Browsing: Film School

Writer-director Beth de Araújo, who is on the cover of our latest issue, might not have made her magnificent film Josephine if not for her experience at the American Film Institute. She certainly wouldn’t have made it the same way.

For the eighth consecutive year, Toronto Film School has been named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s 30 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada for 2026, joining a list that includes world-renowned institutions such as USC, NYU and the AFI Conservatory.

Ridley Scott arguably is, if not the greatest filmmaker in Hollywood, and he explains why.

About the Instructor: Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental filmmaker whose films have been screened worldwide. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc. — a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in…

On the morning of August 22, 2023, Pakistan watched eight people hang precariously from a cable-car gondola suspended hundreds of feet above a ravine in the village of Allai in northern Pakistan. The cable car had been carrying schoolchildren across a valley in Allai when two of its cables snapped.

1. School of Teacher Development, Chongqing University of Education, Chongqing, China

CLAREMORE, Okla. — Rogers State University partnered with the Cherokee Nation to allow the school’s film students to earn college credit for completing courses at the Cherokee Film Institute.

I used the Honor Robot Phone on the streets of Shenzhen. Katie Collins/CNET

Award-winning filmmaker and Director of Photography Emmet Harte is launching a new education and training initiative in Donegal aimed at giving young people practical, hands-on experience in filmmaking, documentary production, cinematography and visual storytelling.

I finished a scene on Lost Garden at two in the morning, watched it back four times, and felt nothing wrong with it. The isolation that comes with AI filmmaking is not about working alone in a room. It is about losing the other person whose job was to tell you when a shot doesn’t…