Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
1973
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
2014
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
1997
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
CNCP
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Jérôme Enrico
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Address:
21 rue de Cîteaux - 75012 - Paris
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Country:
France
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Website:
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:President: Réginald de GuillebonEmail:reginald@esec.eduCILECT Contact Person:Director General: Jérôme EnricoEmail:jerome.enrico@esec.edu
Mission & Strategy
The ECOLE SUPERIEURE D’ETUDES CINEMATOGRAPHIQUES (ESEC), is a private school centrally located in Paris. With 43 years of existence, the ESEC developped an international recognition.
Certified by the French Ministry of Labour the school has a close partnership with the Sydney Film School organising Students exchanges. The school is proudly giving Intermediate Level English classes to all students.
The school emphasize on a collaborative practice-based learning and the students achieve over 60 films per year.
Having high connexions with the Film Industry, the ESEC takes part in the professional integration of its graduate students through required internships at the end of their studies.
Through its under graduate and graduate programs, the ESEC prepares its candidates for carrers in:
– Directing for Film and Video, with optional sections in screenwriting and documentary filmmaking,
– Film and video production,
– Video editing and digital special effects for film and video,
– Screen writing.
Preparatory course:
You may follow the one-year course if you have not passed you high-school degree or A-Level, or if you wish to acquire a good level of basic education and a suitable method of working.
First Year/ Second Year:
The first and Second year prepare the students for the ESEC Diploma. They take place over a school year lasting from mid-october through the end of june or early July.
Oral and written exams, tests, supervising individual exam or team work as well as year end productions allows for an evaluation of students’s skills during these two years. The student is elligible for the diploma when he/she has maintained an average of 10/20 over the course of tests and exams.
In the Cinema department (only), the student will only be a recipient of the diploma upon completion of an internship at the end of the second year.
Non-curricular projects: Some non-curricular projects are selected by the School according to their pedagogical value. They include participating in festivals (Cannes, Clermont, Sarlat), productions with outside partners or taking part in cultural events, or in technical fairs and meetings.
With over 400 students (265 under gratuates and 145 graduates), coming from over 20 countries, ESEC delivers its own diplomas in cinematography and audiovisual techniques.
– Registered with the Ministry of Education in 1973, member of the FEMIS national college since 1986 until 1998, ESEC is a professional school, training students in the fields of cinema, audiovisual mediums, and multimedia applied to various audiovisual mediums.
– As with other national schools, ESEC delivers its own diplomas in cinematography and audiovisual techniques, which are french and international diplomas at level II.
– These diplomas are recognized as among the most important diplomas delivered in France and are recognized by other universities and professional schools in France and abroad, including in 70 other countries. Notably in the USA, at USC (U. o
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Audiovisual Project Manager
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Producer
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Line Producer
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General Manager
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Directing Assistant
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Sound Engineer
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Boom Operator
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Key Teaching Staff
MAFFRE Mathias
DEUG in modern literature.
Key editor, Motion designer, D.O.P.
Known for H-Man (2014) and Au sommet de la terre (2007)
BEFVE, Pierre
Louis Lumière school graduate, Pierre is a D.O.P and Sound engineer. (CESAR award 1989). He worked with the following awarded directors:
Jean-Jacques Beinex,
Luc Besson, Robin Davis, Bertrand Blier,
Alain Corneau,
Agnieska Holland,
Ettore Scolla…
BOPP, Corinne
FEMIS Graduate, Corinne has an extensive experience in the field of Documentary films:
-ARTE Key Documentary programmer (2000-2004),
-Jury for Le Festival du Réel,
-Key producer for the Paris Premiere show,
-Head of selection for the CNC Short founding program
CHAUVIN, Jean Sébastien
Bachelor in Cinéma, Jean-Sébastien is an Editor at Chronicart
and at Les Cahiers du Cinéma,
GAVRAS, Julie
Julie is a screen writer and a film director.
After graduate studies in literature and law, Julie Gavras turned to cinema. She worked with directors as diverse as Robert Enrico, Claire Devers, Jacques Nolot, Alexandre Jardin, Roberto Faenza and Michele Soavi. She also worked on World War II drama Amen, on which she served as an assistant director.
CHOVET, Julie
With a Master degree in audiovisual studies, Julie has worked on numerous films and series as an assistant Director and a Key location manager, she also has an extensive experience on the field of Publicity films.
CROS, Renan
Renan is an independant films and Series reviewer.
DE LAPPARENT, Noémie
Noémie is a writer and a screen writer.
FERRARI, Jean-Christophe
Jean Christophe is a writer and film critic. He also teaches esthetics in Film.
FEUVRE, Agnès
Femis Graduate, Agnes is a script doctor as well as a screen writer, she also directs.
HERBULOT Bernard
Law degree, Hypokhâgne – Khâgne;
screenwriter and Director
HODEBERT Bruno
Master degree in cinema Paris III.
Bruno Hodebert is a producer and actor, known for Bernie (1996), Le monde de Marty (2000) and Buud Yam (1997).
Professor and Head of production department at ESEC film school (Paris-France).
KOULMASIS Timon
Dregree in History and philosophy.
Timon Koulmasis is a director and writer, known for Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1994), Prin ti nyhta (2004) and De quelle couleur sont les murs de votre appartement? (2006). Timon also teaches at the LUSSAS documentary school.
