Master in Cinema
Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Porto
Key Information
Campus location
Porto, Portugal
Languages
English, Portuguese
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 10,500
Application deadline
18 Apr 2024
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Introduction
The Master in Cinema of the School of Arts is advanced training in contemporary cinema, allowing students to develop their creative and technical skills based on individual projects. Students will be able to choose a specific focus of work (whether in “classic” cinema, in an installation project, or in any other form of research). The student will be challenged while being immersed in contemporary artistic thought, challenged to understand different forms of moving images and how cinema can enable reflection and awareness of our constantly evolving world.
The program is project-based. The SoA professors in collaboration with visiting artists and filmmakers will coordinate the student’s project, as well as provide the educational platform for the development of technical and artistic skills.
Attendance Regimes
Languages: Portuguese, English
The School of Arts
The School of Arts at Universidade Católica Portuguesa is based in Porto and offers different degrees in arts education. Its two main areas are (1) film & new media art and (2) conservation and restoration. The School presents itself as an art school, focusing on the development of artists with technological knowledge but also with humanistic education, fostering future directors or visual artists that can think the world around us. The School of Arts is one of the main Film Schools in Portugal. With over 500 students in its Sound and Image Department (across BA, MA, and Ph.D. studies), it offers a wide range of curricular options for aspiring filmmakers. The School of Arts also offers its students a complete range of updated film equipment and a body of staff with renowned film professionals, critics, and theorists. Over the last years, a great number of former students have won important awards in film festivals all over the world. Furthermore, it frequently organizes masterclasses, workshops, artistic residencies, and seminars with acclaimed filmmakers and film researchers, in order to allow its students to be constantly challenged, updated, and motivated into filmmaking.
At the moment, the School already has an intense cultural program, with artists in residence (in 2018, it was the internationally renowned filmmaker Salomé Lamas; in 2019 the artists Nuno da Luz, Ana Vaz, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Yohei Yamakado, and Vasco Araújo), a cycle of conferences with special guests (artists, filmmakers, scholars), and a periodic calendar of exhibits at the School’s exhibition space (since 2018, the School presented exhibitions by Francisco Tropa, João Paulo Serafim, Salomé Lamas, Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela, Nuno da Luz, Julião Sarmento, Jonathan Saldanha, and Guido Guidi). Also, its Research Center (CITAR – Research Center for the Science and Technology of the Arts) has a plan of activities closely related to the School and it is funded by ongoing projects and by the government institution Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
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Curriculum
1st year, 1st semester
Curricular Unit | Hours | ECTS |
Contemporary Cinema | 28 | 5 |
Criticism and Curatorship | 28 | 5 |
Art Theory | 28 | 5 |
Project I | 84 | 15 |
1st year, 2nd semester
Curricular Unit | Hours | ECTS |
Art & Cinema | 28 | 5 |
Themes of Contemporary Culture | 28 | 5 |
Seminar | 28 | 5 |
Project II | 84 | 15 |
2nd year
Curricular Unit | Hours | ECTS |
Project or Internship or Dissertation | Tutor | 60 |