MISSION

OBJECTIVES

1. To plan and organize the pre-production, production, and post-production phases of a personal short documentary;

2. To understand, critically approach, and define the realm of cinema’s discourse and language, connecting it to non-fiction cinema and documentary filmmaking as a distinct cinematic genre with its own unique expression and identity;

3. To understand the Documentary in its origins and development, recognizing that its distinct identity has been historically built around the ideas of truth and authenticity;

4. To stimulate the development of observational skills and methodological relativization regarding different strategies and cinematic devices present in creative documentary filmmaking;

5. To understand and analyze the artistic, cultural, and political contexts associated with the production of various documentary discourses;

6. To experiment with and develop a personal Documentary project through the practices and methodologies of production, research, and execution associated with the genre.

7. To contextualize the Documentary within cinema history and aesthetic movements;

8. To apply concepts and theories to critical analyses of themes, positioning oneself according to aesthetic, ethical, and political principles;

9. To research and investigate topics from an innovative perspective;

10. To develop and write scripts and treatments for Documentaries;

11. To operate and master minimal technical equipment for image and sound recording;

12. To understand the post-production process, including image and sound treatment;

13. To plan and organize the distribution of documentaries;

14. To critically reflect on professional practices in the audiovisual sector, particularly in documentary filmmaking.

15. To encourage international contact between agents in the film industry involved in education, programming, criticism, historiography, production, post-production, teaching, cinephilia, and filmmaking.