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The Motion Picture Academy, popularly known as the Pretoria Film School, is the oldest training institution for film-makers in South Africa. It was established in 1971 under the management of the Faculty of Arts of Pretoria Technikon which changed its name after the end of apartheid and the beginning of the democratic dispensation when two technikons merged with it to form the Tshwane University of Technology. It was founded specifically to train technicians for the film and television industries. Its courses are based on classical methodology. The film school has full-time lecturers for each cinematic discipline which includes scriptwriting, directing, camerawork, lighting, film critique, picture editing, sound-editing, producing and marketing and invites industry experts to deliver master classes on a regular basis. While the Faculty of the Arts is situated in Boom Street in the Pretoria city centre, the film school is located on the main campus of the Tshwane University of Technology in Staatsartillerie Road in Pretoria-West.

The film school offers four qualifications:


 * National Diploma: Motion PictureProduction
 * Bachelor’s Degree in Technology: Motion Picture Production
 * Master’s Degree in Technology: Motion Picture Production
 * Doctorate in Technology: Motion Picture Production

Alumni include:

Academy Award winner Dion Beebe