The Karachi Film School, described as Pakistan’s first institution dedicated to the purpose, has opened in the country to provide hands-on experience to the students.

“Media sciences schools offer a four-year degree and here it would be a one-year programme [diploma]. It is more practical,” Asadul Haq, the director of the school, told Aaj News at the open house of the institution on Sunday.

The institute offers a one-year diploma in filmmaking, directing, cinematography, and acting. It also has 25 hours of certificate courses and a master class which is three to four hours of intense learning sessions.

The students work on the studio floor of Studio 146, the main collaborator of KFS, and get trained to be placed in an internship program with the best-known industry players in media through our collaborations and partnerships with TV channels, production houses, post houses, OTT content develops and many more, the website of the school stated.

“We want to enable students in a year that when they pass out they can easily do jobs,” he said.

Haq went on to add that he wanted to share his learning in his 30 years of professional experience with students.

KFS Dean Zara Zaidi said that the institute has kept the same standard as international colleges.

Some of the students at the event praised the opening of the school and hoped that it would boost Pakistan’s cinema industry.