ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE TEATRO E CINEMA (ESTC)

The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) was set up in Lisbon by Decree-Law nr. 310/83, dated July 1 (1983). The object of this legal document was to reconvert the Conservatório Nacional, the centenary and prestigious establishment of artistic education, and the setting up of several new establishments offering degrees in the same artistic areas as the Conservatório, among which this school, specifically directed at drama and cinema education.