Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
1986
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
1991
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
1986
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
MINCULT
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Susana Molina
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Address:
Finca San Tranquilino, Km 4,5 Carretera a Vereda Nueva, Ap. Aereo 40/41 San Antonio de los Banos, La Habana
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Country:
Cuba
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Website:
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:Jerónimo Labrada HernándezTelephone:+5347383104Email:jlabrada@eictv.org.cuCILECT Contact Person:Manager International Relations: Chavdar Ferrer SandovalTelephone:+53 47 38 33 33Email:chfersan@eictv.org.cu / relaciones.internacionales@eictv.co.cuCILECT Contact Person:Director: Susana MolinaEmail:susana@eictv.co.cu
Mission & Strategy
The International School of Film and Television (EICTV) is considered one of the most important audiovisual training institutions in the world. It was created by the Filmmakers Committee of Latin America as a subsidiary of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation, with the support of the government of the Republic of Cuba. It was inaugurated on December 15, 1986.
Originally conceived for students from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, EICTV implemented the teaching philosophy of “learning by doing,” with active filmmakers as professors who transmit their knowledge backed by practice and experience. Currently, enrollment is open to individuals interested in audiovisual studies from all around the world. Thousands of professionals and students from over 50 countries have passed through its classrooms, making it a space for cultural diversity.
EICTV is headquartered near San Antonio de Los Baños, Artemisa Province, Cuba. Located about an hour from the center of Havana and 25 minutes from the José Martí International Airport, it is situated in a rural area atop a vast plain.
Mailing Address: Finca San Tranquilino, Km 4 1/2 Carretera a Vereda Nueva. San Antonio de los Baños. Artemisa.
Since its creation, the school has been led by directors such as Fernando Birri (1986-91), an Argentine filmmaker, poet, actor, and puppeteer, a pioneer of New Latin American Cinema, and co-founder of EICTV; Orlando Senna (1991-94), a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and journalist, and co-founder of EICTV; Lisandro Duque (1994-96), a Colombian director, screenwriter, actor, and editor; Alberto García Ferrer (1996-2000), an Argentine producer, professor, writer, and cultural cooperation specialist; Edmundo Aray (2000-02), a Venezuelan poet, storyteller, historian, editor, and filmmaker, and co-founder of EICTV; Julio García Espinosa (2002-07), a Cuban director, screenwriter, and theorist, a precursor of New Latin American Cinema, and co-founder of EICTV; Tanya Valette, an EICTV graduate in Editing, a professor, producer, and cultural promoter from the Dominican Republic; Rafael Rosal Paz (2011-13), a Guatemalan filmmaker, producer, and cultural promoter, an EICTV graduate, and Jerónimo Labrada (2013-2016), a Cuban sound technician and professor. Susana Molina (2016) was Vice President of ICAIC for more than 16 years, has directed the ICAIC International Production Company, has been a professor for many years, and has extensive management experience.
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Documentary Film
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BFA / MFA
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Fiction Cinema
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Audiovisual Scriptwriting
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MFA
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Alternative Cinema
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MFA
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Production
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Screenplay
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BFA
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Television
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New Media
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Successful Graduates
Miguel Coyula
Miguel Coyula Aquino (born March 31, 1977, in Havana) is a Cuban filmmaker and writer. Working with a multi-disciplinary approach, his films usually take several years to complete. He has been described by critics as a virtuoso and an innovator. The multi-layered narratives of his films often deal with alienation, they contain graphic depictions of sexuality, and frontal criticism of society and politicians. The controversial nature of his work have resulted in the banning of his work in Cuba, although they have also suffered censorship in Argentina, Belarus, Morocco, and Beirut. The press usually refers to him as the enfant terrible of Cuban Cinema.
At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (The International Film and Television School) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 2001, he received a scholarship at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. While attending the Strasberg Institute, Coyula made his first feature, Red Cockroaches (2003), for less than $2000 over a two-year period. The film was described by Variety as “a triumph of technology in the hands of a visionary with know-how…” The film won over twenty awards in film festivals around the world.
In 2009, Coyula was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for developing his second feature, the film Memories of Overdevelopment (2010), a follow-up to the Cuban classic Memorias del Subdesarrollo (1968), based on the novel by Cuban writer Edmundo Desnoes. After its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the film garnered several awards and honors. The International Film Guide described it as one of the best films Cuba has produced. In 2013 La Pereza Ediciones published his first novel Mar Rojo, Mal Azul. From 2015 to the 2016 he produced the web Series Rafael Alcides and the documentary feature Nobody (2017) which won the Best Documentary award at the Global Film Festival in Santo Domingo. His latest feature Blue Heart (2021), was filmed over ten years in Havana, premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival and won the Hollywood Foreign Press Association award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Cineaste described the film as “…the culminating point of Coyula’s artistic growth. It stands as his most visceral experience…”
His second novel, La Isla Vertical was published in 2022 by Ediciones Deslinde in Madrid.
Jaime Rosales
Jaime Rosales (born 1970 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, (Australia).
He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del día that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, La soledad.
His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujirō Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots. He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad, film that received the Goya for Best Film too.
His 2012 film Dream and Silence was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and also appeared at the 56th London Film Festival. His 2014 film Beautiful Youth was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Mariana Rondón
Mariana Rondón (born 1966 in Barquisimeto, Lara state) is a Venezuelan cinema director, screenwriter, producer and visual artist. She studied at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (San Antonio de los Baños International School), in Cuba, and later animation in France. In 1990 she created the Andean Multinational Company “Sudaca Films” together with other Latin American film makers.
Jorge Molina Enríquez
Jorge Molina Enríquez (born 1966 in Palma Soriano in the province of Santiago) is a Cuban actor and film director. After studying cinema in the USSR, he graduated from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba), known as EICTV. His thesis film, Molina’s Culpa was a controversial tale with anti-Catholic content. He is a member of the communist party
Benito Zambrano
Benito Zambrano (Lebrija, 20 March 1965), is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director. His film Habana Blues was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[1] He studied at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba.