At the Basque Country Film School, located in Bilbao, the cultural heart of Bizkaia, we believe that filmmaking begins with a question. With a doubt, an intuition, an image that lingers. 

With an emotion yearning for form, and we believe that this spark is enough to begin a journey.

A journey that blends technical learning, creative experimentation, artistic sensibility, and a supportive community from day one.

Throughout your studies, more than 70 active professionals and instructors will guide you, challenge you, and walk alongside you as you develop your own unique perspective.

We are a school where you learn by doing, where you think while filming, where mistakes are part of the process, and where each student gradually discovers what they want to tell and how they want to tell it.

That's why places are limited: we carefully curate each group to ensure a close-knit, personalized, and profoundly transformative learning experience.

Here you will find spaces to explore, to make mistakes, to dare, to create, and to become part of a growing industry. 

More than a school, we are a place where people and stories meet.

Welcome to ECPV.
Your perspective is about to change.

In recent years, the ECPV has become one of the creative driving forces behind the audiovisual boom in the Basque Country. Our students and alumni have participated in feature films, series, and short films that now form part of the new landscape of Basque cinema: from local productions that have toured international festivals to high-impact projects for Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, EITB, and Atresmedia. Many of them have been part of films that have shone at ZINEBI, Sitges, Málaga, Seminci, Kimuak, and numerous European festivals, demonstrating that the talent born here doesn't stagnate: it grows, travels, transforms, and finds its place in the global industry.

Every year we celebrate milestones that make the ECPV community feel stronger: alumni selected for Kimuak, students hired as part of the technical team on national series, former students who are now directing their own works, and projects created within the school that take on a life of their own beyond its walls. 

Our students have worked on award-winning films, short films that have reached audiences worldwide, and productions that have contributed to the record number of films shot in Bizkaia. 

These achievements are no accident: they stem from a school where practice is constant, where collaboration is natural, and where every student understands that filmmaking is not just a technique, but a craft learned through mentorship, participation, and daring.