Schools
If you wish to get the best film jobs it always helps to have skills and training, choose a school based on its contacts with industry, the background of the staff and wether or not there is a high output of quality student films.
List of most film schools in the ‘western’ world. If you know of any I have missed please email info@filmjob.info
Featured School: The Film School (Wellington, New Zealand)
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Academy of Arts, The Department of Drama (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
Act Capetown International (Cape Town, South Africa)
The Art Institute of Tennessee – Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Nashville Tennessee
The Art Institute of Dallas – Video Production Program | Dallas Texas
The Art Institute of Houston – Video Production Program | Houston Texas
The Art Institute of Salt Lake City – Video Production Program | Salt Lake City Utah
afilm International Film Workshops (Sitges, Barcelona, Spain)
APA International Film Schools (Sydney, Australia)
Ariege Arts DV Filmmaking (Ariege-Pyrenees, France)
Asia Pacific Film Institute (Manila, Philippines)
Asian Academy Of Film & Television (Noida, India)
Australian Film, Television & Radio School (various locations, Australia)
American Film Institute | Los Angeles California
The Art Institute of Washington – Film Programs | Arlington Virginia
The Art Institute of Portland, Digital Film & Video Program | Portland oregon
The Art Institute of Philadelphia – Film Programs | Philadelphia Pennsylvania
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Video Production Program | Pittsburgh
The Art Institute of Charlotte, Video Production Program | Charlotte North carolina
The Art Institute of Ohio - Video Production Program | Cincinnati Ohio
Pennsylvania
Adventure Film School (Boulder, CO)
Alpha Pacific Institute (Phoenix, Arizona)
American University School of Communication (Washington, D.C.)
American Intercontinental University-Buckhead (Atlanta, Georgia)
American Intercontinental University – South Florida (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Arizona State University School of Theatre and Film (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design Film Program (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Aria Films | Jamul California
The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | San Francisco California
The Art Institute of California – Sunnyvale, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Sunnyvale California
The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | San Francisco California
The Art Institute of California – Sunnyvale, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Sunnyvale California
The Art Institute of Phoenix – Video Production ProgramThe Art Institute of Phoenix – Video Production Program | Phoenix Arizona
The Art Institute of Seattle – Video Production Program | Seattle Washington
Ames Media Institute | Naples Florida
The Art Institute of Tucson – Digital Filmmaking & Video | Tucson Arizona
The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles, Film Programs | Los Angeles California
The Art Institute of California – Sacramento, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Sacramento California
The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | San Francisco California
The Art Institute of California – Sunnyvale, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Sunnyvale California
Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA)
The Art Institute of Las Vegas, Video Production Program | Las Vegas Nevada
American Intercontinental University – Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
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Berkeley Digital Film Institute (Berkeley, California)
Brooks Institute (Santa Barbara, CA)
Baltic Film and Media School (Tallinn, Estonia)
Bond University Centre for Film, Television & Screen-Based Media (Gold Coast, Australia)
Brooks Institute | Santa Barbara California
Brown Mackie College | Cincinnati Ohio
Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)
Blue Ridge Motion Pictures Film Institute (Asheville, North Carolina)
Boston University Film Program (Boston, Massachusetts)
Brooklyn College Department of Film (Brooklyn, NY)
Burlington College, Department of Cinema Studies and Film Production
Brooklyn College, Film Department | Brooklyn
(Burlington, VT)
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Columbia College Hollywood | Tarzana California
Collins College | Tempe Arizona
City College of New York, CUNY, Media & Communication Arts Department | New York
CalArts School of Film and Video (Valencia, CA)
California State University, Dominguez Hills Digital Media Arts Program (Carson, California)
California State University, Fullerton Department of Radio-TV-Film Department
California State University, Long Beach Film & Electronic Arts (Long Beach, CA)
California State University, Los Angeles Television/Film/and Media Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
California State University, Monterey Bay Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department (Monterey Bay, CA)
California State University Northridge Department of Cinema and Television Arts (Northridge, California)
Cinema Arts Tech (Los Angeles, CA)
Chapman University School of Film and Television (Orange, CA)
Columbia College Hollywood (Tarzana, CA)
(Fullerton, CA)
Colorado Film School | Denver Colorado
The Center For Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University District of Columbia
California College of the Arts, Media Arts | San Francisco California
California Institute of the Arts, School of Film/Video | Valencia California
Chapman University | Orange California)
Central Film School London (London, England)
Centre for Arts and Technology (Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada)
Centro (Mexico City, Mexico)
CICE – Escuela Profesional de Nuevas Technologias (Madrid, Spain)
CityVarsity School of Media & Creative Arts (Cape Town, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Columbia Academy – Video and Film Production (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Conservatoire Libre du Cin�ma Fran�ais CLCF (Paris, France)
CRAFT: Center For Research in Art of Film and Television (Delhi, India)
CRAFT (Costa Rica Art, Film & Television) Media Course (Tamarindo, Costa Rica)
Carolina Film Institute (Greenville, SC)
Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts)
Cleveland State University Film and Digital Media Program (Cleveland, Ohio)
College of Santa Fe Moving Image Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
Collins College (Tempe, AZ)
Colorado Film School (Denver, Colorado)
Columbia University Film Division (New York, NY)
Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
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DePaul University Center for Cinema and Interactive Arts (Chicago, Illinois)
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Digital Film Academy of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Digital Film School (Dublin, Ireland)
Digital Studio College (Jakarta, Indonesia)
The Documentary Center, The George Washington University (Washington D.C.)
