Professor / Associate Professor / Lecturer / Post-doctoral Fellow in Meishi Film Academy

Work type: Full-time

School: Meishi Film Academy

Introduce:

Established in 2000, the Meishi Film Academy offers eight undergraduate programs: Acting, Broadcasting and Hosting Arts, Drama and Film Directing, Drama and Film Literature, Radio and Television Editing and Directing, Film and Television Photography and Production, and Theatre and Film Art Design (with directions in Digital Film and Television Art Design and Character Modeling Design). Among these, the Acting and Broadcasting and Hosting Arts programs are recognized as specialty programs in Chongqing, with the latter being a first-class program in Chongqing and selected as a national first-class program in 2021.

The academy offers an academic master’s degree in Drama and Film Studies under the first-level discipline of Arts, as well as a professional degree in Drama and Film. Drama and Film Studies has been designated a key discipline in Chongqing during the 12th, 13th, and 14th Five-Year Plans. Currently, the academy collaborates with the School of Big Data and Software Engineering to maintain the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Film and Television Intelligent Technology and Art, and with the School of Journalism to support the Chongqing Key Discipline Cluster of Journalism, Communication, and Film Arts. The Chongqing University Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries is also housed within the academy.

The academy currently enrolls nearly 1,000 undergraduate students and over 200 master’s students. The faculty consists of 56 full-time teachers, including 9 professors and 22 associate professors. Additionally, the academy employs several renowned experts, scholars, directors, and actors from both academia and the industry as guest professors and part-time master's supervisors.

The academy’s dedicated teaching building and Film and Media Arts Teaching Experiment Center cover over 10,000 square meters and are equipped with comprehensive facilities, including a library and audio-visual archive, film studios, TV studios, a small theater, academic lecture halls, a film mixing studio, digital slicing rooms, digital HD non-linear editing labs, photography labs, Foley labs, computer-aided design labs, stage design model rooms, makeup labs, rehearsal rooms, listening rooms, piano rooms, and physical training rooms.

The academy has established strong cooperative relationships with domestic film and television media, production companies, art schools, and major international film art institutions. The academy’s development goal is to align with Chongqing University's “Double First-Class” initiative, aiming to build the academy into a highland for film and television art education that integrates teaching, research, and creation, and to become a first-class film academy nationally and internationally renowned.