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"Filmmaking is the finest profession in the world." Florian Gallenberger should know. He studied film directing at HFF Munich. His film Quiero ser won a Student Academy Award, directly followed by an Oscar for a best short film. Today, Florian Gallenberger continues to make movies while teaching students as an honorary professor at HFF Munich. Do you, too, the dream of making filmmaking your profession? At HFF Munich, one of the most renowned film schools in German-speaking countries, you can choose one of five study courses. Since its founding in 1966, or instead, since instruction began in 1967, HFF Munich has trained tomorrow's movie talents. The school's illustrious alumni include Caroline Link, Doris Dörrie, Bernd Eichinger, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Wim Wenders, and Roland Emmerich. During the early years, classes were held in a villa in Schwabing until their relocation to a former bed-spring factory in Munich's Giesing section in 1988. Finally, in September 2011, the school moved to its newly built facility in the heart of the Munich art district. Here, all our study programs have been united under one roof. From its film and television studios to a separate post-production wing, plus its three screening rooms – our center offers all the facilities needed to make both filmmaking and film study the slightest activity in the world. HFF Munich offers five-degree programs: Feature Film and Television Feature (Dept. III) Film and Television Documentary (Dept. IV) Production and Media Business (Dept. V) Screenplay (Dept. VI) Cinematography (Dept. VII) The course offerings within the disciplines Media Studies (Dept. I) and Technology (Dept. II) are required curricula for all students. It is not possible to apply for a course of study restricted to these subjects. Students seeking a more in-depth understanding or specialization can take advantage of the particular study schemes and subdepartments offered by Departments II to VII: VFX (specialization / Dept. II), Film Editing (specialization / Dept. III & IV), Television Journalism (subdepartment / Dept. IV), Advertising (subdepartment / Dept. V), Creative Writing (specialization / Dept. VI), Serial Storytelling (specialization / Dept. VI) or Image, Light, Space (specialization / Dept. VII). HFF Munich students can also apply for the extension course in collaboration with the August Everding Bavarian Theater Academy: Theater, Film and Television Criticism. To inform, comment, and analyze with images – the Television Journalism Subdepartment's mission is to train young, politically alert, and engaged journalists with excellent professional, creative and personal skills. Journalists bear great responsibility – they provide orientation in an increasingly complex world. They convey information and knowledge, providing the basis for a life in democracy and freedom. They can only fulfill this task if they have received good journalistic training. This is what the Television Journalism Subdepartment stands for: Individual projects of our students have been nominated for the German Human Rights Film Award and the CNN Journalist Award and have been viewed on German television and at renowned festivals. As part of their primary studies, students in the Documentary Film department can major in journalistic television work and specialize accordingly – from current news journalism to long reportages. The study program's objective is to learn journalistic skills, recognize the laws of the market, and, above all, develop innovative forms. Professor Doris Dörrie has headed the Creative Writing program and defined its content since January 1997: "First and foremost, writing is a craft. Practicing. Continuing, keeping at it. Whether it is art, you find out much later. That is my main goal in my work with students: To consider writing a craft while also losing one's fear. " Doris Dörrie: Über das Schreiben (On Writing) In the creative process, access to one's creativity can quickly become buried by fear and doubt – but there are many ways to return to creativity and imagination. With our students, we practice discovering buried treasures and the joy of their retrieval. Our courses cover a broad spectrum, reflecting the variety of creative spaces we open up with our students. For an exhibition, for example, we turned the entire HFF lobby into a public show. The students experienced a "Writer's Room" 's the creative potential, where they collectively developed and immediately produced a Web series. Each year we take our new students on a project week abroad – one of our most essential seminars, which opens students up to totally new writing experiences while also yielding our annual edition. We highly value openness, curiosity, and networking, which is why we offer frequent interdisciplinary projects for HFF students from all disciplines. Often of international renown, our lecturers bring in new impulses and developments worldwide while combining creative joy with significant craft experience. Our chair belongs to Department VI – Screenplay. Since its founding in 2005, Department VI – Screenplay has rounded out this university's education profile and is headed by Prof. Michael Gutmann. The composition of the department curriculum is a joint effort. For more information, go to Curriculum or Projects & editions. View full university

