There is no special accreditation for film schools and none even for teachers. So It's caveat emptor, as warned in Chapter 45. The schools listed in this chapter are affiliated with professional bodies, but you should use all your research powers to determine a school's reputation and what you can expect to get from its education.
The first list is schools affiliated with the University Film and Video Association (UFVA), an up-to-date version of which can be seen on the Internet via www.ufva.org/ under “About UFVA.” A way to find out more is to look at the UFVA Job Listings, which often describe the facilities at an institution seeking teachers.
Another way to check reputations is the Web site www.filmmaker.com, which includes some lengthy and often sulphurous film school reviews. These are by students, and you should read them gingerly for tendencies and peripheral information, generally discounting anything written by those who can't spell or punctuate. Being free and anonymous, it is a great place for malcontents to unload spleen, but common denominators among the reviews may help you avoid a costly mistake. Avoid trade schools and anything that offers to give you the complete, no-nonsense lowdown in a weekend. Film school is like medical school. It takes several years of hard learning to come out with something useful.
These mainly North American schools will have Web sites you can find by entering the school name in an Internet search engine. Their facilities and expertise will vary hugely.
This list of schools affiliated with the international film schools association, Centre Internationale de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télélvision (CILECT) can be found in its latest version on CILECT's Web site (www.cilect.org/), organized by country. Clicking on a film school either gives you a form that lists standard information or links you directly to the school's own Web site. The + sign before a phone or fax number indicates the overseas telephone code that you must first dial in your own country to make any international call. The numbers that follow are the country code, the area or city code, and finally the school's phone number.
Carrera de Diseño de Imagen y Sonido
Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pabellón 3
Cuidad Universitaria
1248 Buenos Aires
Tel: +54 11 4789 6279
Fax: +54 11 4576 3205
Escuela de Experimentación y de Realización Cinematográfica
Moreno 1199
1191 Buenos Aires
Tel/Fax: +54 11 43 84 67 04
Universidad del Cine
Pasaje Giuffra 330
1064 Buenos Aires
Tel: +54 11 4300 1407
Fax: +54 11 4300 0674
Australian Film and Television School (AFTRS)
Corner Balaclava Road & Epping Highway
Box 126, North Ryde
N.S.W. 2113
Tel: +61 2 9805 6401
Fax: +61 29805 6563
Victorian College of the Arts
School of Film & Television
234 St. Kilda Road
Melbourne, Victoria 3004
Tel: +61 3 9685 9000
Fax: +61 3 9685 9001
Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien
Abteilung “Film und Fernsehen”
Metternichgasse 12
1030 Wien
Tel: +43 171155 2902
Fax: +43 171155 2999
Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel
Departement RITS
Moutstraat 15
1000 Brussel
Tel: +32 2 507 14 11
Fax: +32 2 507 14 56
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel
Paleizenstraat 70
1030 Brussel
Tel: +32 2 250 11 00
Fax: +32 2 250 11 11
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD)
Rue des Wallons, 77
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel: +32 10 47 80 20
Fax: +31 10 45 11 74
Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS)
Rue Thérésienne 8
1000 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 511 9286
Fax: +32 2 511 0279
Escola de Comunicações e Artes
Universidad de São Paulo
Av. Prof. Lucio Martins Rodrigues, 443
Cidade Universitaria CEP 05508-900
São Paulo
Tel: +55 11 818 4020
Fax: +55 11 211 2752
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Multimeios
Instituto de Artes
CP6159
13083-970 Campinas/SP
Tel: See CILECT Web site
Fax: See CILECT Web site
Nacionalna Academia za Teatralno i Folmovo Izkoustvo (NATFIZ) “Krustyo Sarafov”-Sofia
