions.

Topics of the discussion will include gender & diversity issues, race, disability, queerness, critical pedagogy, Romani representation and more.

The link for the MOOC will be available on the future.film.education website and all are invited to share it with students and other interested parties.

The future.film.education international research project lead by the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln (Germany), in co-operation with MOME (Hungary) and Lusofona University (Portugal) – created free tools for implementing online teaching as well as promoting gender & diversity at film schools.

Add to your calendar here: https://bit.ly/3p34uvb

Read more about the toolkit here: https://www.futurefilm.education

 

WHY SO SERIOUS? Teaching Comedy in Film Schools April 24th to 26th 2023

On April 24th-26th 2023, The National Film School at IADT, Dún Laoghaire  hosted a conference on Teaching Comedy in Film Schools “Why So Serious?”. The event was held in Studio 1 on our campus in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

A GEECT Teaching Conference, hosted by IADT and supported by CILECT, FilmEU and NAHEMI brought together experts in comedy writing to share their insights and advise on how to teach comedy in film schools across the world.

First day highlight was  Keynote Jill Condon (Friends, Bill Cosby Show) “From Writers’ Room to the Classroom” talk as well as her booked out workshops.

Second day brought Ted Wilkes – (re)Structuring Modern Comedy, Jill Condon – Writers Room, Ben Mallaby – Improvisation, Rory Connolly –The Anatomy of a Joke presentations and workshops.

The last day the guests had opportunity to listen to interesting Animation Roundtable discussions with Lena Byrne & Shane Langan (Sow You Entertainment) and in the afternoon, Paddy Breathnach (director) & Emma Norton (producer) shared an interesting Case Study on the TV show “The Dry”.

 

Last FilmEU Cineclub this academic year (26th April )

C-accelerate meeting in Dublin

April 29th and 30th, IADT hosted the first C-Accelerate working meeting in Dublin. David Smith, President of IADT, welcomed our guests from partner organizations Aalto University, Tallinn University (BFM, Tallinna Ülikool ) LUCA Film School ( LUCA Drama ) and University of Lusofona (Lusófona Filmes ). Two days of intensive work and brainstorming on how we are aiming to increase innovation and entrepreneurship in our organizations.

Interested in the project? More information at https://www.c-accelerate.eu/

 

IADT FilmEU CineClub, The Quiet Girl screening, with Stephne Rennicks in presence.

Next FilmEU Talks - experts on Air with Ruud Lenssen on the 20th of April

WHY SO SERIOUS? - Call for papers

February 22, 2023: Cineclub hosted by LUCA School of Arts

On Wednesday February 22, LUCA organizes the 3rd edition of the FilmEU Cineclub of this academic year which will be organised in person at LUCA and simultaneously streamed at the FilmEU partner institutions.

Three filmmakers are invited to screen and talk about their films: Julie Verstraten with the animation film Inertia, Brahim Tall with Tukuleur and Géraldine Charpentier with Papa Zaza. Julie Verstraten and Brahim Tall are both LUCA alumni who both won the VAF Wildcard this year. Géraldine Charpentier is an animation film alumna of École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre.

All three films deal with deeply intimate personal subject matter. Through dialogue we aim to take a closer look at their praxis and which knowledge they could share with our students.

Synopsis ‘Tukuleur’ by Brahim tall: Hair, posture and skin colour shift, intersect and alternate, creating a choreography of looks and poses based on representations throughout art history and pop culture. By making its central character ever changing, Tukuleur attempts to show how our gaze influences the interpretation of different bodies in different contexts. The film then shows the consequences of these gazes and their linked representations for the personal growth of the character, and their struggle to find a place between acceptance and otherness.

Synopsis ‘Inertia’ by Julie Verstraten: Inertia is about J, a young woman in her early twenties, who loses a loved one. Instead of standing still and reflecting on how this loss affects her, she resolutely looks the other way and suppresses emotions. A shadow manifests itself in her flat and slowly takes over her desk, covering her books and drawing materials. J acknowledges the presence but makes no attempt to ascertain its meaning. She keeps running away until she is forced to reflect.

Synopsis ‘Papa Zaza’ by Géraldine Charpentier: Fleur tells the story of the illness of her dad, Zaza, which disrupts her daily life and that of her brothers as they try to grow up and play, like any child. The disease is shown through a child’s eyes and voice. Here is a new perspective of a common situation: waiting for their father’s return from a hospital is disruptive for children too young to understand everything.

