The Hollywood Reporter – August 14, 2019

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 97 AUGUST 14, 2019

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Rajski (who won a short film

Oscar in 1995) also has struck

up a partnership with Village

Roadshow for a program in which

five graduates each get $10,000

to produce a short. Says Shay

Hatten (’16), co-writer of John

Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, “My

first script that got me repre-

sentation grew out of a writing

exercise for one of my classes

there. [LMU] provides a frame-

work to generate a lot of material

that doesn’t have to be great.

Slowly, you improve.”

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LOYOLA MARYMOUNT

UNIVERSITY

LOS ANGELES

The just-opened Playa Vista

campus — which includes three

greenscreen studios, eight

Avid editing rooms and a Foley

stage — was only the begin-

ning. Next year, new dean Peggy

Rajski breaks ground on the

Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion,

a 25,000-square-foot struc-

ture equipped with a screening

theater, a camera-teaching stage

and a motion-capture workspace.

herself got in on the act, with her

film, South Mountain, showing

at SXSW.

TUITION $62,912 (graduate)

ALUMNI Kathryn Bigelow,

James Mangold, Jennifer Lee,

Moira Demos, Kahane Cooperman

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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

Looks like Jeanine

Basinger — the renowned scholar

who started the film program

in the 1960s and who has been

rumored to be on the verge of

retirement for years — will be

sticking around long enough to

see the opening of The Basinger

Center for Film Studies. The

newly renamed and renovated

space is getting an additional

16,000 square feet, including a

new soundstage and cinema. But

it turns out Basinger, 83, isn’t the

only beloved longtime profes-

sor at the school. Says Warner

Bros. film chief Toby Emmerich

(’85): “Richard Slotkin’s ‘Wester n

Movies: Myth, Ideology and

Genre’ was pound for pound the

best class I ever took. I obviously

can’t speak for Michael Bay [’86]

or Joss Whedon [’87], but when I

watch their stuff, I feel like I see a

lot of Slotkin learning in there.”

TUITION $72,758 to $74,908

(undergrad)

ALUMNI Akiva Goldsman,

D.B. Weiss, Lin-Manuel Miranda,

Jon Turteltaub, Jenno Topping

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CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY

ORANGE, CALIFORNIA

Retiring dean Bob

Bassett has been great at raising

money and drawing Hollywood

talent to the school’s Anaheim-

adjacent campus. Taste in

campus art has been problematic

(a 1915 Birth of a Nation poster

finally was taken down in April

after two years of complaints),

but the college added VR and

AR minors to its course work

and, this fall, it’ll host producer

Bill Gerber (A Star Is Born) as

filmmaker-in-residence. “The on-

campus atmosphere is extremely

down-to-earth,” notes veteran

producer Michael Phillips (The

Sting, Ta x i D r i v e r), who taught at

Chapman and remains a member

of the school’s advisory board.

“Learning to make films is pre-

sented as a joy rather than a high

Olympian art.”

TUITION $54,540 (undergrad);

$45,124 (graduate)

ALUMNI Matt and Ross Duffer,

Justin Simien, Carlos Lopez Estrada

Midsommar director Ari Aster (right) and producer Alejandro De Leon (AFI class of 2010).

From top: Mexico’s

Centro de Capacitación

Cinematográfica; Hong

Kong Academy for

Performing Arts School

of Film and TV

between academia and

the industry. ECAM

brings in hundreds

of professionals each

year, including alumni,

to work directly with

students (about 110 are

admitted annually).

ESCOLA LIVRE DE CINEMA

The Brazilian school

offers technical training

(rather than a regular

college degree) and

access to 16mm equip-

ment and developing

help. Alumni include

Gabriel Martins and

Maurílio Martins (In the

Heart of the World) and

Thiago Macêdo Correia,

who together co-

founded the prominent

indie production com-

pany Filmes de Plástico.

HOCHSCHULE FÜR FILM

AND FERNSEHEN

Munich’s storied

academy offers degrees

in everything from

directing and produc-

ing to cinematography,

screenwriting and

VFX. The Hochschule

also has the advantage

of being tuition free — if

you can get past its

notoriously tough admis-

sions board.

LA FEMIS

The French school has

an Oscar winner at the

helm: The Artist director

Michel Hazanavicius,

who was appointed head

of the board of directors

in July. The filmmaker,

who has gained a

reputation as a fierce

protector of the French

financing system as the

government seeks to

cut funding, will hold

the seat for the next

three years.

NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL

OF DENMARK

The film school for

every movie Dane of

note, including Bille

August, Susanne Bier

and Lars von Trier,

Denmark’s national

film school requires

fluency in Danish, and all

applicants must pass an

entrance test includ-

ing practical exercises

and interviews before

being admitted.

RTA SCHOOL OF

MEDIA AT RYERSON

UNIVERSITY

The prestigious Toronto

institution includes

programs for media

production, sport media

and new media as

well as a Los Angeles

bootcamp. Visits to the

National Association of

Broadcasters convention

prepare grads for the

fast-changing entertain-

ment industry.

LODZ FILM SCHOOL

Founded in 1948,

Poland’s national film

school numbers three

Oscar winners among its

alumni: Roman Polanski,

Andrzej Wajda and

Zbigniew Rybczynski.

Holders of honorary

doctorates include

Martin Scorsese, Michael

Haneke and famed cin-

ematographer Vittorio

Storaro.

NATIONAL FILM AND

TELEVISION SCHOOL

The latest alums from

the U.K.’s best-known

film and TV college —

which has a new director

in Jon Wardle — include

Laurie Nunn, creator

of the Netflix hit Sex

Education, and 2019 grad

Alice Seabright, who’ll

be directing the second

season. Damien Chazelle

was among those giv-

ing master classes the

past year.

THE SAE INSTITUTE

Offering 18-month and

two-year bachelor

programs in audio engi-

neering, cross-media

production, digital film

production, VFX and

3D animation, Zurich’s

SAE is part of a network

of technical institutes

spanning 26 countries,

making networking after

graduation all the easier.

THE SAM SPIEGEL FILM &

TELEVISION SCHOOL

Founding director

Renen Schorr will be

stepping down from

the Jerusalem, Israel,

school in November,

having completed The

Jerusalem Trilogy, his

feature series with top

alumni that is set to be

screened around the

world at stops including

New York’s MoMA, the

Toronto Cinematheque

and the Barbican Centre

in London.