The Governing Board of the University Ramon Llull has approved four proposals for new postgraduate degrees presented by our School: three master’s courses in the field of International Relations and a diploma of university specialization in Journalism.

The Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) Catalonia has presented a proposal to the Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises (ICEC) to end gender inequality in Catalan cinema.

As an initiative of the Direction of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, our School deployed the red carpet to see this year’s Oscars ceremony live. Sixty students responded to the call and came to eat popcorn and other cinema snacks in the School and share all the details of the most Hollywoodian night of the year.

This seminar of comparative studies brought together Italian, Catalan and Valencian scholars with the aim of jointly reflecting on the relationship between communication and democracy in the West. The title of the meeting was: «Media, digital networks and new parties».

The film director Judith Colell has been named the new director of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication taught at Blanquerna FCRI.

The short film «Como la primera vez», by Yennifer Uribe Alzate, alumna of the Official Master’s course in Film and Television Fiction. Production, Script and Realization, directed by Dr. Fernando de Felipe and coordinated by Dr. Iván Gómez, has been projected at the last edition of the Festival International du Court Métrage à Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Last week, the Auditorium of our School served as the stage for one of the darkest events of the year in Barcelona: the BCNegra Festival of the noir novel in Catalan.

We visited Moiré Films, the film company of Marc Crehuet, Alumni, professor of our School and director of «El Rei Borni», his first film.

In the coming weeks, the Goya and Gaudí Awards, which several Alumni of our School have been nominated for, will be handed out.

Invited by the Observatory of Communication, Religion and Culture, Rhouma presented the talk «Youth as a tool for Religious Diversity Managing in Europe. The French Muslim case.» at the School.