Student Services and Support

ESCAC’s academic support and the resources you need to focus on learning and bringing your projects to life.

• Tutoring and Coordination
  • Your support point throughout the academic year. You can turn to coordinators and teachers to ask questions, get guidance on your academic path and make decisions about your studies.
• Production Equipment
  • For your practical work and projects, you’ll have access to cameras, lenses, sound and lighting equipment, grip equipment and high-quality professional materials. You’re not just here to learn how it works: you’re here to use it.
• Facilities and Technical Rooms
  • You’ll have access to the various studios, colour grading suites, the music room and the mixing room. Book a room and use it.
• Media Library and Study Rooms
  • Spaces to study, research and prepare projects, with access to more than 15.000 bibliographic and film references and to the Universitat de Barcelona library network.
• Student Support
  • This service, for both prospective and current students, is made up of the tutors and coordinators of the study programmes. Its aim is to advise and guide students throughout their studies through interviews and personalised support tailored to each student’s circumstances, needs and characteristics.
• Enquiries, Complaints and Suggestions Channel
  • If you have any questions, complaints or enquiries about the centre’s academic or administrative operations, you can request a meeting with your tutor or coordinator. If they are unable to address or resolve the matter, they will refer it to the Head of Studies, who may bring it before the competent bodies established by the centre’s Internal Regulations. bustiasuggeriments@escac.es

Everything you need to work, create and navigate academic life at ESCAC, right from your screen.

• ESCAC App
  • The ESCAC App brings your whole life at ESCAC together in one place. Courses, grades, calendar, notices, events and community, right on your phone. And when you finish, you can stay connected as an alum for your first two years.
• Software Licences
  • You have access to professional software to develop your projects and work during the academic year, from production tools such as Movie Magic to VFX programmes and other licences related to your studies.
• IT Support
  • If something goes wrong, you don’t have to figure it out on your own. As a student, you have access to the ESCAC Helpdesk to resolve technical issues related to your accounts, logins and digital tools.
• Office 365
  • Your ESCAC account is also your gateway to Office 365: email, work tools and access to various of the school’s digital services.

All the spaces that make everyday life at ESCAC easier.

• Fitness Room
  • A space to work out, unwind and recharge between classes. As an ESCAC student, you have access to the fitness room at Vapor Universitari.
    Opening hours: from 9h to 21 h.
    Location: Vapor Universitari.
• Café and Canteen
  • A meeting point between classes. A place to eat, take a break and share a table with students, teachers and school staff.
    Cafè ESCAC: open Monday to Friday from 9 h to 20 h, in La Farinera square and at Vapor Universitari.
    Canteen service: from 13 h to 14:30 h at La Farinera.
• Media Library
  • More than 15.000 films, books and specialist film magazines to study, research or find the reference you’ve been looking for. You’ll also have access to the Universitat de Barcelona library network.
    Opening hours: from 9h to 21 h.
    Location: Vapor Campus and Farinera Campus.
• Auditorium and Cinema Room
  • A space to share, screen and meet. The ESCAC Auditorium hosts screenings, talks, workshops, meetings and other activities for the school community.

Student participation, safety and personal care.

• ESCAC Gender Equality Commission
  • The ESCAC Gender Equality Commission follows the Universitat de Barcelona protocol for preventing, detecting and responding to situations of sexual harassment and harassment based on sex, gender identity or sexual orientation, as well as other sexist or LGTBIQ+-phobic conduct.
    Contact: comissioigualtat@escac.es
    View the equality protocol
    View the name change procedure
• Support and prevention of abuse in Catalonia’s audiovisual and performing arts sectors
  • Department established by the Catalan Film Academy with the support of the Barcelona City Council’s Department of Social Rights, Global Justice, Feminisms and LGTBI and the Barcelona Provincial Council’s Department of Equality and Social Sustainability. Support: 648 526 848 (WhatsApp) and abusos@academiadelcinema.cat
• Student Representation
  • ESCAC students, in order to safeguard their interests and as set out in its Internal Regulations, are duly represented in the following four bodies:
    • – ESCAC Academic Board
    • – Student Assembly
    • – Disciplinary Committee
    • – Quality Committee
      Their powers, responsibilities and functions can also be consulted in the Internal Regulations and are overseen by the Centre’s Quality Committee.
• Psychological Support
  • The UB’s psychological support services are available to ESCAC students.
    Psychological support
    Free telephone support service.
    Request the service
    Psychological Clinic
    As an ESCAC student, you can benefit from the UB Psychological Clinic’s special rate for the UB community.
    Book an appointment
• Quality Management
  • Your opinion plays a part in how ESCAC improves. Through satisfaction surveys, you can assess both the teaching and the programme itself. The results are collected by course coordinators and sent to the Academic Office for analysis. Based on them, the Head of Studies prepares a report, which is presented to the Academic Board and the Centre’s Quality Committee. Students also have a voice in this process: four democratically elected students represent them on these bodies.