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   The third edition of ESRA's 48H took place last weekend. 56 films were submitted on Sunday evening. This year, a team of alumni also took part out of competition. The competition, organized by the students of the Cinéfestival Association, aims to...

Nicolas ALTMAYER has been one of the leading producers of French cinema for some twenty years. In partnership with his brother Eric at Mandarin Films, he initially produced comedies, working on several occasions with Fabien ONTENIENTE, James HUTH, Michel...

Pierre RICHARD was received at ESRA as he should have been, with fervor. The amphitheatre was as full as it had rarely been. It's likely that our guest appreciated this welcome, showing himself to be perfectly available and willing to listen. Questions and answers...

The DESRA and DESTS degree award ceremonies for the Class of 2014 took place on December 18, 2014. The sponsor of the ESRA Class of 2014 was Pascal ROGARD, Managing Director of SACD. After the screening of the best film of the Class of 2014 "Krakovski...

Yesterday, at the Pathé Masséna cinema in Nice, ESRA Côte d'Azur students took part in a Master Class with school alumni who worked on the set of Woody ALLEN's latest film, Magic in the Moonlight. After the screening of the film, shot...

  The DESFA degree award ceremony for the Class of 2014 took place on December 11, 2014 at the Jean Renoir Amphitheatre. This class was sponsored by Christian PFOHL, director (notably of the series "Les Lardux" and "Les Baisers", founder and...

Cédric KAHN is no child of the ball, admitting that he only became a cinephile late in life and that making films was never an obvious choice for him. But that doesn't stop him from being particularly happy in this profession. More than technique, the...

On Friday November 14, 3rd year ESRA and Sup'Infograph students attended a day-long seminar with Michael O'NEILL, organized with ADOBE. With a number of practical case studies, the day introduced students to the workflows used in...

Emmanuelle BERCOT admits that she entered the Fémis by chance, which is not to say that she didn't work hard to get in. She wasn't a classic cinephile, and it was only gradually that her cinematic culture was...

Guillaume SCHIFFMAN is the third cinematographer to come to Les Jeudis, after Gérard DE BATTISTA and Laurent DAILLAND. The son of Suzanne SCHIFFMAN, François TRUFFAUT's right-hand woman, Guillaume SCHIFFMAN looks back on his youth at the heart of cinema, in...

  Awards and new festival selections: - Le baiser de la mort (film Sup'Infograph Bretagne 2013) won the Prix du Jeune Public at the Court-Métrange festival held in Rennes from October 16 to 19. - Le baiser de la mort, by Cécile FOLOPE (Sup'Infograph...

  Starting tomorrow, Tuesday October 28, ESRA is offering a new feature, "La Critique de la Semaine". In partnership with Avant Scène Cinéma, we have selected a selection of films for students at ESRA, ISTS and Sup'Infograph, and more generally for all those...

Anne LE NY is a graduate of the Conservatoire. She spent a great deal of time on stage before embarking on a successful career in film, mainly in supporting roles. So it was natural for her to talk to the ESRA students about acting...

Yesterday, October 16, ESRA launched the 12th season of Jeudis de l'ESRA by welcoming director Thierry KLIFA to its Jean RENOIR amphitheater after the screening of his film "Les yeux de sa mère". Thierry KLIFA spoke at length about his love of...

  New festival selections: - Akan, Sup'Infograph Paris 2014 film, has been selected to be screened out of competition at the Festival du Premier Court-Métrage de Pontault, which runs from October 10 to 12 at the Apollo cinema. - The film is also...

ESRA launches collaboration with Youtube. ESRA is teaming up with Youtube to develop a course in content creation for the web, and to distribute it both to its students and to France's leading YouTubers, the creators of...

  As part of a European exchange organized by the Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse (OFAJ), ESRA Bretagne welcomed, between September 8 and 12, 2014, 4 German students from the "Folkwang Universität der Künste" and 4 Macedonian students from the "ESRA...

Three prizes were won by ESRA films at the International Short Film Festival for Young Talents, held in Paris from July 15 to 19: - Special Jury Prize: Schisme by Yanis HAMNANE (ESRA 2013)- Best Performance Prize:...

To encourage exchanges between alumni of the ESRA Group (ESRA, ISTS, Sup'Infograph, Mastères, Formation Continue in Paris, Nice and Rennes), the agesra.com alumni website has become the ESRA Group's private social network: ESRA PRO. Students, alumni and...

  At his ESRA Thursday event, Jean-François STEVENIN talked about his long career in the service of his passion for cinema. As a student at the HEC business school, he was lucky enough to meet François TRUFFAUT. What followed was a long and fruitful...

  Jean-Pierre DARROUSSIN is the second comedian to attend the Jeudis de l'ESRA, after François BERLEAND a few years ago. This gave him the opportunity to talk about the actor's work and his relationship with directors from a different angle...

On February 13, Guillaume LAURANT accepted the invitation of Les Jeudis de l'ESRA. He is the fourth screenwriter to visit us, after Michel ALEXANDRE, Olivier DAZAT and Gilles TAURAND. Guillaume LAURANT has followed a self-taught path, saying he learned the...