PROGRAMME

• Screening location (IADT):
  • A019 (Atrium building)
• Programme:
  • 16h – 18h

An Cailín Ciúin nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film!

An Cailín Ciúin nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film! This is the first time an Irish-language film has ever been nominated in this category, selected from 92 eligible countries. Several nominations for The Banshees of Inisherin and short film An Irish Goodbye, which was nominated for Best Live Action Short. Congratulations also to the Irish actors Paul Mescal, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan on their Academy Award nominations across the acting categories!

An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl as it makes history as the first Irish-language feature film to be shortlisted for the Oscars®!

C-ACCELERATE Conference in Tallinn with FilmEU

FilmEU Talks with Peter Zeitlinger

December 9th, join us for the last FilmEU Talks as a part of Lusófona University (Portugal) Audiovisual Week – a week dedicated to students being in contact with audiovisual specialists, researchers and professionals.

This will be an unique opportunity to watch the film “The Angel in the Wall”, directed by Lorenzo Bianchini and cinematography by Peter Zeitlinger. Recently, the film competed at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland. The film is a great case study and it will be followed by a masterclass with the cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger.

FilmEU Talks with Nan Goldin

December 5th, join us for the first FilmEU Talks as a part of Lusófona University (Portugal) Audiovisual Week – a week dedicated to students being in contact with audiovisual specialists, researchers and professionals.

Lusofona University will host filmmaker and photographer Nan Goldin for a special masterclass with students and professors from the Department of Cinema and Media Arts.

Nancy (Nan) Goldin, born September 12, 1953, is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986). The monograph documents the post-Stonewall, gay subculture and includes Goldin’s family and friends. She is a founding member of the advocacy group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now).^[1] She lives and works in New York City, Berlin, and Paris.

Join us for the live broadcast, December 5^th, at 3:00pm, room C026.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsce6uqj4sHtMMfE3c-Va5NQOgt8mMuiGT?fbclid=IwAR1bkMrr_qdeVg43cfTDL3B5tRrXd2z1CNYZV3GDMYa-Q8quhNzveCG1xZg

Life, VR and the Metaverse

National Film School at IADT, Ireland. hosted a special guest David Bassuk for a FilmEu supported session – IMMERSIVE NARRATIVES & STAGING – exploring how contemporary narratives are shifting focus from storytelling to story-living.

David Bassuk consults internationally in the field of transmedia storytelling, gameplay and immersive design with a focus on projects in Europe and China. He has been the Dean of Theatre Arts & Film at Purchase College, SUNY School of the Arts, New York where he is currently Professor of Acting at their Conservatoire of Theatre Arts.                                                      Engaging the audience of the IMMERSIVE NARRATIVES session with several metaverse-relevant techniques such as transmedia worldbuilding and site-responsive immersive storytelling, Bassuk’s work brings attention to the key question “How can we harness technology to evoke empathy and emotion while at the same time enable a storytelling experience that is intuitive, fluid and compelling for the audience?”

David Bassuk followed up the introductory IMMERSIVE NARRATIVES session – attended by an audience of 60 students and staff – with an exciting practical workshop for 20 x participants exploring IMMERSIVE STAGING.

This FilmEu and National Film School, IADT event came together with input and support from IADT staff members Barry Dignam, Vanessa Gildea, Jean Rice, David Cooper along with the Studio 1 student television crew. It was introduced and facilitated by David Keating, Lecturer in Film Directing at the National Film School, IADT.

FilmEU Talks with Lucija Mrzljak

Second edition of FilmEU’s Cineclub

Join us for the Portuguese edition of FilmEU’s Cineclub. Berlinale Forum and Visions du Reel 2021, fascinating documentary about an ex New York cab driver, who witnessed numerous Wall Street crashes.

It will take place Wednesday the 16^th of November in room A019, 4pm.

No Táxi do Jack / Jack’s Ride by Susana Nobre

At 63 years old and almost retired, Joaquim is forced to follow job centre rules so he can collect unemployment benefits. Despite knowing that he will never return to active life, he must go from company to company asking for stamps to attest that he is looking for work. In these trips he reminisces about his life as an immigrant in the U.S., where he worked as a cab driver in New York and witnessed numerous Wall Street crashes. 

