CISA (International Academy of Audiovisual Sciences)
based in Locarno, founded by Pio Bordoni in 1992,
is a training Institute in the field of cinema,
television and multimedia culture,
oriented towards the students' development with the aim of improving their inclinations,
talents and skills.
Students are immersed in creative settings, where teamwork is valued, with an eminently practical planning guidance.
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On Saturday, November 30, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., CISA will open its doors and present its educational programs. Come and discover our film school! PalaCinema Locarno - Sala 3.
Free admission. Reservation required.
Thursday, October 24, at 6 p.m., in movie theatre 3 of the PalaCinema Locarno, CISA will host a Masterclass with Klaudia Reynicke, the award-winning Swiss-Peruvian director.
Reynicke will present her new film "Reinas" (2024), inspired by her life and winner of international awards, with a screening at the end of the Masterclass.
Admission is free while seats are filled.
CISA is very pleased to invite you to an evening Masterclass with Carlo Chatrian, former Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival and the Berlinale and newly appointed Director of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin.
The Masterclass, dedicated to CISA students and open to the public, will focus on the role of international film festivals within the film industry. It will explore the dynamics of the contemporary film system, the opportunities available to young professionals and the logic behind the selection and distribution of films.
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 6:00 p.m., PalaCinema Locarno, CISA Classroom 4.
The Masterclass will be conducted in Italian.
Free admission until seats are filled.
Designers in Visual Design (Film) prepare,
plan and develop narrative or communication productions,
besides designing and realizing multimedia products.
Upon completion of the PET College,
they are able to handle all phases of production and develop an entire and complex project, either solo or in a team.
They can also concentrate on a specific stage in such a process.
They collaborate with professionals in marketing, video programming, photography, and with television and film productions.
Theory
The Elements of Perception
View and Thought
Light: Looking and Seeing
Sound: Hearing and Listening
Image: Creating a Meaning
The Divided Body of the Actor
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Practice
The Instruments of Cinema
New Media
Practice in Cinematography
Sound Recording
Sound
Practice in Editing
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Theory
History and Critique of Cinema
Documentary Film
Investigative Reports for TV Press
Live Sports, Music and Public Events
Other Television Genres
New Film Forms
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Practice
Projection and Visualization
Realizing a Documentary
Live Television
News and Entertainment
Video Art
Individual Short Films
Realizing Fiction
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Il cinema è il modo più diretto per entrare in competizione con Dio. Federico Fellini
The Filmmaker is a professional freelancer who works in the Film/TV field.
New technologies in recent years enable a whole range of diverse professional capacities to be combined in one person.
Filmmakers become therefore experts in screenwriting, film direction, cinematography and camera, production, sound design, editing and/or post-production: they also have to specialize in at least one of these branches.
Finally they become able to utilize the latest technologies, from HD to editing software, to produce documentaries, music videos, short fictions and multimedia contents.
This is a key function, requiring practical knowledge of all the various filmmaking crafts and close collaboration with the director and others in the team and/or on set. The producer deals with devising contracts, guarantees a production’s financial liability...
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The director is responsible, in artistic and technical terms, for the final outcome of a professionally made film, television programme or other audio-visual productions. He directs the cast’s performance, chooses camera angles and framing in the interests of narrative clarity and resolution, and follows through on preparation for the various phases of production.
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The screenwriter develops the idea, the story, the outline, treatment and the script to provide a basis for the audio- visual presentation of the story. This is the person who writes the film before it has been shot!
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This figure has a double function: during production, the sound designer is responsible for sound recording (dialogue, sound effects and music), and then during the final post-production period will work on the soundtrack and digital editing of the recorded audio material.
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The editor is responsible for “putting together” the scenes that
have been shot and framed in such a way as to construct a story through the alliance of sound with image. Within the post-production period they will rework the images to ensure any visual corrections necessary and integrate any digital special effects.
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The cameraman/woman is the person who physically handles the TV or film camera on a TV
or film production, filming or recording the required scenes. From a professional perspective, the job requires a combination
of technical skills, knowledge and a creative sensibility; and must visually interpret and fulfil the needs of the Director and the DoP (Director of Photography)...
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Ideas come from everything. ALFRED HITCHCOCK
The teaching faculty comprises teachers and
professionals working at a national and
international level, and a number of
personalities from the film and television world,
who hold masterclasses and workshops as
visiting professors. Thanks to their skills and
abilities and the support offered to a training
curriculum of a high technical and cultural
standard, CISA remains firmly anchored
in the professional working world; their
collaboration, in effect, enables the school
to maintain a pedagogical pathway to keep up
with the constant changes and developments
in the sector.
The limited number of students the school
accepts enables teachers to have a close
relationship with each individual student, and
allows for tailoring teaching plans to suit
individual needs and talents. The relationship
between teachers and students is fed by an
ethos of learning by doing which the Academy
coordinates alongside the more traditional
lecture and demonstration teaching approach.
In keeping with the Professional Education and
Training (PET) ethos and structures, there is
great emphasis on practical training, which is
also offered via external apprenticeships that
give students direct contact with real projects
in the working world.
