The Academy of Film is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. Since the early seventies, it has been providing Hong Kong with competent graduates to work in the audio-visual production industry.

At present, Academy of Film has eleven full-time faculty members. They are devoted cultural workers whose expertises consist of creative writing, photography, cinematography, film and video directing and editing, audio production, sound design, film theory, criticism and history, television studies and dramatic art.

Each year the CTV option admits 25 students to engage in both theoretical studies and production. The Department is well-equipped, having 2 screening rooms, 1 TV studio, 1 film studio, 1 digital photography laboratory, 3 sound-recording studios, numerous 16mm film and video cameras, darkroom facility, editing facility for film and television production, etc.

A programme rooted in Hong Kong for nearly 30 years, the Academy of Film has committed itself to research in the area of Chinese language cinema and Hong Kong television as well as to produce works of artistic creativity. As it enters the new century, the Academy of Film is also devoting to new ideas, new forms and new technology of media education and scholarship.