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Erasmus Mundus of the FilmEU alliance are open

Ideation week in Brussels

IADT and NFS students were among 60 students of our 4 FilmEU partners selected for the pilot in Belgium in the first week of November. For a week in Belgium, they were learning, having fun, working together and, last but not least, making a film with an impact.

FilmEU represented at CILECT

First edition of FilmEU’s Cineclub

FilmEU Talks are back. BFM (Tallinn University) will host talk 'On how to become famous' with Jaagup Tuisk.

FilmEU research artistic published on International Journal of Creative Media Research

Campus of the European Universities

30th June 2022, the FilmEU team were present at the Campus of the European Universities in Versailles, along with the representatives of other 41 higher education alliances.

FilmEU Team had the opportunity to meet with the representatives, staff and students of all European Universities Alliances and had fruitful discussions on different approaches and challenges the alliances are dealing with. FilmEU representatives had also a chance to meet with the French Minister for Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau.

The Campus of the European Universities was organised by the French Presidency in the European Commission. It was a great opportunity for networking and getting to know colleagues from other alliances.

FilmEU wins an EIT project

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) announced the 26 winning consortia selected to take part in the EIT HEI Initiative. The FilmEU Alliance is a full partner in the C-ACCELERATE project, coordinated by IDBM and Aalto University. The C-Accelerate project aims to accelerate the role of creative communities through the exploration of entrepreneurial education and radical creativity within European education. The approval of C-Accelerate is a unique opportunity to boost the innovation capacity of our institutions.

Read more here.

Wip & Marc will talk to us about their experience in the creative process of directing and writing for Preschool animation. Directing and writing the commercial preschool animation film ‘Two Tiny Toddlers’ during the pandemic also brought some new insights and challenges. They will provide us with some insights into this creative process.

Wip Vernooij (38) is a director, storyboard artist and animator, who most recently directed his second feature ‘Two Tiny Toddlers’, which will see a Dutch and Belgium release in 2022. It is the first 3D animated family film coming from the Netherlands.

Wip Vernooij has been named one of the Rising Stars of 2022 by the American magazine Animation Magazine!!! There he is, among people working at PIXAR and DreamWorks. Wip is someone who can make great strides on his own within narrow budgetary margins.

Mid 00’s Wip started as an intern at the animation studio Lawson & Whatshisname, then one of only a very few studios in the Netherlands. Soon after he moved to London and studied traditional hand-drawn character animation after which he remained in the UK to work on a variety of projects as an animator and compositor for educational games, commercials and music videos. In 2013 Wip debuted as director on a 2D animated feature called ‘Moshi Monsters the Movie’. He has since been involved in a number of TV-series and developments for young audiences as storyboard artist, series- and episodic director. Such as Wellie Wishers (Mattel), Fox & Hare (Submarine) and Dr. Panda (Dr. Panda)

Marc Veerkamp (Alkmaar, 1971) studied journalism and screenwriting. He started out as a journalist specializing in pedagogical subjects. During his career he shifted his focus to fiction. Nowadays Veerkamp mainly writes for film, television and theater. He was part of the writing team of SESAMSTRAAT for over 17 years. After that he also wrote for other Dutch youth series, such as HET ZANDKASTEEL and VRIJLAND.

He regularly works on animation projects. He also wrote, for the NTR-series GEORGE & PAUL, the Telemovie DE TAND DES TIJDS and the feature film ‘Two Tiny Toddlers’.

As a theater writer Veerkamp works for both children (e.g. RAAD EENS HOEVEEL IK VAN JE HOU) and adults (e.g. MA, based on the book of the same name by Hugo Borst).

He also published a children’s novel about KING ARTHUR and the picture book BEER IS NOOIT ALLEEN with illustrator Jeska Verstegen. Together with writer Bart Juttmann he wrote the yet-to-be-published book EN HET WOORD WERD BEELD, in which the writing process of 50 classic films and series is described.

The event is free, register here.

