first team has given me back my self-confidence and my enthusiasm for acting. In addition to that, I have found the best place to receive film training techniques. Before knowing your foundation I had gone to many different acting schools. My problem was that I wasn’t absolutely convinced about any of them. Now I know the perfect place for me to learn. first team has an unique, friendly atmosphere in which students can improve and learn every day. I like everything about first team (…) above all I like the two of you. Your foundation is extremely worthy.

Lucía Parro. Madrid

first team on camera classes are perfect, because, you learn a lot about cinema and TV from the point of view of actors. The teachers have already experienced what the starting out actor will experience. Assumpta, Scott and all the first team technicians are professionals, serious and engaging. And, they really know how to give warmth to what might seem technical. They teach from experience and love. It is a real pleasure to learn like that.

Fani Gontá. Madrid

When I read Assumpta Serna’s book she seemed to me to be a very interesting and intelligent woman with a lot of experience and with plenty of anecdotes useful to someone just starting.

Estela Martínez Salvador, Barcelona

The idea of the Speed meetings with actors and directors at the San Sebastian International Film Festival is excellent. I congratulate the creative team who thought of first team. The workshop on “personal promotion” taught us a lot that no one else teaches: the process, the thinking and the results regarding how to promote a movie and oneself.

Chus de Castro, Madrid

“It is a pleasure to learn from wise people, with great love and respect for what it means to be an actor.”

Manuel Monteagudo, Sevilla

It has been a pleasure to meet and work with every single member of first team, and, it will be an enormous pleasure to keep collaborating with you and to help you, because, first team has to grow with the effort of us all.

Jimena la Motta, Madrid

If I have to point out a single thing, apart from the same team that helps and teaches us to play with the camera, the best is the way they all teach. It is personalized, clear and very professional. I enjoy learning with Assumpta and Scott. It is something one cannot find anywhere else: experience, talent, love and work… I’ve learned a lot and I apply it to my professional life. It is the best experience I’ve lived as an actor.

Adrián Viador, La Coruña

(…)I hope that today you both have the same spirit as you did back then, because, the style of teaching using humor is rare among actors, who are used to working with pressure and pain. You allow us to believe we are the best “creative” factors… Thank you for teaching us to be friends of the camera and for showing us that many things cannot be taught, that we learn through living our lives.

José Manuel Seda, Sevilla

I was sailing to an adventure every day with an impressive crew, the make up artist, production, the interns and all of those needed to coordinate the trip… At the end, in the master class, I saw an angel that day, without going to the museum of angels. Events like these are only possible at first team, where Lucía Bosé was saying how wonderful a partner Marcello Mastroniani was on the set, or, how she became one of the best actresses of her time after selling cakes and how she had preferred to become a mother and a better person. I also learned that day that perhaps my destiny is to sell burgers and dream of two angels: Scott and Assumpta.

Sara Jiménez, Madrid.

(…) I left the Canary Islands two years ago and came to Madrid… I’d left my homeland because nobody was able to fulfill my needs there. I was in Madrid, such a big city full of schools lacking in what I was just looking for… Then I heard about first team. I can’t remember exactly the date nor the way I met them; but I decided to join them and started working as a volunteer devoting all my time to this great family. I want us to continue growing day by day, sharing our work and love for this profession with all actors and directors.

Saida Fuentes, Madrid

…I was in the International intensive Workshop in August 2008 in Córdoba, Argentina. I was there just as a listener, but, I really felt active thanks to the quality and warmth in your master class… Your “little secrets” and all that work you did with actors and directors in front of everybody helped me a lot. I treasure one thing: The teaching to value the human being, the person and the teamwork that makes the technique a lovable thing between people. I’m sure that we will pass the same message to the spectator, educating, informing, entertaining, and in the end, loving him. We will not just show a product for the spectator to consume. Life and art deserve people and artists like you both. I hope the Foundation will have all the success it deserves. Keep working and expand the foundation throughout the world.

María Luisa Peveraro, Córdoba (Argentina)