No Filmmaking at Film School: Administrative Policies Make Production Impossible
No Filmmaking at Film School: Administrative Policies Make Production Impossible
Hunter / Staff Illustrator
December 14, 2020, 2:51 AM
Columbia School of the Arts promotes its film master’s degree program with a skillfully produced trailer that offers a seductive sales pitch to prospective applicants. The school boasts that students’ films play at “every major film festival you can think of: Telluride, Berlin, South by Southwest and Tribeca, Cannes.” Deans and professors tout the program’s focus on practical training and portfolio development set students up for industry success: The school proudly announces that students are “making things from the first day they come here and they’re making things as they walk out the door.”