Barcelona Film Society: where film education meets creation
The Barcelona Film Society is the film school of UPF Barcelona School of Management, built around the Master's Degree in Creative Documentary.
Founded in 1998 by Jordi Balló and now led by filmmaker Eva Vila, the Master's has spent almost three decades shaping a distinctive approach to film education, where learning and filmmaking go hand in hand.
Students develop their projects in collaboration with independent producers, gaining hands-on experience throughout the filmmaking process. This unique approach has led to the production of 42 feature-length documentaries to date.
Each edition of the Master's Degree in Creative Documentary at UPF-BSM produces three films, many of which have gone on to gain international recognition and contribute to the evolution of contemporary documentary filmmaking.
The selection below brings together films that have already been completed alongside projects currently in production. Together, they trace an impressive body of work—and a distinctive contribution to some of the defining moments of 21st-century documentary cinema.
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Films developed through the Master's Degree
The Master's Degree in Creative Documentary at UPF-BSM develops three films in each edition, which have had an extraordinary international impact and have placed documentary filmmaking at the forefront of cinematic innovation. This is a selection of films that have already been completed, as well as those that are still in production. Taken together, they form an exemplary collection of some of the major milestones in 21st-century documentary cinema.
