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Kim - Did you receive my recent message? If so, could you post it? Jim Kelly Durgin

FAT JACK - Is it tough to get into the biz? Is it ever! Many estimates are that ninety-five percent of film school grads do not make a living in films. I have actually talked to over eight thousand hopefuls, all wanting to get into films and thirty to forty percent of them had degrees in film...

CWHIT - I do agree that shooting your films is a good practice but only after you learn how to shoot one. Self taught filmmakers, like self-taught attorneys, architects, dentists, etc. do lack professionalism. Anybody can make a movie today. I've met many Writer-Producer-Director types under...

Kate - Learning something about film at film school can be helpful in learning some of the basic requirements for motion pictures. Dramatic theatrical feature films and episodic television films are made in a vastly different manner than docs. Yes, both use the same if not quite similar...

FILM SCHOOL COSTS FILM SCHOOL COSTS Cinema Arts Tech has the best film school instructors in the country! Steven Spielberg's production managers, vice presidents of production from major studios, Directors Guild Committee Chairmen, producers and managers of many of Hollywood's biggest...

Jeremy - Unfortunately tens of thousands of aspiring hopefuls run into six figure dept and will never repay the school loans by working in the film industry. It is not so hard to pass the courses at most film schools but it is painfully easy to fail to get a job, any job, including production...