Exclusively for our Supporting Members, this is the second part of our 1.5 hour interview with @Zeno, a film school coach, screenwriter, and director who works in New Mexico and Romania. In 2024, Zeno graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting.
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The cool thing about Columbia University is the cross-pollination that happens beyond your immediate program. I remember students from the playwriting program, which is part of the theater school, taking classes with us.
There are also many networking events where people from the business school come to meet us, which really helps with filmmaking because, at the end of the day, it’s a business. And we interacted a lot with people from the theater school and the...
FilmSchool.org is 100% advertisement free so without our Supporting Members, in-depth articles and interviews like this one would not be possible. Supporting Members also enjoy access to private student clubs and forums, our database that tracks upwards of 4,000 film school applications, and the full Acceptance Data statistics for each film program (such as AFI Screenwriting) that helps demystify common questions about how to construct a winning portfolio, ideal GPAs and GRE scores, and much more.
You can access the first part of our interview here.
Zeno (Columbia University MFA '24) on Storytelling and the Power of Networking (Part 1)
After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from UC Santa Barbara in 2003, @Zeno undertook various projects in the industry that paved the way for him to attend Columbia University School of the Arts. In 2024, Zeno graduated from Columbia’s film program with a Master of Fine Arts in...
- Alexa P.
- Category: Film Student Interviews
Columbia University seems to prize collaboration, notably in its shared first-year curriculum for graduate film students. What did that look like for you?
The cool thing about Columbia University is the cross-pollination that happens beyond your immediate program. I remember students from the playwriting program, which is part of the theater school, taking classes with us.
There are also many networking events where people from the business school come to meet us, which really helps with filmmaking because, at the end of the day, it’s a business. And we interacted a lot with people from the theater school and the...
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