The Documentary Institute, The University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)
Darwin Mitchell | Agua Dulce California
Dell’Arte International, School of Physical Theatre | Blue Lake California
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Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design and Media (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Ecole Superieure Libre d’Etudes Cinematographiques (Paris, France)
EICAR – The International Film School Of Paris (Paris, France)
Elstree Film School (Borehamwood, England)
ESCAC (Barcelona, Spain)
e Scape Movieworks Inc. (Vancouver, Canada)
Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon, Portugal)
Escuela de Cine y Television Septima Ars (Madrid, Spain)
Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisi�n (San Antonio de los Ba�os, Cuba)
Escuela de Cinematograf�a y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM) (Madrid, Spain)
Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional (ESDIP) (Madrid, Spain)
ESEC (Paris, France)
Etobicoke School of the Arts (Toronto, Ontario,Canada)
European Film Actor School (EFAS) (Zurich, Switzerland)
The European Film College (Ebeltoft, Denmark)
Emerson College: Department of Visual & Media Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
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Filmakademie Baden-W�rttemberg (Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Film and Television School Of The Academy Of Performing Arts In Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
FAMO – Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek (Pisek, Czech Republic)
Film School Zlin (Zlin, Czech Republic)
The Film Workshops Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico)
Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco, CA)
Film Connection (Los Angeles, CA)
Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)
Femis (Ecole nationale superieure des metiers de l’image et du son) (Paris, France)
Film Akademie (Baden-W�rttemberg, Germany)
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune (Pune, Maharashtra, India)
Film and Television Institute of Tamilnadu (Chennai, India)
Fairfield University New Media Film, Television and Radio Program (Fairfield, CT)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Visual and Performing Arts Department (Teaneck, NJ)
Fitchburg State College Communications Media Department (Fitchburg, MA)
Flashpoint Academy of Media Arts & Sciences (Chicago, IL)
Florida State University Film School (Tallahassee, FL)
Full Sail Real World Education (Winter Park, FL)
FIDM/The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising | Los Angeles | Orange County | San Francisco | San Diego California
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Grand Valley State University Film & Video Production (Allendale, MI)
Global Media Adventures Documentary Films Program (Samara, Costa Rica)
Griffith University Film School (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
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Hero Film School (Hollywood, CA)
The Hollywood Film and Acting Academy (Hollywood, CA)
Howard University, John H. Johnson School of Communications
Hollins University, Film & Photography Department | Roanoke Virginia
Hollins University, Coed Graduate Program in Screenwriting & Film Studies | Roanoke Virginia
Hamburg Media School (Hamburg, Germany)
Hochschule f�r Film und Fernsehen (HFF) Konrad Wolf (Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany)
Hochschule f�r Film und Fernsehen Munich (Munich, Germany)
Humber College – Film & Television Production (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
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Indiana University/Department of Communication and Culture (Bloomington,IN)
Industry Film Schools (Shrewsbury, NJ)
The International Film Institute of New York (New York, NY)
Ithaca Film School (Ithaca, NY)
The Jason Bennett Actor’s Workshop (New York, NY)
Institut National Superieure des Arts du Spectacle (Brussels, Belgium)
Instituto Ruso Mexicano De Serguei Eisenstein (Mexico City, Mexico)
The International Film School Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
International Academy of Film and Television (Cebu, Phillipines)
International Film College (Gold Coast, Australia)
International Film School Wales (Newport, Wales, UK)
Italian National School of Cinema (Rome, Italy)
The Icelandic Film School (Reykjav�k, Iceland)
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Kinema Escuela de Cine (Bilbao, Spain)
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Langara College Digital Film Production Program (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Langara College Film Arts Program for Actors, Writers and Directors (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Leeds Metropolitan University Northern School of Film and Television (Leeds, UK)
Lillehammer University College Film School (Lillehammer, Norway)
London Film Academy (London, UK)
London Film School (London, UK)
Los Angeles City College, Department of Cinema and Television | Los Angeles California
Loyola Marymount University, School of Film and Television | Los Angeles California
Los Angeles City College Department of Cinema and Television (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Feature Film Academy (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Film School (Hollywood, CA)
Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (Los Angeles, CA)
Las Vegas School Of Film (Las Vegas, NV)
Lawrence University Department of Theatre Arts (Appleton, WI)
