Basic Facts
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Year of Foundation:
1939
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Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:
2022
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Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:
1966
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Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:
The Council for Higher Education
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Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):
Meital Abukasis
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Address:
Ahad Ha'Am St 9, Tel Aviv-Yafo
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Country:
Israel
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Website:
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Points of Contact
CILECT Contact Person:Head of Film and Media School: Meital AbukasisTelephone:+972 3 69 05 471Email:meital.abukasis@smkb.ac.ilCILECT Contact Person:Distribution Department: Shahar KatzensteinEmail:festival.smkb@gmail.com
Mission & Strategy
The School of Film and Media in the Faculty of Arts at Kibbutzim College was founded in 2008. The School is the only one in Israel to award a bachelor’s degree in communication and film. Students earn a B.Ed. F.A and a teaching certificate for post-primary schools.
The study experience within the communication and film studies program is personal and includes learning in small groups, led by the leading academics and professionals in the field. Students at the School of Film and Media receive comprehensive academic and professional training, and enjoy technological resources and production scholarships.
The studies last four years and include four study days in the first two years, three study days in the third year and two days in the fourth year – in order to allow students to work and integrate into the communication and film industry during their studies. As part of the studies, it is possible to specialize in one of the two fields – film or communication – and to choose from a variety of elective courses.
Along with the theoretical classes and workshops, the School of Cinema and Media holds various events throughout the year, Guest lectures, Film screenings, Exhibitions, Film festivals, Artist workshops and Conferences in which the school’s students and Faculty take part.
The School provides a rich and varied selection of professional equipment for students’ use during their studies, and the best technologies and aids. All the equipment is up to date with the latest industry standard, and we renew our equipment every year.
Degree Areas
Film, Media and Education
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Degree Awarded
B.Ed.F.A.
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Training Type
Full-Time
Tuition Fees
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Residents
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Non-Residents
Number of Students
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Applicants (Male/Female/Other)
45
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Enrolled Students (Male/Female/Other)
25
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Students Total (Male/Female/Other)
120
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International Students incl. in Total (Male/Female/Other)
10
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Graduates incl. in Total (Male/Female/Other)
Admission Requirements
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Portfolio & Interview
Yes
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Agreements with Foreign Governments
No information
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High Institution Matriculation
Yes
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Recognized Prior Expertise
No information
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Talent Entrance Exams
Yes
Language of Studies
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Language of Studies
Hebrew and English
Student Practical Work Obligations
Graduation Obligations per Student
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Practical Work
Yes
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Written Thesis
Yes
Budget Parameters
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Total Amount from School`s Budget Allocated to Production Annually
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Average Graduation Practical Work Budget per student
Key Teaching Staff
Meital Abukasis
Head of the Film and Media School in Kibbutzim College. Graduate of the School of Audio and Visual Arts, Sapir College, Has M.A in Visual Anthropology from the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
Abukasis is a Director and filmmaker, which combines filmmaking and research throughout her academic and professional career. Her short film, White Walls (2005), is considered to this day to be one of the turning points in the representation of Mizrahi women in Israeli cinema. It has won prizes in Israel (Best Drama Award, Haifa International Film Festival; Best Film Award, Cinema South Festival) and won the Special Prize for Drama in the 2006 film festival in Seoul, South Korea.
Her documentary Father.land (2015) is a reflexive ethnographic journey to Abukasis hometown of Dimona, Israel, driven by her desire to approach the wall of silence between the city residents and the nearby Nuclear reactor.
Currently, leading the Film and media school in Tel Aviv, she proceeds on developing multidisciplinary social documentary projects alongside teaching and writhing her PhD thesis on Ethnographic Cinema.
Successful Graduates
Ruth Farchi
- Actress
Ruth Farchi (13 August 1927 – 19 April 2021) was an Austrian-born Israeli TV, stage and film actress.
Nisreen Faour
- Actress
Nisreen Faour is a Palestinian actress from the village of Ma’alot-Tarshiha, best known for her role as Muna in the 2009 American film, Amreeka. Faour was born in Ma’alot-Tarshiha, Israel, and moved to the United States to study theater and performance when she was 16.