LEJEUNE Florian
Graduated from the ESEC.
Florian is an Editor and also works in the visual effects department as well as the sound department.
MICHAUD Charles
Femis Degree.
Composer and Sound engineer.
MICHOT Jeremy
Doctorate degree in Cinema,
Master in musicology.
full time professor.
MOMCILOVIC Jérome
Degree in Political Science,
Journalist specialised in film reviews.
NAZI Sophie
Graduated from l’Ecole du Louvre in Art History.
Independant curator, lecturor.
PRADES Vincent
Graduated from the ESEC School.
1st Assistant Director
PRESCHEZ François
Teaches Mathematics and Photography.
SEBBAH Katherine
FEMIS Graduated, Katherine is a screenwriter/Director
TARDIEU Marianne
Louis Lumiere school graduated, D.O.P / Director
THERMES Louise
Graduated in drama studies, screenwriter, script doctor.
VIDAL NAQUET Camille
Master in Cinema, author, director
VILLIERS Aruna
Screenwriter and Director
VINAS RAYMOND Laurent
Graduated from ESEC, Screenwriter, Director
VOUYOUCAS Stratis
Master in Cinema, Documentary filmmaker, Key Editor.
WM - Additonal Teaching Staff
Michel CHION,
Jérome ENRICO,
Dan FRANCK,
Raphael CHEVENEMENT,
Thierry DEFOSSEZ,
Xavier GENS,
Martine IFERGAN,
Fréderic VIAL
+ 50 partime teachers…
ENRICO Jérome
Jérôme Enrico is a director and writer, known for Cerise (2015), Paulette (2012), Le rat noir d’amérique (1981).
Jérome is the Head of the ESEC films chool where he teaches screen writing.
Successful Graduates
DELBONNEL Bruno
Bruno Delbonnel was born in 1957 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. He is known for his work on Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001), Harry Potter et le prince de sang-mêlé (2009) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
CRUCHTEN Pol
Pol Cruchten (born 30 July 1963) is a Luxembourgish film Director and producer. His film Hochzäitsnuecht was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, he also directed two makor features : Black Dju and Boys on the Run.
AUBANEL Laurie
Co screenwriter for Paulette, directed by Jérome Enrico. The film has made over 1 million entries when released in 2013 and won 2 awards.
HAZAN Jonathan
Known for producing awarded short films.
VINAS Laurent
Writer, Director, Laurent teaches at the ESEC Film School and was also President of the jury of the second Festival du Film Polonais de Perpignan, France.
DREUJOU Jean-Marie
Cinematographer, Known for his work with Patrice LECOMTE, Jean-Jacques ANNAUD…
3 time nominated for the CESARS awards for best Photography.
BONTZOLAKIS Bruno
Director and Screenwriter,
Born: February 5, 1964 (age 52),
Movies and TV shows: Familles je vous hais, All For One, Vacances À Blériot…
ALBERT Jean-Jacques
Jean-Jacques Albert is a production manager and assistant director, known for La famille Bélier (2014), Les roseaux sauvages (1994) and Les femmes du 6e étage (2010).
BASCHIERI Daniel
Born in 1960 to a French mother and Italian father, in the south of France, bordering the Mediterranean, Daniel Baschieri has graduated from the Higher School of Film Studies (ESEC, Paris) class of 1984, years during which he produced and directed a short film in Super 8 “the game of passion”, before participating in his first feature film as assistant unit manager. Since 1985, he participated in about thirty feature films in France and abroad, as production manager and unit manager. Passionate about literature and writing, he is the author of several scenarios, an essay on French cinema “negative”, a book of poetry “nights of clay” and a diary “Adana Experience”. He recently created Sud Media Group, an independent production company, to develop his own feature film projects. Tireless traveler, warned movie buff, photographer in his spare time, interested in all the arts and foreign cultures, he has made from – the use of the world – an absolute principle of life, the manifesto, first and foremost, of the knowledge of Mankind.
BERGMAN Rémi
Rémi Bergman was born on May 30, 1960 in Marseille, France. He is known for his work on Une grande année (2006), La veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000) and Les misérables (1995).
LADJIMI Farès
Farès Ladjimi is a producer and production manager, known for El premio (2011), Le fil (2009) and Je veux voir (2008).
LETODE Philippe
Philippe LETODE is known for his work on Taken 1 and 2, Lucy, and Transporteur, produced by Luc BESSON.
ROSSI Céline
Known for her work as an assistant Director on Rush Hour, Pink Panther, the Devil wears Prada.
ABBOU Olivier
Olivier ABBOU is a Director and known for his work on Territories, le Tombeur, Madame Hollywood.
BOUFFARD Olivier
Olivier Bouffard is an assistant director and director, known for Trahison (2008), Je rentre à la maison (2001) and Michel Vaillant (2003).
DEBRE Noé
As a Screen writer he his known for his work on Dheepan (nominated for the CESARS awards : Best Original Screenplay
Dheepan (2015)
Shared with: Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain)
RAMBOUR Cyril
Co screenwriter for Paulette, directed by Jérome Enrico. The film has made over 1 million entries when released in 2013 and won 2 awards.
OLSEN Bianca
Co screenwriter for Paulette, directed by Jérome Enrico. The film has made over 1 million entries when released in 2013 and won 2 awards.