EICAR – The International Film and Television School
EICAR prepares the filmmakers of tomorrow with a comprehensive practical degree program incorporating Directing, Production, Editing, Screenwriting and Cinematography. Take this opportunity to meet with experts from EICAR, learn about related new job opportunities, key creative and technical skills for tomorrow's audiovisual leaders, and discover the training opportunities you can access with EICAR.
DESCRIPTION OF INSTITUTION
EICAR The International Film and Television School Paris, was founded in 1972. The International Department, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in English, was founded in 2000.
The EICAR international Department prepares the filmmakers of tomorrow with a comprehensive practical degree program incorporating the following disciplines:
Our philosophy of « learning by doing » forms the core of our pedagogical approach to prepare students in all the aspects of production in an exercise based approach to classes where students master adapting technologies and learn by their mistakes. Our partnerships with local companies also give students the chance to pursue internships for credit and our international network of alumni and teachers make taking that next vital step to starting a career, a little more accessible.
The objective of our programs is to prepare students for the challenging but thrilling film industry workplace by making them polyvalent filmmakers capable of accepting any challenge.
Fostering your contacts begins at school: our teachers are also professionals, our master class lecturers are working pros in the industry and the range of our visiting professors coming from the four corners of the globe to give workshops in their chosen field represents a valued opportunity to build one’s contact base.
This together with the international student alumni, who often make successful careers in different countries, means that our international department students are in a far more advantageous position to adapt to an industry that, by nature, is becoming more and more international: from financing and pre-production to crewing up.
Students take on different positions during the production period term, giving them valuable experience in a variety of different roles contributing to the most vital part of the education: lots of practical experience.
MAY 27th: FRENCH CINEMA: JOIN THE NEW WAVE
Bob Swaim will be participating in a panel discussion on "Hong Kong, France and global film industries, and their evolutions post-2020" on May 27th (Thurs) as part of “French Cinema: Join the New Wave - Discover New Skills and Training Opportunities”. Tune in to the discussion from 5:00pm - 6:30pm (HK time).
Register here.
Speaker Profile
Bob Swaim, Director, Writer
Bob Swaim is a member of the Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy, the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, and the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatique.
Director, writer, producer for more than forty years, his films have been honored with awards from over thirty film festivals and international competitions including the French César Awards and the Berlinale’s UNICEF Prize for Best Feature.
In 2007, Bob Swaim asked to re-organize and develop the International Department of EICAR, the International Film & Television school of Paris. Today the school is classed among the top five international film academies.
For his contribution to the French film industry, the French Minister of Culture has named him Officier des Arts et des Lettres.
Bob Swaim is currently Director of the International Department EICAR and writing his next feature film.
