Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Oscar winner Margaret Sixel (editing, Mad Max: Fury Road) attended, as did Jane Campion and Philip Noyce.
Beijing Film Academy
The USC of the East, this Chinese school boasts alumni from art house stars (like Jia Zhangke) to Sino film mainstays (like Zhang Yimou).
Centro De Capacitacion Cinematografica
Mexico’s top film school is certainly affordable — $900 a year. Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (The Wolf of Wall Street) is an alumnus.
Centro Sperimentalde Di Cinematografia
This 82-year-old Roman film school gave birth to Italian Neorealism; Dino De Laurentiis and Michelangelo Antonioni went here.
Famu
This Prague institution offers English-language courses to its largely international student body.
The Film Academy
Austria’s leading film school counts Oscar director nominee Michael Haneke (Amour) and nominee Gotz Spielmann (Revanche) among its faculty.
Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg
Europe’s top animation and special effects school is in the cartoon-sounding Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Russia’s oldest and best-known film school — founded in 1919 — it once had Sergei Eisenstein on the faculty.
La Femis
This old Parisian school (Louis Malle’s alma mater) has a new dean, who’s updating the curriculum to make it more (zut alors!) commercial.
Lodz FIlm School
Poland’s top film school has churned out Oscar winners like Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda.
National Film and Television School
Nick Park and Roger Deakins’ old school — in Beaconsfield, England — is undergoing a $26 million expansion.
Universidad Del Cine
It’s Argentina’s best-known film school; Wild Tales‘ Damian Szifron learned to point a camera here.
Korean Academy of Film Arts
It has produced more than 600 grads since starting in 1984, including Korean superstar Bong Joon Ho.
RTA School of Media at Ryerson University
At this Toronto school with L.A. roots, 30 students come to Hollywood every year for mentorships with pros like showrunner Joel Surnow.
The Sam Spiegel Film & Television School
Named after the legendary On the Waterfront producer, this Jerusalem school boasts David Lynch and Wim Wenders as honorary fellows.
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