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Film School MFA Acceptance Rates, Minimum GPAs, Decision Dates, and more... (UPDATED with 2019 stats)Just updated with the 2019 data. :) -
COLUMBIA FILM SCHOOL STUDENT PROFILE: Patrick Clement - Screenwriting & Directing MFAThank you! It was great chatting with you. Hopefully it helps people.
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CHAPMAN FILM SCHOOL STUDENT PROFILE: Danni (aka IndecisiveElle) Directing MFAhttps://www.filmschool.org/articles/film-school-student-profile-patrick-clement-columbia-screenwriting-directing-mfa.25/ Patrick's article is...
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CHAPMAN FILM SCHOOL STUDENT PROFILE: Danni (aka IndecisiveElle) Directing MFAThis is so cool! I love seeing an explanation of how things function at different programs.
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Film School MFA Application advice from Accepted Students
I asked some members of the site who were accepted to various Film School MFA programs some questions that would provide some advice to other aspiring applicants. If you are now in the process of applying to Film School or are thinking of applying, I hope that you find their responses helpful... -
Film School Interview Questions
This is a list of ACTUAL interview questions reported from posts from our members from the thousands of posts over the years on these boards. Please leave a reply in the discussion thread with any that you've had and I'll update the article. Also WEAR NICE CLOTHES TO YOUR INTERVIEW - as an AFI... -
How to Handle Rejections from Film School
You didn’t get in. Now what? First of all, you’re not alone. I’ve been there. If you want to read more about my personal experiences with rejection, I have a blog post on it. But what this article is going to focus on is the steps you can take now to either move on or improve your chances for... -
Film School MFA Acceptance Rates, Minimum GPAs, Decision Dates, and more... (UPDATED with 2019 stats)
Film Schools are often very tight lipped and secret about their acceptance rates and the minimum GPAs that they accept. However thanks to the over 1,900 applications (and counting) in the Application Tracker, we are able to get a pretty good idea of what these numbers might be. For example using...- Chris W
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Best Los Angeles Film Schools
(Photo by Miles Gehm) There are many places to attend film school but there's definitely something to be said to going to school in the heart of all of the action. Below is a listing of the top LA Film Schools and it's surrounding area ranked by the review system as of January 2019: USC...
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"I went to Columbia because I wanted to be a better storyteller and understanding structure... and I do think my storytelling
has gotten better...
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“Film School is still Graduate School... you're still getting a master's and there's still traditional work that has to be done. And a lot of...
One screenplay to be produced with a budget of approximately $1 Million Dollars and $100,000 in education grants awarded.
The LAUNCH: Million...
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(Photo by Miles Gehm)
There are many places to attend film school but there's definitely something to be said to going to school in the heart of...
What is the best film school program out there? There are certainly a lot of opinions on the matter. FilmSchool.org's community has it's own as...
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Film Schools are often very tight lipped and secret about their acceptance rates and the minimum GPAs that they accept. However thanks to the over...
(Cannes, France. Photo by Mario Lassnig)
Via Indiewire, I found some other neat tidbits from his Cannes interviews:
Knowing all the different...
(Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Rita Molnár)
At a Q&A session with Christopher Nolan at Cannes (he's showing a 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s...
CHICAGO — The Second City and DePaul University today announced a collaboration designed to expand comedy education. Starting in fall 2018...
(School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Photo by Joe Mabel)
Many people have asked on these forums if it's worth applying...
(Nebraska Union of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Photo by Ensign Beedrill)
At a commencement address at University of Nebraska-Lincoln...
(Avery Building on Columbia University, NYC Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia)
51 of the 54 Visual Arts MFA students at Columbia are demanding a...
(University of Iowa Schaeffer Hall. Photo by Bohao Zhao)
Joe Russo, the "Infinity War" director and University of Iowa Alumni, visited a High...
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You didn’t get in. Now what?
First of all, you’re not alone. I’ve been there. If you want to read more about my personal experiences with...
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I asked some members of the site who were accepted to various Film School MFA programs some questions that would provide some advice to other...
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So you want to go to Film School and you don't have a portfolio? First off... this is not a bad thing! Don't get turned off and think that film...
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This is a list of ACTUAL interview questions reported from posts from our members from the thousands of posts over the years on these boards...
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The following is a list of all of the Film School Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Application Deadlines for the 2017 - 2018 school year.
If there is a...