Baltic Film and Media School has a new home for the students!

Tallinn University opened the new Nova building which is now for almost one month a home for Baltic Film and Media School (BFM). The school is one of the most international section of the university and now all BFM students can study in the city centre in the Tallinn University campus.

Professor Tiit Land, Rector of Tallinn University and Katrin Saks, Director of the Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School, together with the film professors and lecturers opened the new building. The new building will accommodate the Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School, which has suffered from a lack of space for a number of years. It also houses the Department of Animation of the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Estonian Digital Centre.

The Nova building is one the most contemporary and international film and media centres in Europe; the premises provide all the equipment necessary for students who are studying film-making as well as facilities for professionals involved in new film production.

The new building was named “Nova” by students of the Baltic Film and Media School; Mariann Volkonski, Andri Peetso, Kadri Suislep and Taavi Immato. The name reflects the contemporary vision of the school but also represents innovation and development. Katrin Saks, the Director of the Baltic Film and Media School, hopes that people studying and working in the Nova building will reflect this contemporary vision in their activities – even when the building itself eventually becomes an object of heritage protection.

The building has five floors and is about 4600 square metres. There are individual and group work stations, auditoriums and seminar rooms, a film pavilion, television studio, sound studio, rooms for sound and light, a cinema facility with room for 108 visitors, a depository for film equipment, rooms for make-up and costumes, a computer lab and a library. The ground floor will house a cafeteria and the fifth floor will provide an area for resting and reading. The space in front of the building can be used as an outside cinema and a location for concerts in the summer.

The cost of the building was 6.9 million Euros, of which 4.7 million Euros was contributed by the University and 2.2 million Euros was provided from the European Social Fund.

The Baltic Film and Media School was founded in 2005. It is the only university college in Northern Europe that teaches film art, audio-visual media and cross-media production in English. The learning environment in the Baltic Film and Media school is multicultural. Over 400 students are enrolled in classes and 65 of these students come from 25 different foreign countries.

With its move into the new Nova building, the Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School will celebrate the anniversary of 20 years since the beginning of Film Studies and 15 years since the beginning of the Audio-Visual Media curriculum.
Tallinn University was established in 2005, merging several universities and research institutes in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The university is the fastest-growing in the country, strong in social sciences and humanities and rapidly-developing in natural sciences.

More information:
PHOTOS OF THE NEW SCHOOL:
www.studyinestonia.ee/news/243-novabuilding
Baltic Film and Media School
www.bfm.ee
Tallinn University new videos in six languages
www.studyinestonia.ee/news/214-tallinn-university-new-videos-in-six-languages

31 Oct 2012