Hey everyone - I just finished my first year in the program (was a dream come true, 10/10 would recommend).
I wanted to extend myself/my experience to you all and answer any questions you may have about what Year 1 is like. Feel free to ask here or hit up my DM’s
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Hello everyone,
I’m looking to bring on 1 to 2 moderators to help keep the forums active, welcoming, and useful for applicants.
This is a volunteer role, but moderators will also get all of the Supporting Member benefits for free as long as they stay active in their roles.
Requirements:
Active member on FilmSchool.org
Current film student, alumni, or serious applicant
Mature, fair, and level-headed
Able to check in a few times per week
Main Responsibilities:
Welcoming new members...
A place has come open in our MFA Screenwriting cohort for Fall 2026 following a late withdrawal, and we’d like to fill it from the strong writers already moving through this year’s cycle rather than wait until next year.
The MFA carries full funding: full tuition remission plus a graduate assistantship stipend of roughly $21,000 a year. It runs for three years and is deliberately small: eight writers total across all cohorts. Teaching is workshop-based and focused on developing original...
The NEW Keyword Alerts feature has launched for Supporting Members! :)
If you are a Supporting Member and click on your user menu, there is now a Keyword Alerts link. On the Keyword Alerts page, you are able to create alerts and create a list of keywords so that every time a new post, application, article, review, blog, or comment on the site is posted that matches one of your keywords you'll be notified.
In the image above you can see that I've made alerts for keywords related to...
Film Schools rarely if ever share or gather alumni employment statistics. (Although some do - thank you!) I thought it to would be helpful to current applicants if we could start building a database of Alumni Employment Outcomes similar to our very helpful Application Database that our members contribute to. If film schools don't always track employment outcomes, alumni success, and ROI, then we will! :)
To that end, I created a pretty extensive Google Form to get the process rolling. If...
I’m thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to the Admissions Statistics on FilmSchool.org, a milestone made possible by our dedicated Supporting Members and the more than 5,000 entries logged in our application database.
We’ve introduced a suite of powerful new tools to both our application and program-specific pages, now including 45 charts that break down admission rates by undergraduate degree, age, re-applicant frequency, portfolio, and more. We’ve also added comprehensive interview...
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