Olga Lucovnicova (Moldova, 1991) is a Belgium based documentary filmmaker and aspiring researcher in the field of audiovisual arts. She studied six years of cinematography at the Academy of Arts of Moldova and two years of documentary filmmaking at DocNomads, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program delivered by a consortium of three prominent European universities across three countries: Portugal, Hungary and Belgium. Currently, Olga pursues her studies in film at the doctoral school at KU Leuven University. She was awarded an FWO (The Research Foundation – Flanders) fellowship for fundamental research for her personal doctoral research project on post-memory in the post-Soviet society and its research through first-person documentary film.  Olga moved to Belgium in September 2019 to pursue her studies at LUCA School of Arts. Her graduation film “My Uncle Tudor” produced in Belgium, premiered in Berlinale in 2021 and was awarded the Golden Bear. “My Uncle Tudor” also won the European Film Academy Award, which is the European equivalent of the Oscar. The film travelled to over 40 film festivals and was awarded many important awards like the Golden Chair for Best Short Documentary at Norwegian FF, Best Short Documentary award at Ismailia IFF in Egypt, Big Stamp for Best Short Film at the ZagrebDox FF in Croatia, Best European Short at Sarajevo FF in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Best Director at Astra FF in Romania, Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato IFF in Mexico and many others.

Olga is a member of The European Film Academy and Moldavian Union of Cinematographers (MUC).

Read more:
https://www.filmeu.eu/initiatives-and-events/filmeu-talks-experts-on-air/

The event is free, but registration is mandatory.   link

Dr Vejune Zemaityte - Cultural data analytics for understanding today’s cinema – 10th May 13H CET

Dr Vejune Zemaityte is Senior Research Fellow at the ERA Chair for Cultural Data Analytics in the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School at Tallinn University, Estonia. Vejune uses computational data analysis and visualisation techniques including Social Network Analysis to study global film industries, with a primary focus on cultural and gender diversity. Her work is interdisciplinary, data-driven, and industry-facing, often performed in collaboration with external partners such as Festival de Cannes, Women in Motion, or the Australian Cinematographers Society.

With ever-increasing amounts of data available about the global film industries, how do we as researchers select the important questions to pursue and the appropriate methodologies to adopt in order to answer them? In this talk, Vejune Zemaityte draws upon her experience of working as part of multidisciplinary research groups, as well as on industry-facing research collaborations, to discuss the nature of data-driven work concerning diversity and global cinema.

The event is free! Register here.

FilmEU Cineclub

Cineclub is where four film nights will be organized throughout the academic year 2021-2022.  Each partner of the FilmEU alliance will organize a night where students and staff can watch a film that will take place simultaneously at the four institutions.  These screenings will take place on the 20^th of October, 10^th of November and the 9^th of February and March.  Students will not only watch an international film but they will also get a chance to participate in a masterclass with a question and answers session with guest speakers.  The first film Vitalina Varela is Portuguese and the Director Pedro Costa will be available for discussion after the show.

FilmEU Talks - Experts on Air!

Experts on-Air is a new initiative aiming at reinforcing this diversity and openness by inviting experts in different domains of film and the media arts to present and discuss with us their achievements and experiences and the lessons they entail. These talks will reinforce our ability to connect to society and others and more importantly it will foster the ideals of collaboration and mutual reinforcement that shape FilmEU. Let the talks begin!

Barry Dignam | Head of Department of European Projects

“The summit was a delight and a huge success. Not only did we get to meet our colleagues face to face for the first time, but we also had the opportunity to reach out and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing film education and indeed society as we look toward a post-pandemic Europe”.

To highlight the alliance’s main objectives and future plans, a FilmEU summit is organized every year. The summit takes place in September and is symbolically linked to the start of a new and fruitful academic year. Last year’s summit was organized online from September 21 until September 24 and was open to the public on the 22^nd. The day consisted of talks and roundtable discussions revolving around the challenges that arise within the field of film and media in a (post-) covid world and how to tackle them. All speakers were experts in their respective domains.

“IADT is delighted to have been selected to help shape the vision of what the university of the future will look like. Along with our international partners we have been awarded funding of €5m to create the concept of FilmEU, a European University of Film and Media Arts.

 

Involving students, staff and industry stakeholders we will spend the next three years finding best practice within our institutions and across the globe to synthesise and pilot innovations that encompass all spheres of activity of a modern university.”

 

Barry Dignam, Head of the Department of European Projects
National Film School IADT

Together, we collaborate around the common objective of jointly promoting high-level education, innovation and research activities in the multidisciplinary field of Film and Media Arts and consolidate the central role of Europe as a world leader in the creative fields.

FilmEU is focused on long-term strategic collaboration and our mission is to create a European University that is a model for collaboration in the fields of the Arts and the creative industries and that will greatly contribute to Europe’s leading role as a provider of education and research in the creative and artistic areas.