Rakovski Street 108a
Sofia 1000
Tel: +359 2 87 98 66
Fax: +359 2 89 98 66
New Bulgarian University
Dept of Mass Communications
21 Montevideo Str.
1635 Sofia
Tel: +359 2 9571629
Tel/Fax: +359 2 955 5291
Programme de Formation à l'Image et au Son (PROFIS)
Direction de la Cinématographie Nationale
01 BP 647 Ouagadougou 01
Tel: +226 30 17 85
Fax: +226 30 17 84
The School of Image Arts
Ryerson Polytechnic University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3
Tel: +1 416 979 5167
Fax: +1 416 979 5139
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Module de communications
Case Postale 8888, succursale A
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3P8
Tel: +1 514 987 3759
Fax: +1 514 987 4650
York University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Dept of Film & Video
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
Tel: +1 416 736 5149
Fax: +1 416 736 5710
Institut National de l'Image et du Son (INIS)
301 Boulevard De Maisonneuve, Est
Montréal (Québec) H2X 1K1
Tel: +1 514 285 1840
Fax: +1 514 285 1953
Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación (UNIACC)
School of Audiovisual Communications
Avenida. Salvador 1200
Providencia, Santiago
Tel: +56 2 640 6000
Fax: +56 2 640 6200
Beijing Broadcasting Institute
No. 1 Ding Fu Zhang Dong Jie
Chao Yang District
Beijing 100024
Tel: +86 10 6577 9359
Fax: +86 10 6577 9138
Beijing Film Academy (BFA)
Xi Tu Cheng Lu 4
Haidian District
Beijing 100088
Tel: +86 10 8204 8899-295
Fax: +86 10 8204 2132
The Hong Kong School for Performing Arts
School of Film and Television
1 Gloucester Road
GPO Box 12288
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2584 8679
Fax: +852 2802 4372
Hong Kong Baptist University
School of Communication
Dept of Cinema & Television
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2339 7395
Fax: +852 2339 7821
Zhejiang Radio and Television College
22 East Zhoushan Road
Hangzhou 310015
Tel: +86 571 8801 0127
Fax: +86 571 8801
Akedemija Dramske Umjetnosti (ADU)
Trg Marsala Tita 5
10 000 Zagreb
Tel: +385 1 482 85 06
Fax: +385 1 482 85 08
Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV)
Ap. Aéreo 40/41
San Antonio de los Baños
Tel: +53 7 335 196
Fax: +53 7 335 341
Akedemie Múzickych Umeni Filmová a Televisni Fakulta
Filmová a televisni fakulta, (FAMU)
Smetanovo Nábr. 2
116 65 Prague 1
Tel: +420 2 24 22 91 76
Fax: +420 2 24 23 02 85
Den Danske Filmskole
Theodor Christensens Plads 1
DK 1437 Copenhagen K
Tel: +45 32 68 64 00
Fax: +45 32 68 64 10
The European Film College
Carl Theodore Dreyersvej 1
8400 Ebeltoft
Tel: +45 86 34 08 55
Fax: +45 86 34 05 35
Academy of Arts
High Cinema Institute
Pyramids Road
Gamal El Din El Afghany Str.
Giza
Tel: +202 58 68 203
Fax: +202 561 1034
Arcada Nylands Svenska Yrkeshögskola
Institutionen för Media
Skogsmansgränden 3,
02130 Esbo
Tel: +358 9 52 53 21
Fax: +358 9 52 53 2333
