The Hollywood Reporter – August 14, 2019

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Top 25 Film

Schools

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• Photography

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• Directing


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• Cinematography


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BACHELOR’S DEGREE

• Photography

alma mater has a new chair —

Noah Isenberg, author of a 2017

best-seller about Casablanca,

among other books — who’ll

soon be teaching courses on Billy

Wilder, film noir and screwball

comedy. Production designer

Adriana Serrano (Jill Soloway’s

Afternoon Delight) also has joined

the faculty, while the school’s

guest speaker series has been

featuring lectures by industry

experts like BlacKkKlansman

producer Raymond Mansfield

you’re just focused on that,”

he tells THR. “We were left to

our own devices — if we failed,

we failed, if we succeeded, we

succeeded.”

TUITION $46,080 (undergrad,

out-of-state); $46,406 (graduate,

out-of-state)

ALUMNI David Gordon Green,

Peter Hedges, Travis Beacham

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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

AUSTIN

Matthew McConaughey’s

facilities, which include studio
space for AR, VR and 3D model-
ing. But the best thing about
Emerson? According to What We
Do in the Shadows writer Stefani
Robinson (’14), it’s the school
spirit. “After class, before class,
on the weekends — we were
constantly there,” she says of the
school’s on-campus theater. “I
remember it feeling like a really
exciting time, like I was absorbing
films in a totally different way.”
TUITION $48,560 (undergrad);
$20,416 to $30,624 (graduate)
ALUMNI Norman Lear, Adele Lim,
Henry Winkler, Iliza Schlesinger

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UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
WINSTON-SALEM
This tiny Southern film school —
890 undergrads, 152 grads — just
lost its dean to AFI (see No. 4), but
it still has the 30,000-square-foot
New Media Building that Ruskin

helped install on campus that

houses the school’s departments

of animation, production, motion

capture, gaming, digital design

and visual effects. Two new MFA

programs were recently added

— producing and screenwriting

— while undergrads still learn

to shoot on 16mm. According to

Hearts Beat Loud director Brett

Haley (’05), the school’s biggest

selling point is its size. “You’re

in this small town and you’re

surrounded by other artists and

Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (’93, in the headband) taught a course in February 2018 at his alma mater, University of Texas at Austin.

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