Beijing Film Academy is a teaching and research university founded by the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the people of China and the Ministry of Education. Known as "the cradle of film talents in China".

The predecessor of Beijing Film Academy was the Performing Arts Research Institute of the Central Film Bureau founded by 1950. 195 1, the college was renamed the Film Academy of the Film Bureau of the Central Ministry of Culture, 1953, renamed the Beijing Film Academy, 1956, and restructured into the Beijing Film Academy.

20 15 June official website information shows that the main campus of Beijing Film Academy covers an area of 105 mu. Huairou Campus (under construction) covers an area of about 667 mu with a total investment of about 2.8 billion yuan. The first phase of the project is expected to be put into use on 20 19. The school has 2640 full-time students, including adult education undergraduates 1.500, international students, on-the-job graduate students and postgraduate courses, and more than 4000 students of all kinds. There are 499 faculty members, including 263 full-time teachers; Under the jurisdiction of 15 teaching implementation units, support each other. Literature, reading guidance, forms, photography, recording, beauty, management, animation, film and television theory and technology and other undergraduate majors 1 1, and there are 3 authorized points for doctoral and master's degrees.