Lahti Polytechnic
Institute of Design—Department of Film and TV
Pl 92 Saimaankatu 11
15141 Lahti
Tel: +358 3 82 82 855
Fax: +358 3 82 82 854
University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH)
Media Centre LUME
Department of Film and TV
Hämeentie 135 C
00560 Helsinki
Tel: +358 9 756 30111
Fax: +358 9 634 303
Turku Polytechnic, Arts Academy
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu, Taideakatemia
Linnankatu 54
20100 Turku
Tel: +358 1055350
Fax: +358 105535202
Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière
7 Allée de Promontoire
B.P. 22
Marne-la-Vallée
93161 Noisy-le-Grand Cédex
Tel: +33 1 48 15 40 10
Fax: +33 1 43 05 63 44
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son (FEMIS)
6 rue Francoeur
75018 Paris
Tel: +33 1 53 41 21 00
Fax: +33 1 53 41 02 80
Institut Internationale de l'Image et du Son (IIIS)
Parc de Pissaloup
F-78190 Trappes
Tel: +33 1 30 69 00 17
Fax: +33 1 30 50 43 63
Atelier de Réalisation Cinématographique (VARAN)
6 Impasse Mont-Louis
75011 Paris
Tel: +33 1 43 56 64 04
Fax: +33 1 43 56 2902
Ecole Supérieure d'Audiovisuel (ESAV)
Université Toulouse Le Mirail
5 Allées Antonio Machado
31058 Toulouse Cédex
Tel: +33 5 61 50 44 46
Fax: +33 5 61 50 49 34
The Georgian State Institute of Theatre and Film
Film and TV Department
Rustaveli Avenue 19
380008 Tbilisi
Tel/Fax: + 995 32 99 73 88
Filmstudium Universität Hamburg
Institut für Theater, Musiktheater und Film
Friedensallee 9
22765 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838 4143
Fax: +49 40 42838 4168
Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Potsdamer Strasse 2
10785 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 25759 0
Fax: +49 30 25759 161
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Mathildenstraße 20
71638 Ludwigsburg
Tel: +49 (0)7141 969 0
Fax: +49 (0)7141 969 299
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film
Frankenthalerstrasse 23
D-81539 München
Tel: +49 89 689 57 0
Fax: +49 89 689 57 339
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film “Konrad Wolf”
Marlene-Dietrich Allee 11
14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg
Tel: +49 331 6202 0
Fax: +49 331 6202 199
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Television and Film Dept
Peter-Weller Platz 2
D-50676 Köln
Tel: +49 221 201 890
Fax: +49 221 201 89124 {
National Film & Television Institute (NAFTI)
Private Mail Bag — GPO
Accra
Tel: +233 21 71 76 10
Fax: +233 21 77 71 59
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos
65 Patission Str.
104 33 Athens
Tel: +30 1 8230 124
Fax: +30 1 8211 651
Szinház — es Filmmüvészeti Egyetem
Szentkirályi U. 32/a
1088 Budapest
Tel/Fax: +36 1 318 5533
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)
Law College Road
Pune 411 004
Tel: +91 20 543 10 10
Fax: +91 20 543 04 16
Institut Kesenian Jakarta Fakultas Film dan Televisi (IKJ)
