Qingdao Film Academy is located on the beautiful golden sand beach of Qingdao West Coast New District. Since its birth, it has been born for the development of the film and television industry. Its predecessor was the Modern Creative Media School of Beijing Film Academy (the only independent college of Beijing Film Academy) established in 2011.
On May 31, 2021, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the School of Modern Creative Media of Beijing Film Academy was successfully transferred to Qingdao Film Academy. It was wholly-owned by Qingdao Haifa Group and became the only film academy named by the city in Qingdao. On October 15, 2021, the opening ceremony of Qingdao Film Academy will be held at the Qingdao Film and Television Expo.
Qingdao Film Academy is currently the only undergraduate film college in China except for Beijing Film Academy. The school has 8 teaching departments, including literature department and director department, 1 basic teaching department, 1 international education college and a film and television creation center. It has formed a film and television art center, covering 4 university disciplines such as art and management. , The situation of coordinated development of multi-disciplinary and multi-professional teachers. The school currently has 23 undergraduate majors, including a provincial-level first-class discipline and major construction site, six undergraduate majors with superior characteristics of the school, and more than 2,300 students.
At present, the school has trained seven graduates. They have completed more than 300 joint graduation assignments. Their works have won numerous awards at home and abroad, and have been highly praised by experts and scholars at home and abroad. The school ranks among the top three private universities in the “2021 Alumni Association China Program”, ranks among the top 20 private universities in the country, and has been rated as a 5-star Chinese first-class private university. It has become more prominent among the existing domestic film academies. Next year, five new undergraduate majors will be established. On the basis of expanding and strengthening undergraduate education, we will strive for master's degree awarding points and increase graduate-level enrollment.
Disciplinary construction insists on film characteristics
The college has 8 teaching departments and 1 basic teaching department, including the Department of Literature, the Department of Directing, the Department of Performance, the Department of Photography Art and Technology, the Department of Recording Art and Technology, the Department of Visual Art, the Department of Animation Art, and the Department of Media Management. This undergraduate major focuses on art, involving four disciplines: art, management, law, and literature. Among them, the major of film and television photography and production will be selected as the first-class undergraduate major construction site in Shandong in 2020.
The quality of the teaching staff continues to increase
Qingdao Film Academy has a strong team of teachers who integrate teaching, scientific research, and creative practice. Up to now, the school has a total of 164 full-time teachers and more than 90 external teachers. The student-teacher ratio is 10.23:1. Among them, there are high-ranking experts and scholars in the film and television industry of the older generation, as well as young backbone teachers who are emerging. The department heads and subject leaders are all senior professors from the Beijing Film Academy, and a large number of well-known experts and scholars in the field of film and television art serve as visiting professors or hold master classes at Qingdao Film Academy, such as: famous contemporary writer and well-known Chinese film and television screenwriter Liang Xiaosheng Mr., the art director of "Out of Amazon", the winner of the 22nd China Film Golden Rooster Award, the art director of "Wolf Totem", the winner of the 30th China Film Golden Rooster Award, and a member of the jury of the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award Mr. Quan Rongzhe, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Animation Association, initiator and person in charge of the Asian Youth Animation Competition, and internationally renowned film and animation research expert Professor John Landt, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bona Pictures, Mr. Yu Dong, Beijing Film Academy Professor Ji Wei, a well-known expert and senior producer, provides students with the best quality teaching feast.
Teaching conditions continue to improve
The school has continuously increased its investment in teaching funds, effectively improving teaching conditions and improving teaching quality. In order to help students innovate and practice, the school invests tens of millions of yuan every year to purchase teaching and scientific research equipment, the existing Autodesk smoke film and television post-editing system, Autodesk flame film and television post-production special effects production system, Autodesk lustre film and television post-production color correction system, Barker 3d projection system, Dolby 3d cinema system, Quantum stornext SAN storage system, animation rendering system, CLOUD cloud storage system, ARRI film digital interconversion system, DVS Clipster digital letter board production system and other first-class teaching and research equipment for students A high-end teaching practice platform. At present, the school's teaching and research equipment exceeds 160 million yuan, ranking among the forefront of the investment in teaching and research equipment per student in private colleges and universities across the country.
Talent training goals are clear and accurate
Qingdao Film Academy has always been committed to cultivating composite and applied film and television art talents, encouraging students to practice innovation, and many students’ works have emerged on the international stage, winning the Best Director Award at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, and the Best Short Film Award in New York Independent Film. Shortlisted for the Cannes International Film Festival’s short film corner unit; up to this year, 7 graduates have been trained for the industry, and the employment rate of previous graduates is over 92%, ranking among the best in domestic art colleges, and the employment rate is increasing year by year. A group of outstanding alumni who are employed in well-known film and television institutions such as Alibaba Pictures and Wanda Cinemas and well-known media such as CCTV, local TV stations and radio stations have emerged.