Edoardo Colombo, Marco Longo, Domenico Lucchini, Alessandro Stellino
Stefania Consonni, Sandro Dazieri, Lara Fremder, Francesco Montagner, Heidrun Schleef
Marco Bertozzi, Nello Correale, Massimo D’Anolfi, Michelangelo Frammartino, Piergiorgio Gay, Stefano Knuchel, Lech Kowalski, Martina Parenti, Luciano Rigolini, Vito Robbiani
Andrea Canetta, Giorgio Ghisolfi, Corinna Glaus, Daniele Maggioni, Sergej Grguric, Marco Poloni, Cristina Proserpio, Marco Pucci, Leonardo Sangiorgi (Studio Azzurro), Mohammed Soudani, Marco Turco
Erik Bernasconi, Nicola Bernasconi, Laura Bispuri, Duccio Chiarini, Ezio Conforti, Giuliana Ghielmini, Alina Marazzi, Milly Miljkovic, Bettina Pontiggia, Assunta Ranieri, Francesca Vegezzi, Simone Visparelli, Dario Zonta
Renato Berta, Luca Bigazzi, Mauro Boscarato, Riccardo Brunner, Giacomo Devecchi, Reza Khatir, Alberto Meroni, Fabio Possanzini
Lorenzo Duca, Davide Grampa, Fiorenzo Mordasini
Rico Andriolo, Flavio Cristilli, Paul Glass, Sandro Hess, Alberto Morelli, Elda Olivieri, Riccardo Studer, Pietro Viviani
Andreoli Valentina, Lorenzo Ameri, Mauro Boscarato, Valentina Cicogna, Carlotta Cristiani, Mauro Gallo, Davide Grampa, Andrea Masciadri, Andrea Orsini, Peter Pražák, Mariano Snider
Jacques Aumont, Marco Bellocchio, Michael Beltrami, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Luca Bigazzi, Laura Bispuri, Diego Cassani, Carlo Chatrian, Rolando Colla, Alessandro Comodin, Bartolomeo Corsini, Peter Del Monte, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Riccardo Fanciola, Daniele Finzi Pasca, Matteo Garrone, Giuseppe Gaudino, Sabine Gisiger, Francisco Gòzon, Philip Gröning, Adriano Kestenholz, Lech Kowalski, Federica Lang, Kevin B. Lee, Mario Martone, Roberto Minervini, Laura Morganti (Discovery Channel), Marco Müller, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Maurizio Nichetti, Enrico Nosei, Darezhan Omirbaev, Michele Placido, Marco Poloni, Francis Reusser, Gianfranco Rosi, Tatti Sanguineti, Georges Schwizgebel, Claire Simon, Silvio Soldini, Amos Sussigan, Bela Tar, Luciano Tovoli, Edoardo Winspeare, Romed Wyder, Alessandro Zonin
Presidente
Michele Dedini
Vice presidenti
Niccolò Salvioni
Membri
Michael Beltrami
Nello Correale
Fabio Fumagalli
Simona Gamba
Elda Guidinetti
Domenico Lucchini
Alina Marazzi
Alessandro Marcionni
Gianfilippo Pedote
Nicola Pini
Roberto Pomari
Giancarlo Zappoli
Presidente Onorario
Giovanna Masoni Brenni
Membri Onorari
Vittorio Bagnasco
Teco Celio
Augusto Chollet
Mario Garriba
Frédéric Maire
Director
Marco Poloni
Head of Education, SSS biennium and Faculty
Edoardo Colombo
Head of Education, SPD specialization year and Faculty
Francesca Monti
Coordinator for SSS and SPD productions and Faculty
Marco Longo
Head of CISAlab - Experimental Laboratory for Research and Education, Faculty
Davide Grampa
CISAlab Assistant - Experimental Laboratory for Research and Education, Faculty
Andrea Mezzalira
Grieco Rafael
Technical Manager and Faculty
Flavio Cristilli
Technical Area Assistant
Gaia Ruggieri
Secretariat and Administration Manager
Daniela Doninelli
Communication and Press Office (freelance)
Mattia Ferretti
Renato Berta
Riccardo Brunner
Giulio Bursi
Stefania Consonni
Daniele Maggioni
Peter Slansky
Domietta Torlasco
In Our Plan of Studies you will find the admission requirements to the Academy.
Send an e-mail to iscrizioni@cisaonline.ch or contact
our office directly +41 (0)91 756 00 90 to pre-register for the new academic year.
Registration for the admission test for the 2025/2026 academic year will close on 20 June 2025.
CISA’s organizational structure has been enhanced with professional expertise, able to run didactic activities relating to more experimental and applied areas, both technically and as forms of communication.
Students and colleagues have at their disposal a training and research laboratory CISAlab, thus allowing the school to stand out as a place where, beyond the technologies involved, the newest approaches to communication are refined and developed, benefiting from more flexible organizational response to the requirements of the
outside world.
Besides current internships, also plans for further education and training are in progress as a way to develop in greater depth a certain amount of activities, in collaboration with a network of structures with which CISA has been working.
Locarno Film Festival
Academic partner
CILECT
Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision
(The International Association of Film and Television Schools)
Conferenza SSS Ticino
Conferenza dei direttori delle scuole d'arte applicata Svizzera
ATST odec Ticino
Associazione svizzera dei diplomati SSS
Filiera Cinema del Canton Ticino
Piattaforma
CSC
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Roma e Milano
ECTV
Escuela de Cine y Televisión, Havana (Cuba)
CESMA
Centro Europeo per gli Studi in Musica e Acustica
LAC
Lugano Arte e Cultura
LIONS Club Mendrisiotto
Enjoy Arena Locarno
RSI
Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana
Teleticino
JazzAscona
AFAT
Associazione Film Audiovisivi Ticinese
Ticino Film Commission
TedX Lugano
ESPOprofessioni
SUPSI (DFA)
PalaCinema Locarno SA
CISA is located in Locarno (Switzerland) within the new and prestigious PalaCinema,
in the territorial cinema center.
