Professional internships
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola creates a circuit between the amateur and the professional (…and vice versa)
The school's partner institutions (the Basque Film Archive, Tabakalera ICCC, the San Sebastián Film Festival) take an active role in the educational programme by passing on their experience and knowledge to students. As part of the centre's educational philosophy and by virtue of the physical conditions of the building itself, work experience positions are organically interwoven into the teaching plan.
Given the fact that the School is a centre created by collaboration between these institutions, training in these work spaces is conceived as being a genuine process of passing on experience. The practical training sessions are tutored by highly-qualified professionals and are designed as platforms towards employability in the future.
EQZE has signed collaboration agreements with other institutions to enable students to engage in extracurricular work experience and professional training. Over the course of the academic year, EQZE students may engage in a minimum of 100 hours of work experience. Work experience is run from June to December.
It's possible to formalize internships that a student secures independently with an external organization or institution through a three-party agreement. The condition is that the host organization respects university regulations and that internships take place within the established periods.
Institutions
ARSENAL INSTITUT FÜR FILM UND VIDEOKUNST
Communicating film culture in lively fashion is the mission and passion of Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art. As a site for research and education that works both nationally and internationally, this Berlin institution creates a network of communication as well as a space for (film) cultural dialogue.
A cinema, a festival (Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded), a distributor (Arsenal Distribution), and the archive form Arsenal’s areas of operation. The continual interaction between and intertwining of these areas allows the institution to work with films in a lasting manner and from a range of different perspectives. This structure is at once a constitutive element of Arsenal and unique worldwide.
ARTIUM MUSEOA
Artium Museoa represents the benchmark among museums of Contemporary Art. This is thanks to a collection which, boasting almost 3,000 individual works principally by artist of Basque and Spanish origin, is one of the finest in existence in the fiel of Contemporary Art, and is certainly the most important of its kind within the Basque Country: a colle ction that ranges from Picasso and Miró to Barceló and Elena Rivero; from Chillida and Oteiza to Cristina Iglesias and Txomin Badiola; from Richard Serra to Bill Viola - not to mention new generations of artist.
What´s more Artium Museoa also sets the standard with an ambitious programme of exhibitions encompassing works of a most local and international nature, an intensive schedule of activities relating to contemporary art (cinema, performing arts, music, courses...), a dynamic and active Information Resource Centre and a commitment towards educational and social outreach.
CINE CAUCE
Cine Cauce is an international meeting that brings together women or non-binary people involved in alternative preservation and restoration processes, programming, experimental practices and film exhibition projects in rural or peripheral areas. This project, conceived in EQZE, was created to share experiences, practices, tools, experiments, doubts, and reflections on filmmaking in all its aspects that converge and influence the exhibition.
CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA - MUSEU DO CINEMA
Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema is the organisation charged with preserving and disseminating Portugal’s film heritage. It was founded at the beginning of the 1950s by one of the pioneers of European film archives, Manuel Félix Ribeiro, and became an autonomous institution in 1980.
Cinemateca Portuguesa has been a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) since 1956.
COURTISANE FESTIVAL
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. In the form of an annual festival, film screenings, events, conversations and publications, we investigate the relationships between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement. Courtisane focuses on creating public resonance spaces in which presentation and reflection connect. Courtisane exhibits audiovisual works in various shapes and contexts, but also wants to expand the experience of watching and listening, in the form of conversations, encounters and texts.
FIDMARSEILLE
FIDMarseille is an International Film Festival which takes place every year at the beginning of July in Marseille. It offers a programme of about one hundred films, made up of fictions and documentaries, short and feature films. Paying close attention to singular writing and emerging forms, FIDMarseille is a reference festival for the independent cinema of today and tomorrow, recognized internationally for the importance of its talent scouting work.
FIDCampus is a training programme for young filmmakers and students from art schools, film schools and partner universities.
FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA
Filmoteca Española is the organisation in charge of recovering, researching, conserving and disseminating Spain's film heritage. Its mission is to conserve, protect and promote the film and film collections that it holds, as well as all the knowledge, direct or transversal, that is derived from them, through screenings of the materials, exhibitions and through access to the bibliographic collections and collections of objects and graphic work, as well as the documentary collections of its archive.
Filmoteca Española has been a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) since 1956.
INSTITUT JEAN VIGO
Initially a cineclub created by Marcel Oms in 1962, the Institut Jean Vigo has been working since 1981 to safeguard, preserve and promote film heritage. A resource, conservation, animation, dissemination (an annual programme and Confrontation festival), research and training centre, the Institut Jean Vigo became a film archive in 2006, taking its place alongside the members of the FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) and the FCAFF (Federation of French Cinémathèques and Film Archives).
LIGHT CONE
Light Cone is a nonprofit organization whose aim is the distribution, promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around the world. It's primary mission is the distribution of the works in its collection, in their original format whenever possible, to cultural organizations such as nonprofits, cinemas, museums, universities, galleries and festivals. To fulfill this mission, Light Cone operates as a filmmakers' cooperative, guaranteeing to the authors (or the rights-holders) the ownership of both the physical copies and the moral rights of the distributed works.
Light Cone's Documentation Center offers a unique collection of written and audiovisual documents for consultation by researchers and programmers. With the addition, in 1999, of the Experimental Film Archive of Avignon (AFEA), the Documentation Center includes over 6,000 print documents (books, periodicals, catalogues), more than 15,000 audiovisual documents (digital files, DVDs, Blu-Rays, audio and video tapes...) and 1250 thematic records (biographical and institutional files).
PUNTO DE VISTA
The Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre is a prestigious annual film festival held in Pamplona. Dedicated to non-fiction cinema, it seeks to foster encounters between creators and the public through shared knowledge and to generate debate about reality. In addition to screenings, the festival offers a diverse program that includes workshops, performing arts, music, and meetings with filmmakers.
RADIO TELEVISIÓN ESPAÑOLA
The RTVE Archive currently has 1,350,000 hours of digitised. Since 2017 the daily broadcast has stopped using physical media, therefore the contents are incorporated directly into the Archive's Digital Library. In 2004, as part of the Project for the Digitisation of RTVE's Documentary Collection, the digitisation of the Archive's film material began. On the other hand, since 2024, a strategic workflow has been implemented for RTVE with the aim of recovering the film newsreels of the 1970s.
XCÈNTRIC
Created in 2001, Xcèntric is the CCCB’s regular film program, featuring regular screenings throughout the winter and spring, as well as year-round activities. The care taken in putting together and producing each session, along with the decision to screen the works in their original format, makes each small event unique. The contents constantly expand to include new genres and subject matter, but the works shown are always the result of personal creation, open to experimentation and research. Over the years, we’ve added educational theory and practical activities, meetings with filmmakers and specialists, publications, travelling programmes and in-house productions, and a unique space: the Xcèntric Archive.