Below is a listing of film schools throughout the United States with a special section focusing on California-based schools as well as international film schools.
USA
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Adventure Film School (Boulder, CO)
Alpha Pacific Institute (Phoenix, Arizona)
American Feature Film Academy (Los Angeles, California)
American University School of Communication (Washington, D.C.)
American Intercontinental University-Buckhead (Atlanta, Georgia)
American Intercontinental University – South Florida (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Arizona State University School of Theatre and Film (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design Film Program (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)
Blue Ridge Motion Pictures Film Institute (Asheville, North Carolina)
Boston University Department of Film and Television (Boston, Massachusetts)
Brooklyn College Department of Film (Brooklyn, NY)
Burlington College, Department of Cinema Studies and Film Production (Burlington, VT)
Carolina Film Institute (Greenville, SC)
The Film Production Program at Cerritos College (Norwalk, CA)
Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts)
Cleveland State University Film and Digital Media Program (Cleveland, Ohio)
College of Santa Fe Moving Image Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
Collins College (Tempe, AZ)
Colorado Film School (Denver, Colorado)
Columbia University Film Division (New York, NY)
Columbia College Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
DePaul University Center for Cinema and Interactive Arts (Chicago, Illinois)
DeSales University (Center Valley, Pennsylvania)
The Documentary Center, The George Washington University (Washington D.C.)
The Documentary Institute, The University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)
Dream Productions & Media Entertainment (Humble, Texas and Los Angeles, California)
Drexel University – Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design (Philadelphia, PA)
Emerson College: Department of Visual & Media Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
Fairfield University New Media Film, Television and Radio Program (Fairfield, CT)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Visual and Performing Arts Department (Teaneck, NJ)
Filmtech (Philadelphia, PA)
Fitchburg State College Communications Media Department (Fitchburg, MA)
Flashpoint Academy of Media Arts & Sciences (Chicago, IL)
Florida State University Film School (Tallahassee, FL)
Full Sail University (Winter Park, FL)
Grand Valley State University Film & Video Production (Allendale, MI)
iD Visual Arts Academy (Palo Alto, California and Poughkeepsie, New York)
Indiana University/Department of Communication and Culture (Bloomington,IN)
The Independent Film School (New York, NY)
Industry Film Schools (Shrewsbury, NJ)
The International Film Institute of New York (New York, NY)
Ithaca Film School (Ithaca, NY)
The Jason Bennett Actor’s Workshop (New York, NY)
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska)
KD College Conservatory of Film and Dramatic Arts (Dallas, Texas)
Las Vegas School Of Film (Las Vegas, NV)
Lawrence University Department of Theatre Arts (Appleton, WI)
Lights Film School (New York, NY)
Madison Media Institute (Madison, Wisconsin)
Maine Media Workshops and College (Rockport, Maine)
Milwaukee Area Technical College- Television and Video Production Division (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Filmmaking Program (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Minneapolis Community and Technical College – Cinema Division (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Monroe Community College – Cinema and Screen Studies (Rochester, New York)
Montana State University – Department of Media and Theatre Arts (Bozeman, Montana)
Motion Picture Institute of Michigan (Troy, Michigan)
mediakite Training Center (New York, NY)
Mediatech Institute (Dallas/Austin/Houston, Texas)
MediaTech Institute (San Diego, CA)
Miami Dade Community College School of Entertainment and Design Technology (Miami, FL)
Middlebury College Film-Video Program (Middlebury, VT)
Minnesota State University-Moorhead (Moorhead, MN)
Musician’s Institute Program of Film (Hollywood, CA)
The Nashville Film Institute (Nashville, TN)
The New School – Documentary Studies (New York, NY)
New York Film Academy Film School (New York, NY)
New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts (New York, NY)
New York Video School (New York, NY)
NJ Film School (Martinsville, NJ)
NYU – Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Film and Television (New York, NY)
North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
Ohio University School of Film (Athens, OH)
Palm Beach Community College Motion Picture and Television Production Program (Palm Beach, Florida)
Palm Beach Film School (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Piedmont Community College Film School (Yanceyville, North Carolina)
Pittsburgh Filmmakers (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Point Park University, Cinema and Digital Arts (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Prince of Prestige Academy of Film (Maitland, Florida)
Regent University School of Communication & the Arts (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
R. K. Films & Media Academy (New Delhi, India)
Rochester Institute of Technology School of Film and Animation (Rochester, New York)
Saint Augustine’s College Theatre and Film Program (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Santa Fe Community College Film Program (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, Georgia)
Scottsdale Community College Film Program (Scottsdale, Arizona)
Seattle Film Institute (Seattle, Washington)
Shepherd Film Academy (Memphis, Tennessee)
