American Film Institute Conservatory
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The AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles is globally renowned as a premier graduate film school that offers an intensely focused, hands-on environment for aspiring visual storytellers. Students, designated as Fellows, specialize in one of six Master of Fine Arts disciplines: Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Producing, Production Design, or Screenwriting. The campus culture is fast-paced and deeply collaborative, requiring Fellows to actively crew and produce multiple narrative short films in a high-pressure, studio-like atmosphere. Setting the conservatory apart is its exclusively project-based curriculum that eschews traditional academic coursework in favor of practical filmmaking, supported by a legendary alumni network that includes David Lynch, Patty Jenkins, and Darren Aronofsky.
Wikipedia:The AFI Conservatory is a private non-profit graduate film school in the Hollywood Hills district of Los Angeles. Students learn from the masters in a collaborative, hands-on production environment with an emphasis on storytelling. The Conservatory is a program of the American Film Institute founded in 1969.
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