As one of the Asia’s most prestigious film colleges and China’s only film academy, the Beijing Film Academy offers unmatched and extensive resources for your film education. You’ll be part of our big family with 2,364 students including 48 PhDs and 422 postgraduates, 1,894 undergraduates and 84 overseas students. This offers you an unrivalled opportunity to develop peer networks with tomorrow’s media leaders. BFA’s 263 expert teachers make sure you can learn everything you need with personal attention and great industry connections. Our facilities include four studios equipped to professional production standards, with advanced cinematography and production equipment from recognized industry suppliers including ARRI Alaxa, ARRI Lights, Kino Flo, Panther, Steadicam, and with top-level postproduction and grading suites from Quantel and Da-Vinci. Over the last sixty years, thousands of film professionals have received their film education from BFA. Indeed, over half of China’s leading film executives count themselves as BFA alumni, including international film award directors Xie Fei, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, Wang Quan’an, renowned cinematographers Gu Changwei and Zhao Fei to name just a few. Together they are living proof of our educational credo “Technical mastery fostering artistic vision”.
In 2013, we warmly invite international students to join our full-time undergraduate programs. All courses within the program are English-language friendly, and you will enjoy access to our advanced production facilities.

Beijing Film Academy only offers a Bachelor degree for its English program on Film Production.

Legislation for International Applicants

1. International applicants for this program are required to hold a
non-Chinese passport for at least four (4) years. The applicant should
once lived in a foreign country over two (2) years. A scanned copy of your
passport with entry & exit records within four (4) years should be
presented to us for verification.
2. Applicants are required to submit the application documents before
deadline 1st June
3. Applicants need to be in good health, both by law and to complete the
program. Apart from the protocol requirements that are given by the
Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Health, we have
other specific requirements:
• Normal hearing is required.
• Good visual acuity is required. Visual acuity of 5.0 or above is
desirable, but if you need to wear glasses of contact lenses, your
corrected visual acuity needs to be 4.8 or above.
• Applicants with color-blindness or color weakness will be considered
unsuitable for the program.
4. For applicants who may be required by their own country to perform
national military service, we suggest completing your service before
applying. Joining your country’s army in the middle of study will cause
automatic disenrollment.
5. Applicants need to be eighteen (18) years old or above.
6. Applicants are required to be well disciplined and legally responsible.
Applicants who have been expelled by former schools within a year will
not be accepted.
7. Applicants with criminal or prison records will not be accepted.
After preparing application documents and sending them to lisanewxin@yahoo.cn, you will need to make an appointment for an online interview. Afterwards, you will receive a verification.


Checklist
-A scanned copy of your passport
-Application Form
-A passport-sized photo
-A scanned copy of your certificate of education and your academic transcript records (English translations should be attached with your  non-English materials).
-An admission essay of up to 1500 words, which is constructed by two parts.
Part1. Tell us about your motivation to have you apply for this program. 
Part2. A story outline for an original short film of no more than 5minutes duration based on your own idea.
-A personal statement describing your cultural and family background, your level of education, your academic achievements, your areas  of interest or your specialties.
-Your web portfolio containing your film show-reels, short films, animations, photographic arts, paintings or sculptures.
*Toefl scores are OPTIONAL
*Application fee is 800 RMB