The program encourages enrollment of students from all parts of the United States and from all over the world. No previous filmmaking experience is required. Students, however, must be prepared to live and breathe film in an intensive total immersion workshop with an extremely demanding schedule. As space is limited, we recommend early application to guarantee a place in the workshop of your choice. In the film workshops, each student writes, produces, directs, and edits his or her own films, and rotates among crew positions when his or her classmates shoot.
Students receive extensive hands-on experience as a result.
Every workshop is full-time, with classes or shooting organized nearly every day of the week. Students should also stroll through the boutiques of the Left Bank or go shopping at the world-famous flea market. For the film lover, Paris has more cinemas than any city in the world. Screenings of an incredibly wide range of work proliferate throughout the city, where classic silent films play alongside avant-garde and contemporary work. Students will edit on Steenbeck editing machines.