Portugália Film was founded in 1909 by João Costa Freire, Manuel Cardoso and Freire Correia, which went bankrupt in 1912.
The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) was created in Lisbon, by means of a legal diploma that converted the centennial and prestigious National Conservatory into multiple establishments specialized in those same artistic subjects, which had, until then, been taught at the Conservatory. ESTC was then created and dedicated to the teaching of Theatre and Cinema.
