École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel
The École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ESAV - Graduate School of Audiovisual) is an educational institute in Toulouse that teaches aspects of filmmaking. It was created in 1978 under the leadership of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail and Guy Chapouillié. It issues Level 3 license, Master 1 and Master 2 certificates. The Master 2 leads eventually to a PhD course. The school has a library created in 1989 that holds more than 10,000 documents, mainly books and movies in the audiovisual field. It preserves and promotes the works of students of the school.