The Hollywood Reporter – August 14, 2019

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Top 25 Film

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Moretz and Kiki Layne). In fact,

the festival has been such a

hit, SCAD has been launching

spinoffs, like AnimationFest,

GamingFest and aTVfest. When it

comes to learning, students have

access to the sound-

stages at nearby

Savannah Film

Studios as well as the

60,000-square-foot

SCAD Digital Media

Center located 250 miles away

in Atlanta (worth the trip for the

4K cameras).

TUITION $37,575 (undergrad),

$38,475 (graduate)

ALUMNI Stuntman Clayton Haskell,

Rocksauce Studios founders

Steven Walker, Q Manning and

Peter Yoder

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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK

Just because you’re

going to Syracuse doesn’t mean

you have to stay in Syracuse. The

upstate New York school offers

players; visiting mentors this past

year included screenwriter Zak

Penn, The OA creator Brit Marling,

Winston Duke and Beau Bridges,

who is shooting his documentary/

feature hybrid Acting: The First

Six Lessons at the Studio Labs

this summer.

TUITION $43,710

ALUMNI Editors Andrew Halley and

Jason Letkiewicz

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SAVAN NAH CO LLEG E

OF ART AND DESIGN

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

Backlash to the state’s new

anti-abortion laws hasn’t had

much impact on this coastal

southern campus. The school’s

annual Savannah Film Festival

— smack in the middle of the

fall awards season — will

likely continue to attract big

names (last year’s attendees

included Hugh Jackman, Emily

Blunt, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Armie

Hammer, John Krasinski, John

David Washington, Chloë Grace

TUITION $42,008 (undergrad);
$44,362 (graduate)
ALUMNI Michael Bay, cin-
ematographers Don Burgess and
Shelly Johnson

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RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL
OF DESIGN
PROVIDENCE
It’s an art school, so it’s ...
artsy. Shorts shot by students
screened at this year’s Cannes
and Sundance film festivals
while assistant professor Ramón
Rivera-Moret’s do c u ment a r y on
Joseph Pulitzer aired on PBS’
American Masters. Also, class of
’79’s Robert Richardson (Quentin
Ta r a n t i n o’s long t i me DP) won
a lifetime achievement award
from the American Society of
Cinematographers and RISD’s
most famous grad, Gus Van Sant
(’75), earned kudos for his latest,
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on
Foot, at the Berlin Film Festival.
According to Drumline director

Charles Stone III (’88), the school’s

free-range style of teaching

promotes “a holistic approach to

being creative” that

encourages students

“to explore beyond

your major.”

TUITION $52,860

(undergrad)

ALUMNI Seth MacFarlane,

Mary Lambert, Martha Coolidge,

Ryan Cunningham

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RINGLING COLLEGE OF

ART + DESIGN

SARASOTA, FLORIDA

The school’s centerpiece — the

Studio Labs complex — is finally

complete, with a ribbon cutting

in November on its third and

final building, a postproduc-

tion facility that includes more

than 5,000 square feet of editing

suites, dubbing bays, a final color

room and a complete Foley sound

effects stage. Despite being 2,500

miles from Hollywood, the cam-

pus continues to attract industry

Lambert

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