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Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ENSAV)

National Higher Audiovisual School (ENSAV)

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

Basic Facts

  • Year of Foundation:

    1979

  • Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:

    1990

  • Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:

    1979

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

    Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche

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

    Alexandre Beznosiuk

  • Address:

    56 rue du Taur 31000 Toulouse FRANCE

  • Country:

    France

  • Website:

    https://esav.fr

  • Points of Contact

    CILECT Contact Person:
    Isabelle Labrouillère
    Telephone:
    05 61 50 40 71
    Email:
    labrouillere@univ-tlse2.fr
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Alexandre Beznosiuk
    Email:
    alexandre.beznosiuk@univ-tlse2.f

Mission & Strategy

In France, alongside La Fémis and Louis Lumière, ENSAV is one of the three major public film schools. The National School of Audiovisual (ENSAV) is an internal school of the University Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (Article L713-9).

Founded in 1979, ENSAV is built upon creative-research practices. With a commitment to engaging with reality and social issues, it offers a range of audio-visual experimentation from the 3rd year of the Bachelor’s degree to the Doctorate level, involving numerous practical film projects (both analog and digital).

Since 2003, ENSAV has been housed in one of the oldest academic buildings in France (13th century), located in the city center of Toulouse, in close proximity to the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the ABC Cinema.

Since 2017, ENSAV has been renamed from ESAV (École Supérieure d’Audiovisuel) to ENSAV (École Nationale Supérieure d’Audiovisuel).

Degree Areas

Audiovisual Studies

  • Degree Awarded

    BFA

  • Training Type

    Full-Time

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  • Portfolio & Interview

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Graphic Creation Applied to Audiovisual

  • Degree Awarded

    BFA

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    Full-Time

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Directing

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

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    Full-Time

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    No information

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Sound

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

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    Full-Time

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    No information

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Image

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

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    Full-Time

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  • Portfolio & Interview

    No information

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    No information

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Visual Effects (VFX) and Architecture/Production Design

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

  • Training Type

    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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Production

  • Degree Awarded

    MFA

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    Full-Time

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Admission Requirements

  • Portfolio & Interview

    No information

  • Agreements with Foreign Governments

    No information

  • High Institution Matriculation

    No information

  • Recognized Prior Expertise

    No information

  • Talent Entrance Exams

    No information

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  • Practical Work

    No information

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Successful Graduates

Laurent Salgues

Major Achievements:

Laurent Salgues (born 13 September 1967) is a French filmmaker.

Laurent Salgues was born on 13 September 1967. He attended the École Supérieure d’Audiovisuel (ESAV) in Toulouse, where he obtained a master’s degree in audiovisual studies. He went on to the Conservatoire Européen d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle (CEEA) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for further studies in screenplay writing. Between 1992 and 1996 he directed three shorts: Eternité moins cinqCamilio and La femme à l’ombrelle. He has written screenplays for television and film since 2003.

His first full-length feature film was Rêves de poussière (Dreams of Dust – 2007). The film was a France-Canada co-production between Athénaïse – Sophie Salbot and Corporation ACPAV inc. – Marc Daigle. The associate producer was Sékou Traoré of the Burkina Faso company Sahelis Productions. Rêves de poussière tells of Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerien peasant, who goes to look for work in a gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso. He hopes to forget the past in this prison, where the bars are made of dust and wind. A reviewer says the “opening shot reminds you of a choreographed musical—only there is no music, only silence and the sounds of workers’ tools”. Another critic says “Cinematographed by Crystel Fournier, images are hauntingly dreamlike. Wind-swept dust is a recurrent motif”.

Laurent Salgues is married to the actress Fatou Tall Salgues.

Pierre Rigal

Major Achievements:

Pierre Rigal (born 1973) is a French dancer and choreographer based in Toulouse, France.

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