
School Environment
The school is located in "Talpiot" industrial area, on Mavo Sam Spiegel Street (previously Yad-Haruzim Street 4), in a building in which the fund for Jerusalem established the studio for acting of Nissan Nativ and the school for visual theatre. The industrial area in Talpiot became active from a combination of industrial factories, malls, theatres, shops, garages and clubs. The school structure was planned by architect, Amazia Aronson, and was designed in advance as a school for theatre for its various requirements: division of space, air conditioning, electricity and acoustics.
The school campus today spreads out over an area of about 1,400 square meters and is divided into wings:
Classrooms: offices, main storeroom and library which operate on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays between the hours of 09:00-18:00 and on Sundays and Wednesdays between the hours of 09:00-21:30.
Editing department: editing rooms, viewing rooms, computer work stations, class for rehearsals with actors, equipment studios for students, private cubicle for each student, telephone, and coffee corner. The editing department is open 24 hours a days for the entire week to enable students to edit during the day and night in accordance with production schedules.
The screenplay department and students club: production rooms for students; 2 classrooms for screenplay writing course and 4 additional editing rooms. The department is open 24 hours a day.
These departments include:
19 air-conditioned and acoustic editing rooms: 17 AVID editing rooms; two soundtrack editing rooms
Acoustic and air-conditioned screening room which includes: screening system on large screen in film, video and DVD, synchronized screening of filmed material and Dolby Surround system, electrical switching room which is the central digital control of activity of all the editing rooms and enables by the push of a button immediate transfer between the AVID systems and the different video positions and to the classrooms.
2 acoustic and air-conditioned studio rooms for filming and directing which include screening equipment in film, video and DVD, computer screenings and Dolby Surround systems.
Study classrooms which are used as studio for work with actors in the evenings and weekends including screening possibilities in film, video and DVD, computer screenings and Dolby Surround system screening.
2 classes for screenplay course which included screening equipment for video and DVD (Dolby Surround system in one classroom)
Library containing cassettes, compact discs and DVD. The library is also used for workshops and for theoretical seminars. There are about 5,000 titles in the library.
Activity room for students with computers connected to internet and possibility of viewing a DVD.
Students club with cable TV.
Equipment storeroom and repair laboratory
Equipment storerooms for students
Teachers room
Office section
School archives
Marketing and distribution department
Garden on school veranda