As the festival aims to stimulate the growth of new talent, it welcomes students from around the world and serves as a venue for the dynamic exchange of audiovisual apprenticeship and experience. Every year, more than 400 students in media and visual arts, cinema, journalism, information and communication, or arts and administration participate in the Fipa. Investigations and reports on audiovisual production, special reports about festival events, the organization of round tables and debates: The students will be present in Biarritz with their teachers to put their skills to work on specific educational projects. Schools attending the Fipa:

• BTS Audiovisuel du Lycée des Arènes (Toulouse)
• BTS Audiovisuel du Lycée René Cassin (Bayonne)
• BTS Audiovisuel de l’Ecole supérieure des métiers de l'image
• Section Ciné-Sup du Lycée Gabriel Guist'hau (Nantes)
• La Femis
• Ecole Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ESAV) et DESS Techniques de traduction de l'Université Toulouse Le Mirail
• Sections production et scénario de l'Université Bordeaux 3 - ISIC
• Master 2 Image et société de l'Université d'Evry Val-d'Essonne
• Master 2 Cinéma et audiovisuel de l'Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
• Master Droit et administration de l'audiovisuel de l'Université Paris I
• Master en marketing et distribution dans l'industrie audiovisuelle européenne à l'INA-Paris I
• Master Edition et communication de l’Institut d'Etudes Supérieures des Arts
• Master Pro Documentaire, écriture des mondes contemporains de l'Université Paris 7 Jussieu
• Master Pro Documentaire de l'Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille)
• Master Pro Département Arts du Spectacle, de l'Image et de l'Ecran de l’Université Lyon 2 Louis Lumière
• Master Pro Droit et métiers de l'audiovisuel à l’Université Paul Cézanne - Aix Marseille III
• Dublin Institute of Technology (Irlande)
• Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Irlande)
• Section communication audiovisuelle de l'École Supérieure de Communication et de Gestion (Bruxelles)
• Master Réalisation de l’Institut d'études Scéniques, Audiovisuelles et Cinématographiques (Liban)

Info-Fipa, the festival’s daily newsletter

Every day, journalism students write, edit and publish a newsletter that focuses on the selections, daily screenings and special events of the festival. With 3,000 copies printed daily, Info-Fipa is distributed at all the festival’s main locations. Since 2002, an English version of Info-Fipa is also available. The production of the newsletter combines skills from several different training programs: The newsroom is made up of students in journalism, film and video, the English version is written by translation students and it is ultimately proof-read by students whose mother-tongue is English. As a result, a bilingual newsletter is available every day for those attending the festival.

Info-Fipa was first created in 2000 by journalism students from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. In 2007, the paper is edited by students from both IEP Toulouse and the École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel of Toulouse. Its English version is the result of a collaboration between the University Toulouse-le-Mirail, Dickinson College and the Film Institute of Ireland.

Iesa.tv

In January 2007, the Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts is launching its own web TV. In celebration of the Fipa’s 20th anniversary, third year students in digital press and communication are managing and broadcasting a 6-minute television programme every day of the festival, which will include interviews, out-of-the-ordinary moments, behind-the-scene images of the festival, as well as scenes from Biarritz by night and by day.