The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon
inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the same establishment since 1971. The main goal of the Lisbon Theatre and Film School is training in the fields of Theatre and Cinema. Sometimes it is still referred to by its former designation "Conservatório Nacional". It is a public institution of higher education created in Lisbon but now located in Amadora, Portugal.
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History
The Lisbon Theatre and Film School was set up in Lisbon by Decree-Law nr. 310/83, dated July 1 (1983). The object of this legal document was to reconvert the National Conservatoire (Conservatório Nacional), the establishment of artistic education, and the setting up of several new establishments offering degrees in the same artistic areas as the Conservatório, among which this school, specifically directed at theatre and film education.
Theatre Education had a long tradition in the National Conservatoire: it went back to the date of its creation in 1836, by Decree of Queen Maria II, in the scope of a Plan for the foundation and organisation of a National Theatre proposed by João Baptista de Almeida Garrett, then still called Conservatório Geral de Arte Dramática and formed by three Schools: Escola Dramática ou de Declamação for drama education, Escola de Música for music education (integrating the former Conservatório de Música, set up in Casa Pia by Decree of 1835) and Escola de Dança, Mímica e Ginástica Especial for dance, mime arts and especial gymnastics education.
By later reforms, the name of the CNational Conservatoire was changed, first to Conservatório Real de Lisboa and then, already under the new republican regime, to Conservatório Nacional, the name of the Escola Dramática ou de Declamação being altered to Escola de Arte de Representar.
On July 4, 1914, the School of Art of Acting (Escola de Arte de Representar) was for the first time granted management autonomy.
By Decree dated May 19, 1914, the scenography and setting design degree was set up in this school (to be taught “in the big paintings room of the National Theatre Almeida Garrett which, functioning under the Escola de Arte de Representar”, would exclusively “be at the service andpractices of the corresponding teacher”); by Decree of August 6, 1914, the costume designer degree was also set up.
As for Film Education, the corresponding degree was only set up in National Conservatoire after 1971, on a pedagogic experimental basis, in the scope of the reform process undertaken by Madalena Perdigão, in the time of Minister Veiga Simão.
Courses
Graduation in Theatre: Acting, Set & Costume Design, Production Management.
Graduation in Cinema: Screenwriting, Production, Direction, Cinematography, Sound, Editing.
Master in Theatre: Performative Arts (Writing for the Stage, Acting, Theatre of Movement, Theatre-Music), Set & Costume Design, Directing, Production Management, Theatre & Community.
Master in Film Project Development: Dramaturgy and Directing, Cinematic Narrative, Post-Production Technology.
The Students
Among students who have studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School are name like:
Theatre
Alexandra Lencastre
André e. Teodósio
Catarina Wallenstein
Diogo Infante
Elmano Sancho
Eunice Muñoz
Hana Sofia Lopes
Nuno Lopes
Rita Blanco
Ruy de Carvalho
Sílvia Alberto
Teresa Tavares
Film
David Fonseca
Edgar Pêra
Joaquim Leitão
Joaquim Sapinho
João Botelho
João Pedro Rodrigues
João Salaviza
Manuel Mozos
Manuela Viegas
Marco Martins
Miguel Gomes
Pedro Costa
Rui Reininho
Vítor Gonçalves
Susana de Sousa Dias
Teaching Staff
Among the teachers who taught at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School are name like:
Theatre
Anna Paula
António Casimiro
Glória de Matos
Guilherme Filipe
João Mota
Jorge Listopad
José Carlos Barros
José Peixoto
Margarida de Abreu
Mário Barradas
Rogério de Carvalho
Rui Mendes
Film
In the past:
António Reis
Alberto Seixas Santos
Paulo Rocha
Fernando Lopes
In the present:
Vítor Gonçalves
Joaquim Sapinho
Manuela Viegas
The Presidents / Directors
As Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema):
2012-... - António Lagarto
2011 - Carlos J. Pessoa
2007-2010 - Filipe Oliveira
2004-2006 - Paulo Morais Alexandre
2001-2003 - Daniel del-Negro
1998-2000 - João Mota
1995-1997 - Filipe Oliveira (Conselho Diretivo)
1983-1995 - Jorge Listopad and José Bogalheiro
As Conservatoire (Conservatório):
1978-1983 - Luís Casanovas, Viegas Tavares and Luís Oliveira Nunes
1972-1978 - Lúcio Mendes
1938-1971 - Manuel Ivo Cruz
1930-1937 - Júlio Dantas
1918-1938 - Vianna da Motta
1898-1917 - Eduardo Schwalbach Lucci
1878-1898 - Luís Augusto Palmeirim
1870-1878 - Duarte de Sá
1848-1869 - Joaquim Pedro Quintela
1842-1848 - António Pereira dos Reis and José Trasimundo Mascarenhas Barreto
Management Bodies
(2012-2014)
President - António Lagarto
Director of the Department of Theatre - Álvaro Correia
Director of the Department of Film - José Bogalheiro
President of Technical & Scientific Council - João Maria Mendes
President of the Pedagogical Council - Francisco Salgado
President of the Council of Representatives - Filipe Oliveira
International relations
The Lisbon Theatre and Film School is affiliated to:
the ITI - International Theatre Institute / UNESCO Chair,
the ELIA – European League of Institutes of the Arts
the CILECT – Centre International de Liaison des Écoles de Cinéma et Télévision.