Jl. Cikini Raya No. 73
Jakarta 10330
PO Box 4014
Jakarta 10001
Tel: +62 21 324 807
Fax: +62 21 323 603
DunLaoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Kill Avenue
DunLaoghaire
Co. Dublin
Tel: +353 1 214 4655Fax: +353 1 280 3345
Camera Obscura
School of Art
5 Rival Street
Tel Aviv 67778
Tel: +972 6368430
Fax: +972 3 688 1025
Ma'ale School of Television, Film and the Arts
20 Shivtey Israel St.
Jerusalem 95105
Tel: +972 2 6277366
Fax: +972 2 6277331
The Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
4 Yad Harutzim St.
Talpiot Industrial Zone
Jerusalem 91103
Tel: +972 2 6731950
Fax: +972 2 6731949
Tel Aviv University
Film and Television Department
The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts
Ramat-Aviv — Tel Aviv 69978
Tel: +972 3 640 9483
Fax: +972 3 640 9935
Scuolo del Cinema e di Televisione
Via Ariberto 14
20123 Milano
Tel: +39 02 89408858
Fax: +39 02 89408857
Nuova Università del Cinema e della Televisione
Via Tiburtina 521
00159 Rome
Tel: +39 06 43599892
Fax: +39 06 43599859
Scuola Nazionale di Cinema
Via Tuscolana 1524
00173 Rome
Tel: +39 06 722 94247
Fax: +39 06 72 11 619
Zelig
School of Documentary, Television and New Media
Via Carducci, 15a
I — 39 100 Bolzano
Tel: +39 0471 977930
Fax: +39 0471 977931
Japan Academy of Moving Images
1-16-30 Manpukuji
Kawasaki-shi
Kanagawa 245
Tel: +81 44 951 2511
Fax: +81 44 951 2681
College of Art
Department of Cinema
2-42-1 Asahigaoka
Nerima-Ku
Tokyo 176-8525
Tel: +81 3 5995 8220
Fax: +81 3 5995 8229
Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC)
Film Production Training Department
PO Box 42422
Nairobi
Tel: +254 2 540 820
Fax: +254 2 554 566
Université St. Joseph
Institut d'Etudes Scéniques, Audiovisuelles et Cinématographiques
Damascus Road
Beyrouth
Tel: +961 1 611456
Fax: +961 1 611362
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC)
Czda. de Tlalpan 1670 Esq Rio Churubusco
México 21, D.F. 04220
Tel: +52 5 420 44 90
Fax: +52 5 420 44 92
Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Adolfo Prieto 721 (Colonia del Valle)
México D. F. 03100
Tel: +52 5 687 3862 / 5288
Fax: +52 5 536 1799
Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Tel: +31 20 527 73 33
Fax: +31 20 527 73 55
The National Film Institute
7 Gbadamosi Close,
P.O. Box 693
Jos, Plateau State
Tel: +234 73 463 625
Fax: +234 73 561 233
Den Norske Filmskolen
Pb. 1004
2626 Lillehammer
Tel: +47 61 28 80 00 (Switchboard)
Fax: +47 61 28 81 10
University of the Philippines
Film Center (UP Film Center)
Magsaysay Avenue
P.O. Box 214
Diliman
Quezon City 1101
Tel: +63 2 92 63640/50286
Fax: +63 2 92 62722
Państwowa Wyźsza Szkola Filmova i Teatralna (PWSFTviT)
Targowa 61/63
90-323 lódź
Tel: +48 42 674 39 43
Fax: +48 42 674 81 39
Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema
Departamento de Cinema
Av. Marquês de Pombal 22-B
2700-571 Armadora
Tel: +351 21 498 94 00
Fax: +351 21 493 76 20
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Departamento de Som e Imagem
Rua Diego Botelho 1327
4150 Porto
Tel: +351 22 619 62 95 or 351 22 619 62 00
Fax: +351 22 619 62 91
Universitatea de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica “I.L. Caragiale” (UATC)
Facultatea de Film si TV
Str. Matei Voievod 75-77
73224 Bucuresti
Tel/Fax: +40 1 252 58 81
Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)
Wilhelm Pieck Str. 3
Moscow 129226
Tel: +7 095 181 3868
Fax: +7 095 187 7174
St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television (SPIC&T)
Pravda Str. 13
191126 St. Petersburg
Tel: +7 812 315 72 85
Fax: +7 812 315 01 72
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
School of Film and Media Studies
535 Clementi Road
Singapore 599489
Tel: +65 460 6992
Fax: +65 462 5617
Vysoka Škola Muzicky̌ch Umeni (VŠMU)
Filmová a televisna fakulta
Ventúrska 3
813 01 Bratislava
Tel: +421 2 59 301 461
Fax: +421 2 544 321 82
Akademija za Glendalisce Radio Film in Televizijo (AGRFT)
University of Ljubljana
Nazorjeva 3
1000 Ljubljana
Tel: +386 1 2510 412
Fax: +386 1 2510 450
Escuela des Artes Visuales
Fuencarral 45, 4
28004 Madrid
Tel: +34 91 523 17 01
Fax: +34 91 523 17 63
Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM)
Juan de Orduña 3
Ciudad de la Imagen
Pozuelo de Alarcón
28223 Madrid
Tel: +34 915 12 10 60
Fax: +34 915 12 10 70
Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC)
Immaculada 25-35
08017 Barcelona
Tel: +34 3 212 15 62
Fax: +34 3 417 26 01
Escuela de Cine y Video (ESKIVI)
Avda. Ama Kandida s/n.
