GITR Film & Television School

GITR Film & Television School (Institute of Cinema and Television; formerly the Humanitarian Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting named after M. A. Litovchin) is a private non-profit higher education institution in Moscow. It was founded on 5 April 1994 with the support of the Russian State Television and Radio Company Ostankino, successor to the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio, to train professionals for television, film, radio and new media. It offers bachelor's, specialist, master's and postgraduate programmes in film and television directing, cinematography, sound engineering, producing, screenwriting, journalism, media communications, painting and graphic arts. Since 2003 it has run Telemania, an international open youth festival of television programmes and films, and it publishes the journal Nauka Televideniya.