Film and Television Directing:
Film and Television Directing is a study program within the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Prishtina. Initially, this program mixed Film and Theater Directing for two years, and then the student had the right to choose for the next two years if he/she wanted to continue with Film Directing or Theater Directing. Since 2000 these two programs have been divided into film and Television Directing and Theater Directing. For more than two decades of our existence as a Film and Television Directing program, we have produced more than 450 short, experimental, and documentary films. Each year we admit 6-8 students, most of them from Kosovo, but there are students from neighboring countries such as Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro. Curriculum:
1st year:
Film language, grammar
Storyboarding
Short up to 5 minutes film with no dialogue (Task framing)
Short up to 5 minutes film with dialogue (Framing as per film grammar and dialogue lines)
2nd year
Film language
Cinematic storytelling
Short film up to 10 minutes (3-rd semester) Composition task
Short film up to 10 minutes (4th semester) composition, working with actors, dialogue lines
3rd year
Cinematic storytelling and film as multimedia
Short film up to 15 minutes (5th semester)
Short film up to 15 minutes (6th semester) Adopted book for a film
Documentary film up to 30 minutes
1-minute short experimental film
4th year
Graduated film up to 30 minutes
Film festivals
UPward established by Hazir Haziri & Ismet Sijarina
Skena Up (Student film festival, established by the Faculty of arts and initiated by ex-students Arben Zharku, Arian Krasniqi, Zana Hoxha, and Fatmir Saphiu)
Ura me tri harqe (Mini festival that includes three faculties of the region (Kosovo-Albania and Macedonia)
Festivals that agreed to promote our film school and our students. DokuFEST
Nine ELEVEN
Prifilm FEST
Durres summer film fest-Albania