SMU | Meadows School of the Arts- Division of Cinema Television (Dallas, Texas)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Cinema and Photography (Carbondale, Illinois)
State University of New York, Purchase College Film B.A. Film Program (Purchase, New York)
State University of New York Binghamton, Cinema Department (Binghamton, New York)
Syracuse University, Newhouse School of Public Communications (Syracuse, NY)
Temple University, Department of Film and Media Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Theatre of Arts (Hollywood, California, USA)
Trident Technical College Program of Film, Media and Visual Arts (Charleston, SC)
University of Advancing Technology, Digital Video Department (Tempe, AZ)
University of Alabama, Telecommunication and Film Department (Tuscaloosa, AL)
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
University of Central Arkansas (Conway, AR)
University of Central Florida, Film Program (Orlando, FL)
The University of Illinois – Chicago, Department of Electronic Media, Film, Photography (Chicago, Illinois)
University of Iowa Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature (Iowa City, IA)
University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Film (Lawrence, KS)
University of Memphis Film and Video Production Program (Memphis, Tennessee)
University of Miami, School of Communication, Motion Pictures Program (Miami, FL)
University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts and Cultures (Ann Arbor, MI)
University of North Alabama (Florence, Alabama)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Broadcasting and Cinema Department (Greensboro, North Carolina)
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Wilmington, North Carolina)
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
University of Oklahoma, Film and Video Studies (Norman, Oklahoma)
University Of Pittsburgh Film Studies Department (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio – Television – Film (Austin, TX)
University of Utah Film Division (Salt Lake City, UT)
University of Washington, Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies (Seattle, Washington)
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts (Milwaukee, WI)
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Department of Radio-Television-Film (Oshkosh, WI)
Utah Valley University – Digital Media Program (Orem, UT)
Valencia Community College Arts and Entertainment Program (Orlando, FL)
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Cinema Program (Richmond, VA)
Wake Forest University Documentary Film Program (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
Watkins College of Art&Design Film School (Nashville, TN)
Western Carolina University Motion Picture & Television Production Program (Cullowhee, North Carolina)
Worcester State College Communications Department in Film/Media (Worcester, MA)
Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking (Sedona, Arizona)
California
Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA)
American Intercontinental University – Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
Berkeley Digital Film Institute (Berkeley, California)
Brooks Institute (Santa Barbara, CA)
CalArts School of Film and Video (Valencia, CA)
California State University, Dominguez Hills Digital Media Arts Program (Carson, California)
California State University, Fullerton Department of Radio-TV-Film Department (Fullerton, CA)
California State University, Long Beach Film & Electronic Arts (Long Beach, CA)
California State University, Los Angeles Television/Film/and Media Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
California State University, Monterey Bay Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department (Monterey Bay, CA)
California State University Northridge Department of Cinema and Television Arts (Northridge, California)
Cinema Arts Tech (Los Angeles, CA)
Chapman University School of Film and Television (Orange, CA)
Columbia College Hollywood (Tarzana, CA)
Film Arts Foundation (San Francisco, CA)
Film Connection (Los Angeles, CA)
Hero Film School (Hollywood, CA)
The Hollywood Film and Acting Academy (Hollywood, CA)
Hollywood for Kids (Hollywood, CA)
Los Angeles City College Department of Cinema and Television (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Feature Film Academy (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Film School (Hollywood, CA)
Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (Los Angeles, CA)
Mount St. Mary’s College Film & Social Justice Program (Los Angeles, CA)
Musician’s Institute Program of Film (Hollywood, CA)
National University-School of Media and Communication (Los Angeles, CA)
New York Film Academy, Universal Studios (Hollywood, CA)
Orange Coast College Department of Film (Costa Mesa, CA)
Orange County High School of the Arts (Santa Ana, CA)
San Diego State University School of Communication (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking (San Francisco, CA)
San Francisco State University Cinema Department (San Francisco, CA)
San Jose State University Department of Television, Radio, Film, and Theatre (San Jose, CA)
Stanford University Graduate Program in Documentary Film & Video (Stanford, CA)
Steinlein Productions (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Los Angeles Professional Programs in Screenwriting and Producing (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Los Angeles School of Film, Theater, and Television (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Los Angeles Extension’s Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts Department (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California, Riverside’s Media and Cultural Studies Program (Riverside, CA)
University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts (San Diego, CA)
University of California, Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media Program (Santa Cruz,California)