Lights Film School (New York, NY)
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Minneapolis Community and Technical College – Cinema Division (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Montana State University – Department of Media and Theatre Arts (Bozeman, Montana)
Motion Picture Institute of Michigan (Troy, Michigan)
Mediatech Institute (Dallas/Austin/Houston, Texas)
Miami Dade Community College School of Entertainment and Design Technology (Miami, FL)
Middlebury College Film-Video Program (Middlebury, VT)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Media Arts Program (Minneapolis, MN)
Minnesota State University-Moorhead (Moorhead, MN)
Musicians Institute – Film Institute of Technology (Hollywood, CA)
MadArts – Jaspal Bhatti Film School (Mohali, India)
Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center (San Juan, Philippines)
Masterclass Ludwigsburg/Paris (Ludwigsburg, Germany and Paris, France)
Maurits Binger Filminstituut (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
Metropolis: Escuela de Cine y Arte Dram�tico (Madrid, Spain)
Metropolitan Film School (London, UK)
Mimar Sinan University – Turkish Film and TV Institute (Istanbul, Turkey)
Motion Picture Driving Clinic | Palmdale California
MultiMedia Arts | La Mesa California
Mediatech Institute | Dallas Texas
Motion Picture Institute of Michigan | Troy Michigan
Minneapolis College of Art and Design | Minneapolis Minnesota
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New York Film Academy – School of Film & Acting | New York City
New York Film Academy, Universal Studios (Hollywood, CA)
New York Film Academy – School of film & Acting | Disney/MGM Studio Florida
Narafi Film School (Brussels, Belgium)
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria)
National College of Arts (Lahore, Pakistan)
National Film and Television School (Beaconsfield, UK)
National Film School of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
New Media Technology College (Dublin, Ireland)
New Renaissance Florence (Florence, Italy)
New Zealand Film Academy (Auckland, New Zealand)
Noroff Instituttet (Oslo, Norway)
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia (Singapore)
New York Film Academy Film School (New York, NY)
NYU – Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Film and Television (New York, NY)
North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
New York Film Academy – School of Film & Acting | Universal Studios Hollywood California
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Orange Coast College Department of Film (Costa Mesa, CA)
Orange County High School of the Arts (Santa Ana, CA)
Ohio University School of Film (Athens, OH)
Ohio University, School of Film | Athens Ohio
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Pittsburgh Filmmakers, School of Film, Video & Photography | Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Palm Beach Community College Motion Picture and Television Production Program (Palm Beach, Florida)
Palm Beach Film School (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Point Park University, Cinema and Digital Arts (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Pacific Audio Visual Institute (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Participate Film Academy (Sydney, Australia)
Prague Film School (Prague, Czech Republic)
Platt (Media Arts) College | San Diego California
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Queen’s University Department of Film Studies (Kingston, Canada)
Queensland School of Film and Television (Queensland, Australia)
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Regent University School of Communication & the Arts (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
Rochester Institute of Technology School of Film and Animation (Rochester, New York)
Red Deer College Department of Motion Picture Arts (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada)
Russian State Institute of Cinematography (Moscow, Russia)
Ryerson Polytechnic – Image Arts, Film, Photography, New Media (Toronto, Canada)
Regent University, Department of Cinema Arts, Television Arts and Theatre Arts | Virginia Beach
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago Illinois
Southern Illinois University, Cinema & Photography | Carbondale Illinois
SAE Institute, Byron Bay – World Headquarters (Byron Bay, Australia)
SAE Institute Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
SAE Institute London (London, UK)
The School of Media Arts and Imaging, Time Based Art and Digital Film (Dundee, Scotland, UK)
Screen Academy Scotland at Napier University (Dundee, Scotland, UK)
Scuola di Cinema Pigrecoemme (Naples, Italy)
Screenwise (Surry Hills, Australia)
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST)
Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, School of Animation,Arts & Design (Oakville, Ontario, Canada)
The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance
Staffordshire University Department of Media and Entertainment Technology
Stavrakos Academy (Athens, Greece)
Septima Ars School of Cinema and TV (Madrid, Spain)
Saint Joseph’s University, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Film Studies | Philadelphia Pennsylvania
SAE Institute of Technology> | Nashville Tennessee
Sundance Institute | Salt Lake City Utah
The South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance
Southseas Film School (Auckland, New Zealand)
South Thames College Film School (London, UK)
Summer School in Filmmaking at Melbourne University (Melbourne, Australia)
