Student Academy Awards

FSU Film School has won a total of 8 "Student Oscars" from the Academy of Motion Picture and placed as a regional finalist 12 times (4 times in the year 2003 alone). Four student titles have gone on to win top awards in festivals that qualified them for entry into the non-student Oscars.

Academy of Television Collegiate Awards

The FSU Film School has won a total of 24 collegiate Emmys from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2003 The Film School was the first school in the history of the Academy to place First, Second, and Third in the comedy category. In 2004 The Film School set another Academy record by being the first school to win 5 student Emmys in one year (two First place, two Second place, and one Third place)

Refreshing Filmmakers

FSU Film School students have qualified more films for the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker awards in the last 8 years than any other film school. FSU students won the award in 2000 and 2004.

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Overview

About the Film School

The Film School is located in FSU's University Center

The Film School provides a one-on-one setting for the majority of instruction. Its curriculum focuses on the art, craft, and business of storytelling. The faculty of filmmakers is a blend of senior industry members that include Victor Nunez, Richard Portman, Rexford Metz, and Chip Chalmers and young accomplished professionals such as Valerie Scoon, Reb Braddock, Tim Long, and Vicky Meyer all who have a record of excellent teaching in addition to their impressive industry credits. Faculty members work with students in a studio facility that consists of production offices, sound stages, screening theaters, digital production and post-production equipment, Super-16 and 35mm cameras, and grip and camera trucks.

FSU is the only film school in the country that pays for the production costs of all of its students’ films, thereby creating a level playing field for students to focus on art, craft and imagination, instead of fundraising. To ensure that this high caliber of education is available to the most talented student regardless of financial means, the university offers generous scholarships and assistantships, and tuition costs that are among the lowest in the country.

Distinguished Alumni

Alumni are unusually involved with the school and actively work to transition graduates into the industry. They assign mentors to every graduate, and then coordinate with faculty and staff to create career plans for students before they leave the program. This provides virtually 100% of the school’s graduates with meaningful work in the film and television industry within 12 months of graduation.

The Film School alumni include screenwriters Ron Friedman (Chicken Little and Open Season) and Melissa Carter Newman (Little Black Book and Life As We Know It), executives Jonathan King, Executive Vice President of Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth and Good Night and Good Luck) and Amy Dean, Senior Director of Development at Oxygen Network, and directors Greg Marcks (11:14) and Frank Longo (National Lampoon’s Repli-Kate). In addition to their industry work these alumni currently serve as mentors to recent graduates of The Film School.

The Florida State Legislature created The College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts (a.k.a. the Film School) in 1989 with the expressed mission to prepare men and women for successful careers in the film and television industries. The school operates on the main campus of The Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida, offering programs in undergraduate and graduate film production.