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Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Oscar winner Margaret Sixel (editing, Mad Max: Fury Road) attended, as did Jane Campion and Philip Noyce.
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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).
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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.
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Centro Sperimentalde Di Cinematografia
This 82-year-old Roman film school gave birth to Italian Neorealism; Dino De Laurentiis and Michelangelo Antonioni went here.
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Famu
This Prague institution offers English-language courses to its largely international student body.
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The Film Academy
Austria’s leading film school counts Oscar director nominee Michael Haneke (Amour) and nominee Gotz Spielmann (Revanche) among its faculty.
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Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg
Europe’s top animation and special effects school is in the cartoon-sounding Ludwigsburg, Germany.
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Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Russia’s oldest and best-known film school — founded in 1919 — it once had Sergei Eisenstein on the faculty.
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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.
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Lodz FIlm School
Poland’s top film school has churned out Oscar winners like Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda.
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National Film and Television School
Nick Park and Roger Deakins’ old school — in Beaconsfield, England — is undergoing a $26 million expansion.
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Universidad Del Cine
It’s Argentina’s best-known film school; Wild Tales‘ Damian Szifron learned to point a camera here.
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Korean Academy of Film Arts
It has produced more than 600 grads since starting in 1984, including Korean superstar Bong Joon Ho.
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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.
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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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