History

Since his arrival as the highest authority of the University of Los Andes in 1958, Dr. Pedro Rincón Gutiérrez wanted to link the University to national to Latin American filmmaking. The first initiative was in 1962 when the Department of Cinema of the University of Los Andes was created. In 1970 the filmmaker Carlos Rebolledo joined the Department of Cinema and he continued with the interest to constitute a cinema school. In 1983 the Department of Culture created the Experimental Art Center, where the creation of a film school was planned. All these attempts were consolidated on October 4, 1991, when José Antonio Abreu, representing the National Council for Culture and the President of the ULA at that time and Néstor López Rodriguez, signed an agreement to create the National Film and Television School at ULA. The National University Council (CNU) approved the creation of a degree in Audiovisual Media on December 15, 1995, and the beginning of academic activities of the EMA, as it is known since then.

Structure

The School of Audiovisual Media is composed of 4 departments: Realization and Production, Cinematography and Video, Human Sciences and recently the Department of Social Communication was joined.

Since the approval of its creation, the School of Audiovisual Media enjoys the privilege of being the only at a high-education level in the country. In addition, most of its alumni have been awarded due to the quality of their professional performance and some of them conformed the professorial staff of the school.

The School of Audiovisual Media awards the degrees in Audiovisual Media and Social Communication. For further information about undergraduate study programs, please refer to Study Programs