External cooperation and exchanges continue to expand
The school actively expands international exchanges and cooperation, and has successively cooperated with many well-known overseas universities in more than a dozen countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, France, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Thailand, Macau, and Hong Kong. Establish inter-school partnerships. The overseas cooperative colleges and universities are all well-known colleges in the field of film and television arts in the world, and the number and level of cooperative colleges ranks in the forefront of similar domestic colleges. By cooperating with foreign colleges and universities in various types of projects, such as inter-school exchanges, short-term exchange students, undergraduate and master-doctoral joint training, we will build platforms for teachers and students to study abroad, academic exchanges, and professional practice.
The employment rate of graduates has steadily increased
The school leaders attach great importance to the employment of graduates. By actively building multi-level employment platforms and holding seminars on enhancing employability, they create a strong atmosphere of active employment and bold entrepreneurship, and promote higher-quality and broader employment and entrepreneurship for graduates. . The school has now delivered more than 3,000 graduates for the industry for 7 years. The average employment rate of previous graduates is over 92%, ranking among the best in domestic art colleges, and the employment rate is increasing year by year. Most of the graduates are active in the fields of film and television, media, and culture. There are not only frontline personnel involved in the creation of the film crew, but also behind-the-scenes workers in the early and late stages of filming, as well as in well-known film and television institutions such as Alibaba Pictures and Wanda Cinemas. Excellent alumni who are employed by well-known media such as China Central Television and Provincial Television.
Students' excellent works have won awards
The innovative teaching projects of "Friday Creation Day" and "Graduation Joint Assignment" of Qingdao Film Academy are important manifestations of the school's school-running philosophy and guiding ideology. Both "Friday Creation Day" and "Graduation Joint Assignment" require students to freely combine across departments and majors, and jointly shoot a film and television art work in a teamwork manner. The process of shooting works is a process of fully applying the professional knowledge and skills learned to practical creation, and a process of testing what I have learned in practice. The school invests more than 2 million yuan every year to support graduates to shoot joint graduation assignments, select outstanding works every year, and hold a grand "Golden Elephant Award" award ceremony. The strong support of the school has vigorously activated the atmosphere of innovation and practice of teachers and students. The film and television works shot by students have repeatedly achieved good results in various professional competitions and exchange activities at home and abroad. In addition to winning various domestic college student film festivals, short film festivals, international film festivals, and micro film competitions, the student works also won the Best Director Award at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, and the Best Short Film Award in New York Independent Film. The short film "Forever & Always" shot by Yang Yitao, a 2016 graduate, was nominated for the short film corner of the 2018 Cannes International Film Festival in France. Up to now, the total number of awards for student works has reached more than 180.
Integration of production and education to improve the level
After the transfer of the college, the Qingdao Municipal State-owned Enterprise Haifa Group became the sole organizer of the college. Haifa Group undertakes the important task of developing the film and television cultural industry sector, building a film and television cultural industry cluster, improving the construction of the education chain, the talent chain, and the innovation chain, and promoting the organic connection and coordinated development of industry, education, talent, and innovation resources. The college has the injection of Haifa Group, which is conducive to fully integrating the elements of film and television cultural resources in the city, the province and the whole country, and deepening the development of school-enterprise cooperation and the integration of production and education. The college will take the initiative to establish strategic partnerships with well-known regional film and television companies, and jointly establish school-enterprise cooperation majors; go deep into film and television production bases, film and television shooting bases, and film crews to explore the talent, intelligence, technology, capital, and capital of film and television education and industrial systems. The agglomeration and integration of management and other resource elements and complementary advantages create a new engine that supports the high-quality development of the regional film and television industry.
In the future, Qingdao Film Academy will closely focus on the call of the party and the state on "improving cultural soft power and perfecting the modern cultural industry system", seize opportunities for the conversion of new and old kinetic energy in Shandong Province, vigorously develop the film and television industry, and closely integrate the supply of the regional film and television industry chain. To meet the needs of chain improvement and development, plan the discipline and professional layout, innovate the talent training model, break through the shortcomings of film and television talents, and continue to promote the development of integration of industry and education, and the integrated development of industry, education and research. With the strong support of the organizer’s actual controller, Renhaifa Group, it will coordinate with the existing film and television industry resources such as Oriental Film Metropolis, China Radio and Television Qingdao 5G High-tech Video Experimental Park, and Cangmashan Film and Television Base, etc. The regional film and television industry ecosystem, with technology as the core and talents as the support, serves the development and prosperity of the film and television cultural industry in Qingdao and Shandong Province.