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Congress 2025
The conference will address the contemporary challenge of answering the critical questions: “What films to make?”, “For whom to make them?” and “Why make them?” It seeks to create a space for dialogue between educators who share the mission of inspiring the next generation of filmmakers, encouraging deep reflection on the responsibility of cinema in society today and the transformative role of education in the creation of meaningful and engaged films.
Subjects may include but are not limited to:
• Ethics and responsibility in film education.
• Training of students to take the social impact of cinema into account in their projects.
• Educational approaches that influence motivation, critical thinking and creative
development.
• Curricular re-design for diverse and inclusive narratives.
• Cultural and social diversity integration into teaching.
About Universidad de Guadalajara
The University of Guadalajara is an institution that has inherited an educational tradition of more than two hundred years of history. Currently, the University is developed from a network model that is made up of six thematic university centers – specialized in a disciplinary field and based in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara –, nine regional university centers – with an interdisciplinary character and established in different regions of the State –, a Higher Secondary Education System – with 165 campuses distributed throughout Jalisco –, as well as a Virtual University System, which offers higher education in the distance modality.
Our University trains high-level human resources in different scientific disciplines; it currently serves more than 270 thousand students – 120 thousand at the higher level and 150 thousand at the upper secondary level.
Universidad de Guadalajara mission is to develop, disseminate, and elevate the significance of scientific, technical, and artistic knowledge through excellence in higher education.
About DIS
Mission
The Audiovisual Arts degree has the mission of training audiovisual production professionals who apply their analytical skills and professional competencies with dedication, responsibility and honesty. Young filmmakers committed to social welfare and a constant search for innovative cinema, with national identity, but which also strengthens and consolidates the union of Latin American and Caribbean peoples.
Vision
It has consolidated a necessary and sufficient academic staff for the professional and humanistic training of its students.
It has a flexible curriculum of permanent innovation.
It is at the forefront of physical and technical infrastructure.
It is positioned as one of the best educational options in the audiovisual field, in the National and Latin American environment.
Philosophy
With an artistic and humanistic approach, the audiovisual arts bachelor and master degrees are linked to with issues in the cultural, socio - political and socio - economic spheres of our country and the world.
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