Our philosophy stems from a simple premise: cinema is a conversation, and a desire.
A conversation between the viewer and the viewer, between silence and movement, between technique and emotion, between what one wants to tell and what ultimately is told.
The desire to tell, the desire of those who want to see, feel, and hear. To desire, from an artistic perspective, is to want and need to share a story and for the world to want to see it.
That's why at the ECPV we don't just teach how to operate a camera or design a character; we teach how to think.
To think in images.
To think in rhythms.
To think about what it means to create and share a story.
Our philosophy rests on three fundamental pillars:
1. Community
We believe that true learning happens in relationships: between students, between departments, between generations.
We are not a mass school; we are a creative community where support is close and dialogue is constant.
2. Practice
To film is to make mistakes. To make mistakes is to discover.
At ECPV, you learn by making films, facing decisions, managing shoots, and understanding the real-time demands of a production.
3. Perspective
Technique is learned. Sensitivity is awakened.
We want each student to find their voice, their aesthetic, their way of seeing the world.
We don't seek uniformity: we seek authenticity.
Our philosophy is the foundation of everything we do: to train filmmakers who believe, who question, and who build community.
This form of teaching and philosophy has led the ECPV to have among its students people from more than a dozen countries.
Turning the ECPV into a meeting point for creators and artists from all over the world.
All this helps to continue improving and consolidating the ECPV in the belief that we all have a story to tell and that each story offers endless possibilities.