A groundbreaking collaboration between two of Australia's longest-standing private institutions – the Actors College of Theatre & Television (ACTT) and the International Film School Sydney (IFSS) – AFTT is Australia's most immersive contemporary creative arts academy. A groundbreaking collaboration between two of Australia's longest-standing private institutions – the Actors College of Theatre & Television (ACTT) and the International Film School Sydney (IFSS) – AFTT is Australia's most immersive contemporary creative arts academy. Our top-tier industry-relevant training includes cinematography, acting, stage management, live production, performance, screenwriting, directing, producing, and more. We are adaptive, innovative, and flexible, with courses designed to take full advantage of new media technology's rapid and ongoing advancements. So whatever your dream – to manage, perform, produce, direct, sing, dance, or design – the Academy of Film, Theatre & Television promises to deliver you into the heart of the industry, highly trained, experienced, and ready to impress. For over 20 years, ACTT and IFSS have helped launch countless careers in film, television, and theatre, both in Australia and internationally. Their alliance, and the birth of the Academy of Film, Theatre & Television (AFTT) in 2016, builds on this prestige and takes it to the next level – creating a dynamic, skills-based learning environment that offers a full spectrum of creative arts disciplines. AFTT is a broad-focused, dynamic, world-class learning environment. Our vision is long-reaching – to produce industry-ready graduates with a real-world understanding of their craft for whom employability in the industry is a realistic and attainable goal. To do that, we need to be ahead of the curve, an adaptive, innovative, and flexible learning environment with a cross-disciplinary ability to respond and think outside the square. To succeed, graduates need practical hands-on training and one-on-one mentorship from industry professionals. Our intense and wholly immersive environment is designed to ensure AFTT excels in production-focused, professional teaching, and training in all disciplines within our multifaceted industry. Thanks to the Academy's industry conditions and the latest knowledge of our tutors, our graduates emerge with an inherent understanding of the global film, theatre, and T.V. economy and leave primed to succeed on the world stage. The AFTT community is made up of creatively focused, like-minded individuals, drawn from current and past students, tutors, directors, consultants, and a supportive and dedicated student recruitment and administration team. Our extended friends and esteemed partners from the creative industry at large include the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), University of New England (UNE), Belvoir Street Theatre, L.A. film festival, Cannes Film Festival, Director Guild, and the Cinematographers Guild to name a few. Our industry networks are healthy and growing, and our high-value graduate productions are routinely well attended by luminaries in the business. At AFTT, we believe in success. We believe in thinking outside the square, pushing the limits, and daring to imagine. With a highly supportive and nurturing approach, we believe in helping our students aspire to greatness, giving them the best possible foundation to become an integral part of the global film and T.V. industry. View full university

The Applied Industry Research (AIR) unit of the Australian Film Television and Radio School develops applied research projects that explore technology for communication and art, the outcomes of which inform industry and impact the broader economy. By drawing on the connectedness between the arts, technology, innovation, and business, these projects engage audiences with a future-focused approach to entertainment, thus transforming ideas into commercial realities. Our new five-year vision is built on outreach, talent development, and industry training - all underpinned by research and inclusion. The new vision will strengthen the School as the leading center for innovation for the screen, sound, and story-making globally and has been informed by the most comprehensive and current national industry skills survey ever undertaken. Our purpose is clear - to find and empower Australian talent to shape and share their stories with the world by delivering the most future-focused education, research, and training. Outreach will help the School connect with a broad audience across Australia. This will be achieved through several channels, such as developing materials for teachers in classrooms to teach filmmaking skills within the context of Australian screen and broadcast culture and working with arts and cultural community-based organizations around the country to provide training. Partnerships will be a critical tool to help the School reach a broader and more diverse audience and ensure the success of new and inclusive initiatives around Australia. We will offer the highest standard of industry-focused education and training in order to develop new talent. Our merit-selection processes will be adapted to ensure the most creative students from the most diverse range of backgrounds study at AFTRS. Once here, students will be supported through the education pathway and mentored into the industry through formal programs that work for both students and providers. This includes reintroducing our high-level professional focused two year MA that will fast track into the industry. The MA Screen program will recruit six exceptional students a year into eleven discipline-specific cohorts. Our current BA will continue to evolve to ensure graduates are taught to leverage the latest technology and techniques, becoming creative entrepreneurs able to generate and engage audiences through all platforms and content genres. We are also looking to work with partners to support emerging talent through talent labs and mentoring schemes. Our 2016 Industry Skills Survey has provided a wealth of information about the Australian screen and broadcast industry's training needs and identified training and development gaps that AFTRS will look to fill. Short courses and diplomas, both online and face-to-face, were identified as the industry's most suitable training methods. The survey found that there are skills gaps in the following areas: business skills and entrepreneurship, new technologies, practical training in the creativity and craft of storytelling, and