20140 Andoain (Guipúzcoa)
Tel: +34 943 59 41 90
Fax: +34 943 59 15 62
Dramatiska Intitutet (DI)
University College of Film, Radio, Television, and Theatre
Borgvägen 5
Box 27090,
102-51 Stockholm
Tel: +46 8 665 13 00
Fax: +46 8 662 14 84
School of Photography and Film
Konstepidemins Väg 2A
Box 540
SE 40530 Göteborg
Tel: +46 31 773 43 44
Fax: +46 31 773 18 37
Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne
Département Audiovisuel
46 rue de l'Industrie
1030 Bussigny
Tel: +41 21 702 92 15/01
Fax: +41 21 702 92 09
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts
Section Cinéma/Vidéo
2 rue Général Dufour
Genève 1204
Tel: +41 22 311 05 10
Fax: +41 22 310 46 36
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
Studienbereich Film/Video
Limmatstrasse 65
8005 Zürich
Post address: P.O. Box 8031 Zurich
Tel: +41 1 446 23 57
Fax: +41 1 446 23 55
National Taiwan University of Arts
No. 59 Section 1 Da-Kuan Rd.
Pan-Chiao
Taipei, Taiwan 220
Tel: +886 2 2272 2181 x354
Fax: +886 2 2968 7563
National Film and Television School (NFTS)
Beaconsfield Film Studios
Station Road,
Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 1LG
Tel: +44 1494 731472
Fax: +44 1494 671213
The Leeds School of Art, Architecture and Design
Film and Moving Image Production
Leeds Metropolitan University
2 Queen Square
Leeds LS2 8AF
Tel: +44113 283 1900
Fax: +44 113 283 1901
London Film School (LFS)
24 Shelton Street
London WC2H 9UB
Tel: +44 207 836 9642
Fax: +44 207 497 3718
National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image (NAHEMI)
London Guildhall University
Dept of Communications
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel: +44 208 566 5673
Fax: +44 208 320 3009
University of Westminster
School of Communication, Design and Media
Harrow Campus Studios
Northwick Park
Harrow HA 1 3TP
Tel: +44 207 911 5000
Fax: +44 207 911 5943
American Film Institute (AFI)
PO Box 27999
2021 North Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Tel: +1 323 856 7711
Fax: +1 323 856 7884
Chapman University
School of Film & TV
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
Tel: +1 714 997 6715
Fax: +1 714 997 6572
California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS)
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: +1 661 253 7825
Fax: +1 661 253 7824
Columbia College Chicago
Film/Video Department, Columbia College
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1996
Tel: +1 312 344 6701
Fax: +1 312 344 8044
Columbia University
Film Division
513 Dodge Hall, School of the Arts
116th Street and Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Tel: +1 212 854 2815
Fax: +1 212 854 7702
Florida State University
School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts
A3102 University Center
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2350
Tel: +1 850 644 8968
Fax: +1 850 644 2626
Loyola Marymount University
School of Film and Television
7900 Loyola Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045-8230
Tel: +1 310 338 7532
Fax: +1 310 546 2363
New York University (NYU)
Tisch School of the Arts
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
721 Broadway
New York, NY 10003 6807
Tel: +1 212 998 1800
Fax: +1 212 995 4040
North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Filmmaking
1533 S. Main Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27117
Tel: +1 336 770 1330
Fax: +1 336 770 1339
Stanford University [documentary program only]
Dept of Communication
McClatchy Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-2050
Tel: +1 650 723 4700
Fax: +1 650 725 2472
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
School of Theater, Film and Television
Dept of Film & Television
East Melnitz
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: +1 310 825 7741
Fax: +1 310 206 1686
University of Southern California (USC)
School of Cinema and Television
University Park Campus
850 West 34th Street, Lucas 209
Los Angeles CA 90089-2211
Tel: +1 213 743 2804
Fax: +1 213 740 7682
The Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema
Truong Dai Hoc San Khau Va Dien Anh
Mai Dich
Caugiay
Hanoi
Tel: +84 4 764 33 97
Fax: +84 4 834 87 32
Fakultet Dramskih Umetnosti (FDU)
Bulevar Umentnosti 20
11070 Beograd
Tel: +381 11 140 419
Fax: +381 11 130 862