The brief of Beijing Film Academy

    Beijing Film Academy, founded in 1950s, is the only institution specialized in film in China higher education. Through 60 years' development, it has built up a multidisciplinary and multilevel cultivation system that embraces the entire spectrum of film-making, including production, teaching, creation and research for training advanced film talents. The famous Chinese directors such as ZhangYimou, ChenKaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Jia Zhangke and Gu changwei, to name just a few, all graduated from BFA——the cradle of Chinese film producers.

    Beijing Film Academy stands above more than 100 film schools in the world in its academic structure, school scale, professional direction, the strength of teaching, course design, teaching facilities, artistic creations, the quality of its graduates, the level of teaching and management, as well as the achievements of theoretic research in film. Likewise Beijing Film Academy is the most unique academy in Chinese higher education of arts, the largest in its scale in Asia and a well-known film academy in today’s world. Beijing Film Academy was absorbed by the association of the world's major film and television schools——CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision), as a member university in 1984 and was elected as a council member.

    At present, Beijing Film Academy has 8 departments, 6 schools, plus one graduate student division and one basic education division, which make up totally 16 divisions of teaching. The Academy offers 10 bachelor degree programs (36 disciplines). The academy has a very strong teaching-staff team, which is made of group of well-known professors, scholars and artists, who are enjoying great fame both at home and abroad in the fields of film education, film art creation, and film theory studies. Furthermore, there are several very famous Chinese and Foreign professors and film artists engaging in film education, as well as middle-aged or young core members pioneering ahead in domestic film art education and film theory studies.

    Since its first enrollment of overseas students in the 1950s, Beijing Film Academy has made enormous progress in the education of overseas students. The International School of Beijing Film Academy is responsible for the teaching and administration of overseas students and has established close links with a great number of counterparts from other countries and HK, Taiwan and Macau. The capacity of overseas student enrollment has been increasing each year. The International School provides convenient learning environment and living conditions. There are single rooms and double rooms, both having private bathrooms and shower facilities. Each room has a fridge, air conditioner, dial-through telephone and other amenities. Inside the building there are public kitchens and laundries, classrooms, conference rooms, multi-functional halls and a restaurant.

    Today, BFA is one of Beijing’s 9 influential institutes of higher education for overseas students, and won many times the honor “Advanced Unit in Teaching and Management of Overseas Students in Beijing”.