“1ST EDITION OF THE
UNIVERSITY MASTER’S DEGREE IN FILM-ACTING”
Performing in the
21st Century with the support of a degree in film acting; a modern,
practical and useful training to help face the realities of an International
career.
Madrid, 20th November 2013
The first team Foundation, in collaboration with the
University Rey Juan Carlos, presents the 4th edition of the University Master’s
Degree in Film-Acting. The course is directed at film and TV actors who want a
University standard of training that will provide them with the adequate tools
needed to develop their own technique, to manage their career in a professional
manner and to take full advantage of their creative potential.
The pre-registration period begun November 3rd, 2013 - January 12th, 2014 and the Master year course starts February 3rd, 2014 and ends September 30th, 2014.
Although it is the First Edition of the Master’s
Degree, it is the fourth year that the programme has been running at the first
team center in Madrid. The aim of the course is: to ensure that the actor’s
training is combined with the needs and requirements of the rest of the
creative team on set, to achieve a high technical and artistic quality whilst
performing in front of the camera, to provide the tools needed to be successful
as a professional actor, to learn to manage your own career and to accomplish
visibility and a sense of presence at castings, amongst others.
The Master’s Degree is divided into four different
content areas including: On-camera acting, audiovisual language, audiovisual
technology and the audiovisual market. The majority of classes on the course
are practical and conducted by prestigious professionals from the sector.
QUALITY, INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALISM
Created in 1999 by International actors, the first team School is a training center
that aims to globally integrate all professionals from the Spanish audiovisual
sector into the creation, production, and distribution, as well as the
exhibition process of any type of audiovisual work. Therefore, the founders
have developed pioneering programmes, based in principles of quality, attitudes
and innovative techniques. Over the last 13 years, more than 1.800 students and
filmmakers, across six different countries and 23 cities, have received
training from first team.
For 3 years first
team, in collaboration with the University
Rey Juan Carlos, has offered the first and only specialist university course
in film-acting, which this year has become the first Master’s Degree in Film-Acting.
More than 20 businesses and institutions have
supported and validated first team’s labour, amongst them the Ministry of
Culture, the Community of Madrid, the Audiovisual Cluster and the Caixa.
First team Foundation is a pioneering foundation.
Actors Assumpta Serna and Scott Cleverdon created the
first team International Foundation for film and audiovisual training. The HQ
is based in Madrid and its subsidiary is centered in Buenos Aires. The
Foundation is a non-profit organization, a pioneering corporation, an
international reference model and a professional center that offers an
innovative system for teaching on-camera acting: Film-Acting Course (ICFT).
With a clear social and
international vocation, the first team Foundation has several principal
objectives: to encourage the education of film and TV professionals, to improve
the audiovisual industry by implementing a practical study of relevant knowledge
for audiovisual communicators, to aid their insertion into the international
market and to change society’s perception of the actor in society, dignifying
the profession and limiting professional infiltration.
For more information about the course, contact: email: escuela@fundacionfirstteam.org
tel: +34 629905504
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Marién Piniés