Masters Film Heritage

The Master Program in Film and Audiovisual Heritage offers a unique educational program in Portugal designed to develop knowledge and skills in the field of Film and Audiovisual Heritage. It is tailored for students holding bachelor degrees in various fields, including Communication Sciences, Film and Audiovisual Media, Archival Management, Museology, or related disciplines, enabling the expansion of knowledge from an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective, using diverse approaches and the most recent methodologies. Students will acquire conceptual and practical skills that they can apply in various sectors of the professional market in the field of film and audiovisual heritage. The Department of Cinema and Media Arts (DCAM) has established a partnership with the National Archive of Moving Images (ANIM) for the preservation of the Pontes Collection, a film archive comprising over 400 items in various formats (nitrate, acetate, 16mm, 35mm) and states of preservation. The collection has made it possible to incorporate an invaluable practical component into the curriculum of the master program in Film and Audiovisual Heritage, whose students have already begun the inventory process in a technical room set up for this purpose, under the supervision of faculty and staff at ANIM. Coordination between DCAM and ANIM is handled by Inês Gil and Jacopo Wassermann, who serve as donors of the collection to Lusófona University and as the institutions representatives to ANIM.

Candidates eligible for the master's degree program are as follows: a) Holders of a bachelor's degree or an equivalent legal qualification. b) Holders of a foreign academic degree obtained following a first cycle of studies organized in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process by a state adhering to that process. c) Holders of a foreign higher academic degree recognized as fulfilling the objectives of a bachelor's degree by the competent statutory body. d) Individuals with an educational, scientific, or professional background recognized by the competent statutory body of CUL as demonstrating the capacity to undertake this study cycle.

Teresa Borges - Responsável da Biblioteca e Arquivo fotográfico da Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema Tiago Ganhão - ANIM - Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema Franco Bosco - ANIM - Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema Giovanna Fossati ¿ Utrecht University / Netherlands Kieron Webb ¿ BFI National Archives / UK Céline Ruivo ¿ UC Louvain / Belgium

This 2nd Cycle in Film Heritage focuses on advanced training that allows specialization in the areas of archive management, analogue and digital conservation and restoration (preservation), consultancy and programming of audio-visual collections among other possibilities.

Specialization and post-graduation programs, including 3rd cycle programs referring to PhD studies.

A laboratory¿technical room¿allows students to apply theoretical concepts to the pre-identification and preparation of films from the Pontes collection.

Theoretical classes take place in a seminar format, which allows a comprehensive reflection of the problems to debate and strengthens students' autonomy. This format leads to the attribution of competencies based on reflection and criticism of the presented themes, through the debate oriented around the treated subjects. In the practical-theoretical courses, the practical classes provide the student a contact with different scenarios and praxis in the reality of the professional market, through visits in institutions and laboratories specialized in the area of film heritage. During the academic year, experts in the different fields of the treated themes, national and international, will be regularly invited, enabling new perspectives and sharing their knowledge with a diversity of realities. The classes are taught in Portuguese and English