Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema
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Reality Checks: How Film Schools are Adapting to Entertainment Industry Changes
Scan the entertainment business press and everywhere you’ll see the phrase “the great contraction.” The aftermath of COVID shutdowns, labor strikes, the wind-down of zero-interest-rate policies, the end of peak TV, changes in the competitive streaming landscape, the rise of TikTok—all have conspired to make the ever-perilous path toward a career in feature film and television even more uncertain. The economic laws of supply and demand, as they pertain to the labor market, would indicate, then, that film schools must be feeling an enrollment pinch, but talking to various graduate and undergraduate chairs and professors from across the country, that’s […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 27, 2024 -
Spirit of a Startup: Brooklyn’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema
The value of a film school, like any institution, lies not in the sum of its parts but in the people who walk its corridors and inhabit its classrooms and offices. And the people who walk the 68,000 square feet of the new Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn — its students, faculty and administration — are animated by the effervescent spirit of a startup. Yet the parts that make up the school are without a doubt impressive, too. Purpose-built on two floors of a renovated building in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, the school boasts state-of-the-art lecture and editing rooms, DaVinci […]
by Barbara Bruni on Jun 16, 2017
