Frequently Asked
Questions
Don Bosco International Media Academy (DBIMA) is a premier private higher education institution specializing in comprehensive cinema, television, and media arts programs.
Our student body consists of passionate, creative individuals from around the world looking to build a professional global footprint in filmmaking, direction, and technical media production.
We offer specialized professional courses, international Bachelor's, Master's, and the Elite Diploma in Cinema & Television production arts.
Classes are kept purposefully small and intimate to ensure optimized technical access to sets, personal mentorship, and dynamic collaborative workshop environments.
Entrance evaluations depend on portfolio review, background evaluation, and personal interviews conducted by the academic panel.
Admissions operate on rolling seasonal cycles. Please contact the administrative registry block for current intake deadlines.
Applications can be processed completely online via our secure digital admission engine dashboard accessible through the 'Apply Now' portal button.
No, international courses are structurally conducted completely in English to keep professional curriculum accessible to international global creatives.
Yes, a professional functional working comprehension level of written and spoken English is necessary to follow theoretical lectures and crew set calls.
Absolutely! French students eager to study in an international context and work on multi-cultural sets are highly welcome to apply.
Yes, student workshop films can be directed in native spoken tracks, provided translation subtitles are embedded into editing delivery workflows.
Standard core lecture components and practical set structures generally begin annually every Autumn cycle around late September or early October.
Evaluation metric criteria for grants and partial scholarships are processed through academic profile validation and financial aid registration checks.
This specialized advanced curriculum is tailor-fit for driven, performance-oriented individuals aiming for deep practical immersion into mainstream field networks.
It depends on whether you seek national framework paths (BTS) or an internationally dynamic global filmmaking curriculum environment (Bachelor). Our counselors can evaluate your map goals.
General core technical overviews are established early, allowing refined track specialization pathways to formalize at designated progression checkpoints during the later academic years.
Yes, our corporate relations office interfaces directly with network production organizations to help guide placement verification workflows.
Absolutely. Through direct faculty mentorship and industry integration, students acquire direct operational contact touchpoints within ongoing commercial media operations.
DBIMA is ideally situated in the historical and vibrant creative cultural ecosystem of Paris, France.
We maintain localized housing informational resource guides and partner network contacts to facilitate international residential search logistics.
DBIMA is founded on Don Bosco's universal humanistic educational values. We embrace total inclusion; students of all cultural, philosophical, and religious backgrounds are fully welcome.
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