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Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA)

Higher School of Audiovisual Production (ESRA)

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  • Basic Facts
  • Mission & Strategy
  • Degree Areas
  • Key Teaching Staff
  • Successful Graduates

Basic Facts

  • Year of Foundation:

    1972

  • Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:

    2008

  • Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:

    1992

  • Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:

    Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur

  • Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):

    Max Azoulay

  • Address:

    135 Avenue Félix Faure

  • Country:

    France

  • Website:

    https://www.esra.edu

  • Points of Contact

    CILECT Contact Person:
    General Director: Max Azoulay
    Email:
    maz@esra.edu
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Director: Denis Morel
    Telephone:
    +33 1 44 25 25 15

Mission & Strategy

ESRA is a French Film School, created in 1972. It is the only private school entitled by the French government to issue and deliver a Bachelor (Bac+3) and a Master (Bac+5) State Degree.
ESRA alumni include over 6,000 active professionals in the film industry. ESRA alumni work in the fields of cinema, television, music, sound engineering and animation film.
Based in Paris, ESRA also has campuses in Nice and Cannes, on the French Riviera, since 1988, and in Rennes since 1999 and in Brussels since 2015.
Each campus includes a Film/Television department (ESRA), a Sound Engineering department (ISTS) and an Animation Film department (ESRA 3D).
Those three year bachelor programs allow students to learn all the aspects of each of their fields before choosing a major in third year.

Degree Areas

CINEMA & TELEVISION

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

  • Training Type

    Full-Time

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  • Portfolio & Interview

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3D ANIMATION

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

  • Training Type

    Full-Time

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SOUND

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

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    Full-Time

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Assistant Director and Director

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    Full-Time

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Editor

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Shooting Operator

  • Degree Awarded

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    Full-Time

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    No information

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    No information

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    No information

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    No information

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    No information

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Production Manager

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    Full-Time

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  • Portfolio & Interview

    No information

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    No information

  • High Institution Matriculation

    No information

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    No information

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    No information

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Chief Sound Operator

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    Full-Time

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  • Portfolio & Interview

    No information

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    No information

  • High Institution Matriculation

    No information

  • Recognized Prior Expertise

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    No information

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  • Practical Work

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Successful Graduates

Pascal Laugier

Major Achievements:

Pascal Laugier was born on October 16, 1971 in France. He is a director and writer, known for Incident in a Ghostland (2018), Martyrs (2008) and The Tall Man (2012).

Florent-Emilio Siri

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Rémi Bezançon

Major Achievements:

Rémi Bezançon studied at the École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris and the École du Louvre. In 2005, he released his first feature film Ma vie en l’air with Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche and Vincent Elbaz before meeting with success in 2008 with The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.

In 2011, he directed Un heureux événement, his third feature film adapted from the autobiographical best-seller by Eliette Abécassis, with Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï and Josiane Balasko. The soundtrack, as with his previous films, is composed by Sinclair.

Maxime Musqua

Major Achievements:

Maxime Musqua is a French comedian and actor. He was a columnist at the Petit Journal for one season between September 2013 and June 2014.

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