Film Schools

<p>Does anyone have a link or know of any good film schools? . . . preferably ones that are reputable in general academics as well. I have heard USC and UCLA are good. My brother is interested and he doesn't share the same obsession with college search and admissions as I do.</p>

<p>NYU is another one.</p>

<p>has been discussed frequently over the years, but not lately. You might want to access the old board and do a search. </p>

<p>Generally the three best are USC, UCLA, and NYU. UCLA is the smallest and admission isn't until your third year. You can be admitted as a first year student at the other two. For many schools it's two separate admissions; one to the general university and one to the film school. You have to be admitted to the former before the latter will consider you. At USC the academic credentials are generally higher for the film students than other students although the film school has less interest in standardized testing. </p>

<p>Many, many colleges have film programs/departments/schools including a number of the top universities like Princeton and Duke and LACs like Middlebury. Publics like FSU and Texas have outstanding film programs as does a private like Northwestern. A number of schools like Columbia specialize in film at the graduate level.</p>

<p>There's lots and lots of possibilities, but the three listed up top are the best undergraduate progrsmd (and graduate) in terms of location. teachers, equipment, networking, and opportunities.</p>

<p>I'm sure I've forgotten some but this should get you started.</p>

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<p>I see you are from Colorado. Boulder has a film program; it's not up there with the top three, but it might be a way of seeing if film is really what you want without making the huge financial committment called for by USC and NYU and UCLA for non-residents.</p>

<p>I am applying to film schools, this is the info I have gathered...
NYU is best for students interested in directing and writing while USC is generally known for people interested in working in Hollywood (note: blatant generalization). UCLA film is not great for under grad...very limited resources and mostly have to compete with grad students (similar to NYU in this respect) Anyway, ug film at Wesleyan, Northwestern is excellent as well (though mostly cinema studies). Harvard also has an amazing program. Yale is known for acting and so attracts some film under grads. If really depends on if you're interested in production versus cinema studies (generally in a more liberal arts setting). Some of the best film programs are avaible over seas (although they are insanely competitive with internationals) at the English Board, Denmarks school of film (spawned the dogma 95 movement with lars) and the school of film at Prague. If you have any questions or anything send me a message or something.</p>

<p>I have a kid in Northwestern's School of Communication who is majoring in radio/tv/film.
It is NOT mostly cinema studies. He is majoring in Film production and sound. There are many history of film courses as well as lots of film production courses. There also are some screenwriting courses. Penn just elevated its Cinema studies minor to a major with a few production courses here and there.</p>

<p>Loyola Marymount University and Chapman University (both in los angeles) are two private universities with very good film programs. One benefit of these two schools are that they are smaller than USC or NYU, meaning more individual attention and a better chance at snagging valuable equipment. </p>

<p>This site should be helpful: <a href="http://filmmaker.com/reviews.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://filmmaker.com/reviews.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>When I refered to Northwestern's cinema studies program, I meant the cinema studies program is excellent (as in many resources). No insult to Northwestern at all...</p>

<p>Eventhough it may only be a grad program, I've heard Stanford has an excellent documentary film program. Several of my co-workers went there, and they do great work.</p>

<p>Safiamilke -- Didn't think you were insulting Northwestern's Film program. Just wanted to point out it's more production than cinema studies/theory.</p>

<p>SUNY Purchase has a good film school.</p>