The Hollywood Reporter – August 14, 2019

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Top 25 Film

Schools

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International

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Welcome

AFTRS is proud to rank

among The Hollywood

Reporter’s top 15

international film schools.

Follow in the footsteps of

Jane Campion, Warwick

Thornton and Cate Shortland.

Enquire now about our

Master of Arts Screen,

offered in 10 disciplines.

Applications now open for

international students.

aftrs.edu.au/international

The Dam

Director

Brendon McDonall,

Master of Screen Arts

2014

TUITION $21,633 (undergrad, out-of-

state); $33,022 (grad, out-of-state)

ALUMNI Marvel Studios vp produc-

tion and development Stephen

Broussard, Fear the Walking Dead’s

Kelsey Scott

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ARTCENTER COLLEGE

OF DESIGN

PASADENA

A new 3,800-square-foot

and Gaylyn Fraiche, Reese
Witherspoon’s producing partner.
The facilities are impressive and
include a high-tech production
studio and a greenscreen larger
than anything found on either
coast. “Everything you need is
here: the education, the tools,
the creative city of Austin as a
canvas,” gushes McConaughey,
who often returns to teach. “All
you need to do is bring your point
of view.”
TUITION $10,314 to $11,852 (under-
grad, in-state); $36,716 to $42,082
(undergrad, out-of-state); $10,848
(graduate, in-state); $17,312
(graduate, out-of-state)
ALUMNI Marcia Gay Harden, Mark
and Jay Duplass, Wes Anderson

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F LO R I DA S TAT E
UNIVERSITY
TALLAHASSEE
Barry Jenkins and his crew of
schoolmates put FSU on the map
with Moonlight, but they aren’t
the only successful graduates.

Michael Bay teamed with ArtCenter students as they filmed at the Santa Fe Dam. This photo was used in a 1989 school catalog.

designer, gaffer, editor and even

boom operator.” She adds that

FSU alumni stick together, even

when not making a Barry Jenkins

movie. “After graduation, 15 of

us caravanned out to L.A.,” she

says. “We slept on the couches

of the alums who graduated the

year before us, and the next year

our couches were occupied by the

class below us.”

Lauren Miller Rogen (’03), writer

and director of Netflix’s Like

Father, credits the school with

teaching her pretty much every-

thing she knows. By graduation,

she says, “not only had I written,

directed and produced four short

films — on which I didn’t spend

a single dime of my own money

— I had crewed on more than

50 short films as a DP, production