multi-skilled new entrants, and also found that marketing and social media will be critical to realizing future opportunities. We will drive innovation in the screen and broadcast industry and practice-based education. Our industry research will focus on new technologies, business, and audience engagement, such as the recent VR Noir project, which demonstrated how virtual reality narratives could engage audiences in a radically different way to traditional film and television. To ensure we reflect Australian society, diversity will be supported across all the School's activities. We have embarked on new research to uncover the best practice in diversity initiatives worldwide and apply the findings of this research in our activities and measure their impact against our strategic goals. Our new Indigenous Unit will be further supported and expanded to nurture potential filmmakers and broadcasters through various pathways into the School. Our Scholarship program will also be expanded to allow as many individuals as possible to access the education, training, and employment opportunities the School has to offer. The School's responsibility is to the Australian story. We need to open the school doors wide, increase our reach, and nurture and excite the next generation of talent that will ultimately impact the screen and broadcast industry – both culturally and commercially – here and around the world. VIDEOS View full university

Forty-five years of history. World-class facilities. Tutors who are shaping the industry – and have the accolades to prove it. Scholarships that make sure raw talent reaches potential. Working sets on site. Award-winning projects for real industry clients. Once-in-a-lifetime masterclasses with world-famous names. A network that will catapult your career. The chance to create the future. The National Film and Television School gives you access to everyone and everything you need to make it in the industry. NFTS Courses are based on learning and applying the crafts and skills of the medium. Students are encouraged to develop a solid understanding of how their specialist role fits into the overall process of project development, production, and program making. Practical learning is carefully integrated with seminars and other activities that place film, television, and games in a historical, cultural, and business context. Courses are led by professionals with extensive and current industry experience, teaching to industry standards. The core staff is supplemented by visiting tutors, leading practitioners in their field, who conduct special workshops and exercises. The NFTS offers courses in all the primary skills in film and television and new media to foster creative collaboration in a shared activity, thus emphasizing the crucial role that each specialist plays in the whole. Students are encouraged to extend the boundaries of creative expression in their specialization and experiment with new forms and styles related to their work content. The School supports the development of individual approaches to the work, allowing flexibility and freedom of choice within the curriculum's parameters. Workshops, exercises, and productions provide a framework for self-expression and a context for evaluating successful growth and talent maturing. Practical workshops will, wherever relevant, contain screenings and seminars that relate the skills to be learned to their application in films, programs, published game titles, and other media outputs. Course elements are designed to ensure that students confront the demands of genres, formats, and styles that are current practice in the industry. At the same time, regular screenings and discussions are arranged to instill an understanding of the media's history and development. This is designed to embrace references to the use of media across all the primary cultures and traditions. The School endeavors to keep its students up-to-date with new approaches both in technology and aesthetics with particular attention to modes of production and the refinement of the language of moving image media. A significant part of this is achieved by giving access to practitioners who visit the School or arranging sessions at facilities elsewhere in London or further afield. Attendance at significant festivals and symposia is built into course timetables. Thus an ongoing debate is encouraged to allow students to progress their learning under the stimulus of contact with change and development in the industry they are preparing to enter. Engagement with others is an essential part of every course. Students are developing their skills to be part of an essentially collaborative process - that of program making. Therefore, the curriculum for each specialization is designed to link with others on several occasions throughout the course, most significantly during productions. Here students have an opportunity to put into practice their increasing creative, interpretative, and technical skills within the realistic constraints of production. In 1970, Colin Young, a Scot then chairing the University of California's Department of Theater Arts, co-founded the NFTS and was appointed as the School's first director. With a loan from Rank, the NFS bought the old Beaconsfield Film Studios in Buckinghamshire - which had been home to organizations as diverse as British Lion Film Corporation, The Crown Film Unit, and the North Thames Gas Board - and set about refitting it to professional industry standards. Young established four permanent departments - production, camera, editing, and sound - and in 1971, the first intake of 25 students passed through the studio gates. Directors Mike Radford (The Merchant of Venice, Il Postino), Bill Forsyth (Local Hero) and Ben Lewin (Ally McBeal), pioneering documentarist Nick Broomfield (Aileen: Portrait of a Serial Killer), and visual effects specialist Dennis Lowe (Cold Mountain, The English Patient) were among their number. View full university