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The Tel Aviv festival Cinematheque, in Israel, has chosen the two documentaries co-produced by our School and ORT Uruguay in commemoration of Israel's national day, the Yom Ha-Shoah (Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust victims), on 23 April.

In the framework of the subject «Theories of International Relations» taught by Professor Federico Guerrero, we were visited by Dr. José Antonio Sanahuja, Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and co-author of the manual «Teorías de las Relaciones Internacionales» (Tecnos, 2015).

Co-directed and co-written by Maria Medinilla and Roger Grau (19th graduation year), "Colgado" (Hung) is a 15 minute long take that explains the reaction of Marta, Irene and Mary when they learn that Andrea, the girl they bullied, has committed suicide.

Laia Servera, Alumna of our School, Editor and host of the television programme «Info K», has received the Zapping Award, which recognizes its Super 3 channel space as the best current television programme.

In a ceremony held in our school and attended by representatives of the IReS Foundation, the Majestic Hotel Group, the creative agency The Love Comes and the Degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, students Laura Mora Duñó and Núria Rabassa Batista, have been proclaimed the winners of the IV contest «A rose for a cause».

The handing over ceremony took place within the framework of Jornades Blanquerna, which focus on a reflection on Europe, now that we are faced with important challenges and risks, such as the refugee crisis.

Professor of the Degree in Journalism and Corporate Communication Vicent Sanchis has been appointed by the governing council of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (CCMA) as the new director of TV3.

MEP Ramon Jáuregui (PSOE) and former MP David Fernández (CUP), are some of the personalities who are visiting us during the Blanquerna Conferences, which this year which reflect on Europe, as we as Europeans are now facing major challenges and risks.

The Governing Board of the University Ramon Llull has approved four proposals for new postgraduate degrees presented by our School: three master’s courses in the field of International Relations and a diploma of university specialization in Journalism.

The Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) Catalonia has presented a proposal to the Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises (ICEC) to end gender inequality in Catalan cinema.

As an initiative of the Direction of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication, our School deployed the red carpet to see this year’s Oscars ceremony live. Sixty students responded to the call and came to eat popcorn and other cinema snacks in the School and share all the details of the most Hollywoodian night of the year.

This seminar of comparative studies brought together Italian, Catalan and Valencian scholars with the aim of jointly reflecting on the relationship between communication and democracy in the West. The title of the meeting was: «Media, digital networks and new parties».

The film director Judith Colell has been named the new director of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication taught at Blanquerna FCRI.

The short film «Como la primera vez», by Yennifer Uribe Alzate, alumna of the Official Master’s course in Film and Television Fiction. Production, Script and Realization, directed by Dr. Fernando de Felipe and coordinated by Dr. Iván Gómez, has been projected at the last edition of the Festival International du Court Métrage à Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Last week, the Auditorium of our School served as the stage for one of the darkest events of the year in Barcelona: the BCNegra Festival of the noir novel in Catalan.

We visited Moiré Films, the film company of Marc Crehuet, Alumni, professor of our School and director of «El Rei Borni», his first film.

In the coming weeks, the Goya and Gaudí Awards, which several Alumni of our School have been nominated for, will be handed out.

Invited by the Observatory of Communication, Religion and Culture, Rhouma presented the talk «Youth as a tool for Religious Diversity Managing in Europe. The French Muslim case.» at the School.

On Monday, in the Palace of the Generalitat, the book «Història del Periodisme de Catalunya», directed by Professor Francesc Canosa, was presented.

This week, the representative of the Generalitat de Catalunya to the European Union, Amadeu Altafaj, gave a masterclass to the students of the Master’s course in Journalism and International Relations and the Master’s course in Political and Social Communication.