The International School of Film and Television  (EICTV) was founded on December 15, 1986 in San Antonio de Los Baños, Artemisa. This educational center was created as a subsidiary of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation in order to train new filmmakers.

The parents of this educational project were writer and journalist, Gabriel García Márquez and filmmakers Fernando Birri and Julio García Espinosa who sought to establish the school for students from Latin America, Africa and Asia. The opening ceremony was attended by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, as president of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation; the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz; Julio García Espinosa, president of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, ICAIC; Fernando Birri, Argentinian filmmaker, poet, actor and first director of the institution; members of the Committee of Latin American Filmmakers, as well as students and workers of the center.  

This educational institution is in charge of training specialists in audiovisual disciplines, with a non-profit purpose. At the beginning, the EICTV was designed for students of underdeveloped countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia; for this reason the school was recognized as "The School of Three Worlds". At present its program of study includes more countries, incorporating some from the European continent and others from America, therefore today it is "The School of all Worlds’’. In 1993, the center received the prize ‘’Roberto Rossellini’’ at Cannes. This award is granted to works, creators or institutions that represent the spirit of progress and humanism, characteristics of the Italian director. Among the specialties taught in the center are: Fiction Direction, Documentary Direction, Production, Film Script, Television and New Media, Photography, Sound and Edition.

The International Film and Television School is recognized for its work around the world. Many personalities visit and collaborate with the center. Thirty years after its foundation, it maintains its objective: to train artists of a high aesthetic and technical level with an ethical concept, capacity for dreaming, critical vision of the world, deep concern and positive position against barbarism, injustice and oppression.