Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Offices at the corner of Guy and Ste. Catherine
Address
1250, rue Guy, FB 319 Montreal, Quebec
Information
Type	Public
Established	1997
President	Mel Hoppenheim
Faculty	approx. 40
Enrollment	animation: 45; film production: 60; film studies: 75; MA film studies: 15; MFA studio arts: 8
Campus	Urban
Information	514-848-2424 (ext. 4666)
Website	Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, a division of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, is a film school located in Montreal, Quebec. It is informally identified as MHSoC, and accepts 200 students a year, for study in the fields of animation, film production and film studies. It is the largest university-based centre for the study of film animation, film production and film studies in Canada. Before it was renamed The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 1997, the film school was established as the Department of Cinema within the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1976 by, amongst many others, Professor Andre Herman, a graduate of the National Film School in Łódź and La Fémis, who remained with the school until his retirement in 2002, and the founding Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alfred Pinsky. It is the oldest film school in Canada.

Mel Hoppenheim founded Panavision (Canada) in 1965. Providing cameras and other shooting equipment, he was soon traveling all over the world to equip ever more elaborate productions. After six years of success in his hometown of Montreal, he decided to open a second technical installation in Toronto in 1972. A Vancouver facility followed in 1977. Still committed to what he saw as Montreal’s vast and largely untapped potential and possibility for the production industry, Hoppenheim acquired the historic Theatre Expo de la Cité du Havre in 1988. Building five state-of-the-art studios, he soon had created the most modern of facilities available to the Canadian film and television industry. His Cité du Cinéma was born.