The UPFI’s academic programs aim to contribute to the development of genuinely Filipino national cinema by producing graduates with a well-rounded liberal arts education as well as creative and technical skills and a keen sense of social responsibility. It seeks to instill increased professionalization in Philippine film practice and upgrade local film scholarship.
Founded in 1984, the BA Film program remains at the forefront of film education in the country that offers a holistic approach to the art and scholarship of cinema. It aims to contribute to the development and enrichment of Philippine national cinema by producing graduates with a well-rounded liberal arts education complemented by the cultivation of creative and technical skills and a keen sense of social responsibility.
The BA Film program, which started in 1984, is still the only one in the Philippines that offers a holistic approach to the art and scholarship of film. Leaders in the local mainstream film and media, advertising, television, public information and relations, and corporate communications are graduates of this program.
The MA Media Studies - Film Program, started in 2004, focuses on the study of film vis-á-vis the increasingly urgent issues of globalization and new media technologies, as it provides Filipino scholars with a means of closely inspecting and evaluating film as a complex social, cultural and economic phenomenon.
First offered in 2004, the MA Media Studies - Film Program seeks to instill increased professionalization in Philippine film practice and upgrade local film scholarship. It provides graduate students the necessary knowledge and methodologies for evaluating cinema as a complex social, cultural, and industrial phenomenon. The program’s courses operate on the principle of praxis, in which theory courses are enriched by the possibilities of real-life applications, and production courses draw from and return to philosophical and critical issues in the conception and evaluation of cinema.
