Educational Tracks
In the middle of the 1990s, after its first students met the challenge of becoming absorbed into the industry, the school identified the need for intensifying the professional skills of its many students who wished to work as directors. As a result, the period of curriculum study was extended from three and a half years to four and a half, a time- frame enabling students to glean further experience. The test of student acceptance into the Israeli industry led to the realization that there were a relatively limited number of screenwriters who weren’t directors, as well as a very small number of entrepreneur producers in the fields of film and television.
In 1999, the school began a two-year track for screenwriters, with the aim of creating a model for cooperation between screenwriters and directors, and with a specialization in writing for television. The Screenwriting Track is supported by the Sam Spiegel Foundation and the Beracha Foundation.
In 2004, the school inaugurated a three-and-a-half year track for entrepreneur producers. The first of its kind in Israel, the program was created to prepare producers to initiate and lead projects in different media, work in cooperation with screenwriters and directors, and navigate the project through the stage of marketing and distribution in Israel and overseas. The Entrepreneur Producer Track is supported by the Rayne Foundation, the Beracha Foundation and the Sam Spiegel Foundation.
Each of the three tracks operates autonomously. The school aims for its students to reach a synergy of the tracks, leading to future cooperation beyond the school framework, based on it guiding principles and spirit.
On December 2008 the school launched a new school wing consisting of two cinema halls. The main hall seats 80 audiences and the smaller hall seats 40. Both have an advanced high definition screening and sound systems. This new wing was built with the support of The Sam Spiegel Foundation (U.S.A.), the Ostrovsky Family Fund (France) and Beracha Foundation (Israel).
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