Film School Secrets: Insider Advice for Aspiring Filmmakers Learn Filmmaking as Creative Professional, Not a Starving Artist

Film School Secrets is expanding to tackle all of higher education through a new site called SkipCollege.TV. It’s also featuring random parody and funny videos like this one… a fake ad for a new phone than literally blows away the competition. This is hilarious, check it out!

Hollywood remakes are dragging the industry into new lows of uncreativity. Happily, this weeks remake of ‘Total Recall’ tanked at the box office. The movie had a $175 million budget, and opened with about $25 million. In movie terms, that is a major turd. Colin Farrell was also the big name of “Alexander”, another box office flop. But at least ...

My buddy Adam just rented about 30 Woody Allen movies. If you aren’t familiar with Woody then get familiar. I’m a huge fan, but any artist should be impressed with his body of work. The man has made a movie a year for that last 40 plus years. It’s insane. There’s a great doc about him that is now available ...

Many high schoolers dream of attending big name film schools because they imagine huge cranes, big cameras, and the bright lights of a real film set. The reality is starkly different. In fact in 2012, the equipment owned by many film schools is often comparable to a high school AV department. In the last 10 years the cost of high ...

I opened my email early this morning to find this incredible job opportunity from NYU Film School, off their Career ListServe: As you can see, these are two incredible chances to be either the assistant to the head of some alternative television department OR…  an assistant office manager! Simply fantastic. Who knows if you would ever get these kind of ...

A big reason why some people pay big money for film school is summed up in one word: networking. “It’s all about who you know” is the old adage in the film business. But is this really true? Not really. Since moving to LA, I’ve met a ton of what I would call “people once removed” from super powerful friends. ...

I received this great email from Kim W. of Florida, who homeschools her daughter. Thought I would share it with y’all. Hello Seth, I am the homeschooling mother of a 14-year old aspiring filmmaker.  Interestingly, I stumbled upon your website while researching film schools the week after we participated in a “Behind the Scenes Tour” of Full Sail University in ...