From May to October of this year, script consultant Franz Rodenkirchen will be Artist in Residence at the Netherlands Film Academy and its master’s department. In that period he will conduct research into the challenges that face traditional script writing. Kick-off for the residency is a public lecture Rodenkirchen will give on May 7, from 19.30 – 21.30 at the Film Academy, under the title ‘Different times, different scripts. Or: how can we write cinema’. This lecture is part of the Master of Film Lecture Series, held every other Tuesday.

Every other Tuesday night the Master Film invites guests to come and give a lecture. Speakers can be film makers, visual artists, composers but also philosophers, scientists or film theoreticians. The spring/summer programme includes lectures by: Ibrahim Quraishi, Renzo Martens, Patricia Pisters and Dan Geesin. [more]

Three Master Film students talk about their graduation projects: Pedro Collantes de Teran Bayonas, Claire van der Poel and Sonja Wyss.

From 26 - 29 June 2013 our graduating master students will be presenting their work in EYE. The Master Film Graduation Show is part of the Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival (26 June - 5 July 2013).

We asked the ten new students that started the Master’s Degree Programme 2013-2015 in January to share some of their impressions of International Film Festival Rotterdam with us. Here are some of their stories.

As part of the Artist in Residency programme of Eyal Sivan, a group of students from the Master Film produced 'Revisit', a short film that was shown at the presentation Sivan gave as a conclusion to his residency under the title 'Framing Perpetrators'.

Our alumni: how are they doing? In September 2011, Bogomir Doringer graduated cum laude from the Master Film. Since then, his graduation project 'Hospitality' has been shown in Amsterdam, Oldenburg, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Singapore and Switzerland. Most recently, 'Hospitality' was shown in the G12 HUB Gallery in Belgrade from 28 January - 15 February 2013.

Our alumni: how are they doing? Reinier Noordzij, one of the first Master Film alumni who graduated in 2011, tells us about his project 'EDWIN' and what else he has been up to.

a proposal presentation event by Eyal Sivan in collaboration with students of the master’s programme. Structured around the format of ‘the proposal’ this event concludes Sivan’s presence as Artist in Residence at the Filmacademy. 8 February 2013 at Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam [more]

In December 2012, Ginta Tinte Vasermane graduated from the Master of Film with an exhibition of five video works. The location was an old garage in Amsterdam, transformed into an exhibition space, Service Garage.