Budapest Film Academy’s fusion with ELTE, a high-level, “ivy-league” University www.budapestfilmacademy.com Filmmaking is increasingly turning global.
Budapest Film Academy (BFA) and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have joined forces and launched an English and Hungarian language film academy in Budapest. Our program: practical film studies to students who would like to become industry professionals. The founder of BFA, Jenő Hodi, received his Master’s degree in film at Columbia University, New York, under the guidance of Milos Forman and Brian
De Palma. After graduation, he worked as writer, director and producer in the US and Western Europe for many years. Budapest Film Academy offers film training with a global perspective, in line with ELTE’s academic system, accreditation and other requirements. Students from Hungary and all over the world study to earn ELTE’s new, empirical filmmaker degree. BFA/ELTE works closely with higher education institutions abroad, film- and post-production studios, production equipment rental companies, production offices, as well as with international and local distributors. The academy’s faculty is ideally made up of highly qualified academic scholars and award winners of the film industry, who lend not only their knowledge, but their networking to students. The most gifted students soar under the mentorship of foreign and local professionals with extensive professional background. The Academy also facilitates semester-long exchange programs with our partner institutions in abroad and in Hungary. BFA offers additional practical classes towards ELTE’s Bachelor Degree, and together with ELTE has a Master’s Degree program which includes the following modules: directing, screenwriting, producing, cinematography, editing, and sound engineering. ELTE’s curriculum of film analysis, film history, genre theory, and aesthetics is wonderfully complimented by Budapest Film Academy’s practical courses. The Academy also aims to give insight into film financing and co-productions. Our brand is to treat filmmaking as not only a form of art, but as a business. In addition to the joint program of BFA and ELTE, every semester we invite one of the world-famed masters of cinema to teach a special, creative filmmaking workshop. The best film schools have accepted this fact, and have learned to adapt. Graduates of Budapest Film Academy will commence their professional career with a competitive edge, in their field of specialty and in other areas of filmmaking too. More information: www.budapestfilmacademy.com