University of Southern California School of Cinema Television (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Southern California School Summer Film School (Los Angeles, CA)
Video Symphony (Burbank, CA)
Vidiots Annex (Santa Monica, CA)
International
Academia Internacional de Cinema (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Academy of Arts, The Department of Drama (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova)
Act Capetown International (Cape Town, South Africa)
afilm International Film Workshops (Sitges, Barcelona, Spain)
The Alchemy (Pune, Maharastra, India)
Anna Fiorentini Theatre and Film School (London, UK)
APA International Film Schools (Sydney, Australia)
Ariege Arts DV Filmmaking (Ariege-Pyrenees, France)
Arts University College at Bournemouth (Bournemouth, United Kingdom)
Asia Pacific Film Institute (Manila, Philippines)
Asian Academy Of Film & Television (Noida, India)
Australian Film, Television & Radio School (various locations, Australia)
Baltic Film and Media School (Tallinn, Estonia)
Bond University Centre for Film, Television & Screen-Based Media (Gold Coast, Australia)
Cape Peninsula University of Technology Film School (Western Cape, South Africa)
Central Film School London (London, England)
Centre for Arts and Technology (Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada)
Centro (Mexico City, Mexico)
CICE – Escuela Profesional de Nuevas Technologias (Madrid, Spain)
CityVarsity School of Media & Creative Arts (Cape Town, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Columbia Academy – Video and Film Production (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Conservatoire Libre du Cin�ma Fran�ais CLCF (Paris, France)
CRAFT: Center For Research in Art of Film and Television (Delhi, India)
CRAFT (Costa Rica Art, Film & Television) Media Course (Tamarindo, Costa Rica)
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Digital Film Academy (Istanbul, Turkey)
Digital Academy: The Film School (Mumbai, India)
Digital Film Academy of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Digital Film School (Dublin, Ireland)
Digital Film School (Mumbai, India)
Digital Studio College (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Dramatiska institutet University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre (Stockholm, Sweden)
Ecole des Arts Visuels de Marrakech (Marrakesh, Morocco)
Ecole Superieure Libre d’Etudes Cinematographiques (Paris, France)
Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design and Media (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
EICAR – The International Film School Of Paris (Paris, France)
Elstree Film School (Borehamwood, England)
ESCAC (Barcelona, Spain)
e Scape Movieworks Inc. (Vancouver, Canada)
Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon, Portugal)
Escuela Superior de Artes y Espectáculos TAI (Madrid, Spain)
Escuela de Cine y Television Septima Ars (Madrid, Spain)
Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisi�n (San Antonio de los Baios, Cuba)
Escuela de Cinematograf�a y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM) (Madrid, Spain)
Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional (ESDIP) (Madrid, Spain)
ESEC (Paris, France)
Etobicoke School of the Arts (Toronto, Ontario,Canada)
European Film Actor School (EFAS) (Zurich, Switzerland)
The European Film College (Ebeltoft, Denmark)
Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)
FAMO – Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek (Pisek, Czech Republic)
Femis (Ecole nationale superieure des metiers de l’image et du son) (Paris, France)
Filmakademie Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)
Film Akademie (Baden-Wïrttemberg, Germany)
The Film School (Wellington, New Zealand)
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune (Pune, Maharashtra, India)
Film and Television Institute of Tamilnadu (Chennai, India)
Film and Television School Of The Academy Of Performing Arts In Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
Film School Zlin (Zlin, Czech Republic)
The Film Workshops Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico)
Filmakademie Baden-W�rttemberg (Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Filmosofia (Granada, Spain)
Flash Frame Visuals Academy of Film & Television (Bangalore, India)
Florence International Film School (Florence, Italy)
Global Media Adventures Documentary Films Program (Samara, Costa Rica)
Griffith University Film School (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
Hamburg Media School (Hamburg, Germany)
Higher Institute of Cinema (Cairo,Egypt)
Hochschule Film und Fernsehen (HFF) Konrad Wolf (Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany)
Hochschule Film und Fernsehen Munich (Munich, Germany)
Humber College – Film & Television Production (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Imaginox Online Film Lab (London, England)
Institut National Superieure des Arts du Spectacle (Brussels, Belgium)
Instituto Ruso Mexicano De Serguei Eisenstein (Mexico City, Mexico)
Instituto Superior Tecnologico de Cine y Actuación (Quito, Ecuador)
The International Film School Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
International Academy of Film and Television (Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines)
International Film College (Gold Coast, Australia)
International Film School Wales (Newport, Wales, UK)
Italian National School of Cinema (Rome, Italy)
The Icelandic Film School (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Kinema Escuela de Cine (Bilbao, Spain)
Kvikmyndaskoli Islands / Icelandic Film School (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Krakowska Szkola Teatralna i Filmowa (Kraków, Poland)
Langara College Digital Film Production Program (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Langara College Film Arts Program for Actors, Writers and Directors (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Lillehammer University College Film School (Lillehammer, Norway)
