Escinetv continues steady progress toward internationalization as a multinational education company. Our recent shareholding is divided among investors from Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and United States. We extend our gratitude to Professors Harold M. Cooper from Caracas, Mino Rimada from Coahuila, Mexico, Alexis Jiménez from Colorado, USA, Arlés Rodríguez from Caracas, Venezuela, Gabriela Blanco from Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Marcello Gagliardi from Bogotá, Colombia, Luis Valecillos from Nueva Esparta, Venezuela, Francisco Matos from Caracas, Venezuela, and myself, Rubén Rivero, from Caracas, Venezuela.
By being financially committed to Escinetv’s capitalization, we professors will be better positioned to make it profitable and sustainable, thus ensuring the institution’s permanence and continuity. It will always be managed by its owners. International managers will be responsible for promoting our international expansion in most important countries of the Americas, and we will carry out the necessary registrations in each country. We are always attentive to properly certifying film, television, animation, and acting studies from other institutions that require our endorsement.
Although 2023 share issuance has already been fully subscribed and paid for, we do plan to issue new shares at end of 2024, to be subscribed in 2025, at a price of 24 bolivars per share. Those interested in this investment opportunity should contact Rubén Rivero, General Coordinator of Escinetv, by phone or through our social media channels. Currently, our share issuances are private, but we do not rule out considering transforming Escinetv into a public company in medium term. We continue to offer our curriculum of 63 courses, with option to expand it to 75 courses to reach the 2,400 academic hours required for a bachelor’s degree in Mexico. We also continue to offer our traditional courses in screenwriting, history, film, sound, editing, production, directing, acting, and animation. In short to medium term, we will strengthen these learning modalities with new courses, adapted to changing realities of international audiovisual market. By 2024, we expect this online course offering, which allows students from diverse cities and countries to interact throughout their studies, to increase international understanding and combat xenophobia.
Every six weeks, a module concludes and preparations begin for next. During this time, students submit their remaining assignments, professors provide feedback, and program coordinator evaluates overall performance of all classes. Student videos are uploaded to channel, new classes are created, and through this continuous learning process, curriculum is adjusted to ensure that students receive best possible training upon graduation. To uphold our promise to new and prospective students: that they will receive academic curriculum best suited to today’s needs, we will constantly review relevance of existing courses, appropriateness of adding new ones, and feasibility of merging some topics due to time constraints. What remains constant is perception that time is required. Online education isn’t about watching a tutorial on a video platform and learning something in five minutes, especially if you want a profession. Several years of study are necessary, and a high school diploma is also required, since verbal and numerical skills learned in early stages of life are indispensable; they are even necessary tools for the proper programming of artificial intelligence, should you decide that artificial intelligence, and not you, will perform the calculations.
New generations face challenge of evaluating, once those of us from previous generations have passed away, whether their cultural and educational level, obtained solely from suggestions that other users have liked, is sufficient. There is a widespread loss of academic rigor in all aspects of international education. Some of us strive to maintain that academic rigor, and we don’t know to what extent it is appreciated or not. It is also possible that with fall of great empires, as happened with Roman Empire and rise of Middle Ages, there was an increase in illiteracy and a division of territories. We don’t know if that is what will happen now with education. We encourage those who wish to continue their education to do so, despite comfort of not feeling need to learn. One purpose of learning is to be able to apply theoretical knowledge acquired, because there is certainly reason to criticize fact that people study only to repeat and teach again to others what they have already learned, without any tangible contribution to development of our environment.
Rubén Rivero Capriles
President Escinetv Escuela de Cine y Televisión, C. A.
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