Sydney Film School (Sydney, Australia) (Karachi Pakistan) (Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa) (Staffordshire, UK) (Johannesburg and Capetown, South Africa)
San Diego State University School of Communication (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking (San Francisco, CA)
San Francisco State University Cinema Department (San Francisco, CA)
San Jose State University Department of Television, Radio, Film, and Theatre
Stanford University Graduate Program in Documentary Film & Video (Stanford, CA)
Steinlein Productions (Los Angeles, CA) (San Jose, CA)
Seattle Film Institute | Seattle Washington
School of Visual Arts MFA Social Documentary Film | New York City
San Diego State University, Television, Film, and New Media | San Diego California
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking | San Francisco California
San Francisco State University, Cinema Program | San Francisco California
Stunts-Ability | San Diego California
Saint Augustine’s College Theatre and Film Program (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, Georgia)
Scottsdale Community College Film Program (Scottsdale, Arizona)
Seattle Film Institute (Seattle, Washington)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Cinema and Photography (Carbondale, Illinois)
Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Public Communications (Syracuse, NY)
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Temple University, Department of Film and Media Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Trident Technical College Program of Film, Media and Visual Arts (Charleston, SC)
Toronto Film College (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Toronto Film School (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
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University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Fine Arts Departments, Department of Film | Las Vegas Nevada
University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies, Entertainment Administration
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication (London, UK)
University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) (Quezon City, Philippines)
University of Westminster Film School, Harrow Campus (London, UK)
University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) (Vancouver, Canada)
University of California – Berkley, CinemaSpace | Berkeley California
University of California – Los Angeles, Theater, Film & Television | Los Angeles California
University of Texas at Austin – College of Communication, Department of Radio, Television & Film | Austin Texas
University of the Pacific, Film Studies | Stockton California
University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television | Los Angeles California
University of Utah – College of Fine Arts, Film Studies | Salt Lake City Utah
The University of Arizona, Department of Media Arts | Tucson Arizona
UK National Film & Television School (Beaconsfield, UK)
Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts (Auckland, New Zealand)
Universidad de la Sabana (Bogot�, Colombia)
Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Universidad Manuela Beltran (Bogot�, Colombia)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia)
Universidade Lusofona (Lisbon, Portugal)
Universitatea Hyperion (Bucharest, Romania)
Universitatea Media (Bucharest, Romania)
Universitatea Nationala De Arta Teatrala Si Cinematografica (Bucharest, Romania)
University College Dublin Centre for Film Studies (Dublin, Ireland)
University of Applied Sciences: Audiovisual Media/Cinematography (Berlin, Germany)
University of California, Los Angeles Professional Programs in Screenwriting and Producing (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Los Angeles School of Film, Theater, and Television (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Los Angeles Extension’s Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts Department (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Riverside’s Media and Cultural Studies Program
University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts (San Diego, CA)
University of California, Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media Program (Santa Cruz,California)
University of Southern California School of Cinema Television (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Southern California School Summer Film School (Los Angeles, CA) (Riverside, CA)
University of Toledo, Department of Theatre and Film | Toledo Ohio
University of Tulsa, Film Studies | Tulsa Oklahoma
The University of The Arts | Philadelphia Pennsylvania
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Department of Film and Television (Helsinki, Finland)
University of Kansas, Department of Theatre and Film | Lawrence Kansas
University of Miami, School of Communication, Video & Film | Coral Gables Florida
University of New Orleans, Drama & Communications | New Orleans Louisiana
The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Chicago Illinois
The Illinois Institute of Art – Schaumburg, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Schaumburg Illinois
Thrillseekers Unlimited, Hollywood | Hollywood California
The Los Angeles Film School | Hollywood California
The Art Institute of Colorado – Film Programs | DenverJ Colorado
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking California
The Art Institutes International | Kansas City Kansas
New York Film Academy – School of Film & Acting | Harvard University (Cambridge) Massachusetts
The New England Institute of Art, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Boston Massachusetts