London Film Academy (London, UK)
London Film School (London, UK)
London School of Film, Media and Performance (London, UK)
MadArts – Jaspal Bhatti Film School (Mohali, India)
Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts (Jerusalem, Israel)
Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center (San Juan, Philippines)
Masterclass Ludwigsburg/Paris (Ludwigsburg, Germany and Paris, France)
Maurits Binger Filminstituut (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
The Met Film School UK (London, UK)
Metropolis: Escuela de Cine y Arte Dramatico (Madrid, Spain)
Mimar Sinan University – Turkish Film and TV Institute (Istanbul, Turkey)
MoFORCE Training For Television and Film (Nairobi, Kenya)
Narafi Film School (Brussels, Belgium)
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria)
National College of Arts (Lahore, Pakistan)
National Film and Television School (Beaconsfield, UK)
National Film School of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
National Film School of Florence, Italy (Florence, Italy)
Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Neptune Institute of Film and Television (Delhi, India)
New Media Technology College (Dublin, Ireland)
New Renaissance Florence (Florence, Italy)
New Zealand Film Academy (Auckland, New Zealand)
Noroff Instituttet (Oslo, Norway)
Northern Film School, Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds, UK)
Norges Kreative Fagskole, Department of Film (Oslo, Norway)
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia (Singapore)
Pacific Audio Visual Institute (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Pacific Film & New Media Academy (Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada)
Participate Film Academy (Sydney, Australia)
Prague Film School (Prague, Czech Republic)
Queen’s University Department of Film Studies (Kingston, Canada)
Queensland School of Film and Television (Queensland, Australia)
Red Deer College Department of Motion Picture Arts (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada)
The Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts (Aqaba, Jordan)
Reel Edge Film Academy (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The All-Russian State University of Cinematography (Moscow, Russia)
Ryerson Polytechnic – Image Arts, Film, Photography, New Media (Toronto, Canada)
SAE Institute, Byron Bay – World Headquarters (Byron Bay, Australia)
SAE Institute Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
SAE Institute London (London, UK)
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School (Jerusalem, Israel)
Sarajevo Film Academy (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
School of Media Arts and Imaging, Time Based Art and Digital Film (Dundee, Scotland, UK)
School of Media Technology (Singapore)
Screen Academy Scotland at Napier University (Dundee, Scotland, UK)
Scuola di Cinema Pigrecoemme (Naples, Italy)
Screenwise (Surry Hills, Australia)
Septima Ars School of Cinema and TV (Madrid, Spain)
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) (Karachi Pakistan)
Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, School of Animation,Arts & Design (Oakville, Ontario, Canada)
The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa)
Staffordshire University Department of Media and Entertainment Technology (Staffordshire, UK)
Stavrakos Academy (Athens, Greece)
The South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance (Johannesburg and Capetown, South Africa)
Southseas Film School (Auckland, New Zealand)
South Thames College Film School (London, UK)
Straight Curve Film School (Beckenham, UK)
Summer School in Filmmaking at Melbourne University (Melbourne, Australia)
Swinburne School of Film and Television (Prahran, Melbourne, Australia)
Sydney Film School (Sydney, Australia)
Toronto Film College (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Toronto Film School (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
UK National Film & Television School (Beaconsfield, UK)
Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts (Auckland, New Zealand)
Universidad de la Sabana (Bogota, Colombia)
Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Universidad Manuela Beltran (Bogot�, Colombia)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia)
Universidade Lusofona (Lisbon, Portugal)
Universitatea Hyperion (Bucharest, Romania)
Universitatea Media (Bucharest, Romania)
Universitatea Nationala De Arta Teatrala Si Cinematografica (Bucharest, Romania)
University College Dublin Centre for Film Studies (Dublin, Ireland)
University of Applied Sciences: Audiovisual Media/Cinematography (Berlin, Germany)
University of Applied Sciences: Mainz, Time Based Media (Mainz, Germany)
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Department of Film and Television (Helsinki, Finland)
University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies, Entertainment Administration (Vancouver, Canada)
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication (London, UK)
University of Hyderabad Department of Communication (Hyderabad, India)
University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) (Quezon City, Philippines)
University of Westminster Film School, Harrow Campus (London, UK)
University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Vancouver Film School (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Victoria IndieCine Ltd. (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia)
Warsaw Film School (Warsaw, Poland)
WA Screen Academy (Perth, Western Australia)
Westbridge Film School (Mexico City, Mexico)
Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, Television, Animation & Media Arts (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
York University, Department of Film (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)