Brooklyn College (CUNY) - Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

From a mentorship perspective, I gained a lot. I also gained a lot from working on larger sets and leading those teams, and I'll say the undergrad students are super bright, passionate, and talented. Having them crew your films is a huge blessing.

In terms of launching a career, I'd need to know more about what you are trying to do post-grad. I have a day job and am sticking with that while I pay down loans, but I think I have the skills to throw my hat in the ring as a director or producer if I wanted to go after it, and I do believe my DePaul network would help. I'm in post for my first feature, and lots of that team was students I met at school, so in a way my MFA is already helping pay for itself just with the network I created. But I'm definitely more interested in low-budget indie films and would be happy to be able to have a career doing that while balancing another job (like teaching). I don't need to be a director 100% of the time all the time (Even though I'd LOVE it!)

I went to DePaul and actually just graduated earlier this year. Some of the directing program was 'under construction' so to speak while I was there, so there were some classes that were more useful and some that were less useful. I feel like that's probably the case at any school though since everyone comes in with different experience/interests/abilities.

There are some really fantastic, invested faculty at DePaul, and I am super grateful I met my thesis advisor. My cohort was also a major strength of the program, it was a really supportive group of creatives and in fact many of them I still work with outside of school. One thing I loved about my cohort was that it was small and everyone was interested in different genres/styles. It made for a great experience overall, even with some of the classes being lackluster (Editing and a class on post-production workflows and Proxies were a real drag).

Well it is an excellent film school. It allowed me to become Oscar Nominated. Prof Tutak is amazing and so is the rest of the faculty,

Thank you! My son applied and we will see what happens.

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Hi Joshua, I applied on Jan. 15, got an interview a month later, and heard back a month after that. So I got my acceptance a little over two months from my application date. Brooklyn goes by rolling admission, so the dates might vary based on the number of spots filled. Hope that helps!