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"Study Abroad: The Top 15 International Film Schools" by "The Hollywood Reporter". The Lodz Film School takes 2nd place!
From Germany to Korea, these schools have produced some of cinema’s greatest visionaries.
The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School got 2nd place.
1. National Film and Television School Grads of the NFTS, located near London, grabbed half of the 2014 BAFTA shorts nominations, three awards at Cannes and all three major CILECT (International Association of Film and TV Schools) world film school awards -- a first for any school. "NFTS is the U.K. equivalent of USC and AFI," says cinematographer Larra Anderson, director of the Northern Film School in Leeds. "Many of the schools on the THR list seem to look to their (often distant!) past," adds Virgin Records co-founder Nik Powell, director of NFTS, which was founded in 1971. "NFTS, while being able to name outstanding auteurs like Terence Davies and commercial filmmakers such as David Yates, looks for its glories from its present generation." The NFTS offers master's degrees in multiple disciplines, including directing, composing, animation and special effects.
2. Lodz Film School The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, founded in 1948, has launched a pantheon of cinema greats including Oscar winner Roman Polanski. Says spokesman Krzysztof Brzezowski, "What differentiates the film school from others is the possibility of working with professional 35 mm film stock." More than 300 student projects are created each year in the school's production studio, half of them in 35 mm.
3. La Femis The Paris alma mater of Francois Ozon, Louis Malle and Patrice Leconte is located in the old Pathe Studios, where the Lumiere brothers essentially invented filmmaking in 1894. All instruction is in French, and there are exchange programs with CalArts and Columbia University, which has sent 48 Hrs. screenwriter Larry Gross and Homicide: Life on the Street writer Frank Pugliese to teach Hollywood storytelling.
4. FAMU At Prague's Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, lecturers have included such alums as writer Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and director Milos Forman (Amadeus). FAMU has exchange programs with U.S. schools including NYU, Syracuse and Emerson College. About 450 students study in Czech, about 100 in English -- but like Czech citizens, American students who study in Czech pay zero tuition.
5. Norwegian Film School Created in 1997 in Lillehammer using facilities from the 1994 Winter Olympics, NFS played a key role in the Netflix success story when Sopranos star (and member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street band) Steven Van Zandt convinced the streaming service to make Lilyhammer, its first original series, using lots of NFS talent. "Netflix was ballsy!" says Van Zandt. "They'd already bought House of Cards, and if we were not cool, it could have damaged their $100 million-whatever investment." The artistic collaboration was so fruitful, says NFS dean Thomas Stenderup, that "we joined Steven and his partner David John Smith to establish a worldwide TV drama festival in 2015."
The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School got 2nd place.
1. National Film and Television School Grads of the NFTS, located near London, grabbed half of the 2014 BAFTA shorts nominations, three awards at Cannes and all three major CILECT (International Association of Film and TV Schools) world film school awards -- a first for any school. "NFTS is the U.K. equivalent of USC and AFI," says cinematographer Larra Anderson, director of the Northern Film School in Leeds. "Many of the schools on the THR list seem to look to their (often distant!) past," adds Virgin Records co-founder Nik Powell, director of NFTS, which was founded in 1971. "NFTS, while being able to name outstanding auteurs like Terence Davies and commercial filmmakers such as David Yates, looks for its glories from its present generation." The NFTS offers master's degrees in multiple disciplines, including directing, composing, animation and special effects.
2. Lodz Film School The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School, founded in 1948, has launched a pantheon of cinema greats including Oscar winner Roman Polanski. Says spokesman Krzysztof Brzezowski, "What differentiates the film school from others is the possibility of working with professional 35 mm film stock." More than 300 student projects are created each year in the school's production studio, half of them in 35 mm.
3. La Femis The Paris alma mater of Francois Ozon, Louis Malle and Patrice Leconte is located in the old Pathe Studios, where the Lumiere brothers essentially invented filmmaking in 1894. All instruction is in French, and there are exchange programs with CalArts and Columbia University, which has sent 48 Hrs. screenwriter Larry Gross and Homicide: Life on the Street writer Frank Pugliese to teach Hollywood storytelling.
4. FAMU At Prague's Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, lecturers have included such alums as writer Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and director Milos Forman (Amadeus). FAMU has exchange programs with U.S. schools including NYU, Syracuse and Emerson College. About 450 students study in Czech, about 100 in English -- but like Czech citizens, American students who study in Czech pay zero tuition.
5. Norwegian Film School Created in 1997 in Lillehammer using facilities from the 1994 Winter Olympics, NFS played a key role in the Netflix success story when Sopranos star (and member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street band) Steven Van Zandt convinced the streaming service to make Lilyhammer, its first original series, using lots of NFS talent. "Netflix was ballsy!" says Van Zandt. "They'd already bought House of Cards, and if we were not cool, it could have damaged their $100 million-whatever investment." The artistic collaboration was so fruitful, says NFS dean Thomas Stenderup, that "we joined Steven and his partner David John Smith to establish a worldwide TV drama festival in 2015."