Filmmaking / Animation / Documentary Film / Acting for Film
Prague Film School is ranked among the world's leading film schools. The school's accelerated and hands-on programs, its location in Prague, its international and pedigreed faculty, and its committed and global student body have all contributed to this recognition.
The school's mandate with the Czech Ministry of Education is to provide professional-level for crew and post production professionals and informed auteurs. The following are the full-time programs offered:
• Filmmaking:
Core studies and specialization in screenwriting, directing, cinematography and post-production. Elective areas: directing actors, color theory, film history, photography for cinematography, animation fx, dramaturgy, documentary and other.
• Animation:
Core areas: animation techniques, character animation, post-production. After Effects, Maya, ZBrush and Vue.
• Documentary Film:
Conceptualization, visualization, preproduction, dramaturgy, interviewing techniques, shooting strategies, lighting, sound, camera operation and aesthetics, documentary history, theory and traditions, human rights documentary and alternative genres and more.
• Acting for Film:
Acting for film traditions, voice and physical training, improvisation, Meisner technique and image based acting, monologue training, film craft, portfolio building and professional and student film production work.
Covering a curriculum in one year which might otherwise take twice as long or more to complete, Prague Film School programs are decidedly fast-track.
Students studying at Prague Film School enjoy a fast-paced hands-on program in an intimate environment and, not un-importantly, in one of the world’s most beautiful capitals, Prague. The city is renowned for its beauty and vitality, its charm and pulse. Prague Film School, located in the heart of the city, embodies and contributes to this buzz.
The school's mandate with the Czech Ministry of Education is to provide professional-level for crew and post production professionals and informed auteurs. The following are the full-time programs offered:
• Filmmaking:
Core studies and specialization in screenwriting, directing, cinematography and post-production. Elective areas: directing actors, color theory, film history, photography for cinematography, animation fx, dramaturgy, documentary and other.
• Animation:
Core areas: animation techniques, character animation, post-production. After Effects, Maya, ZBrush and Vue.
• Documentary Film:
Conceptualization, visualization, preproduction, dramaturgy, interviewing techniques, shooting strategies, lighting, sound, camera operation and aesthetics, documentary history, theory and traditions, human rights documentary and alternative genres and more.
• Acting for Film:
Acting for film traditions, voice and physical training, improvisation, Meisner technique and image based acting, monologue training, film craft, portfolio building and professional and student film production work.
Covering a curriculum in one year which might otherwise take twice as long or more to complete, Prague Film School programs are decidedly fast-track.
Students studying at Prague Film School enjoy a fast-paced hands-on program in an intimate environment and, not un-importantly, in one of the world’s most beautiful capitals, Prague. The city is renowned for its beauty and vitality, its charm and pulse. Prague Film School, located in the heart of the city, embodies and contributes to this buzz.
Based in Prague, the ethos of the school is a mix of European art house and American independent cinemas. Faculty are indeed recruited from both sides of the Atlantic and consist of top international and Czech professionals who daily mentor the creative, artistic and professional development of the students.
Prague Film School's overriding philosophy is to integrate theory and practice so students acquire the intellectual and technical skills to make quality films. The school is highly hands-on and endeavors to foster artistic creativity while teaching industry craft skills.
Different than many national film academies or major private film schools abroad or in Europe, Prague Film School is characterized by its small size, accepting a maximum of 50 students in its year and semester programs and 20-25 in its summer film-making programs. This lends a particular intimacy to the educational and filmmaking experience, promoting close work relations with teachers and students and affording easy access to film-making facilities and a red-tape-free working environment.
Submit your application now: the next application deadline for the academic year programs (September 2008 - May 2009) is
June 2, 2008.
Prague Film School's overriding philosophy is to integrate theory and practice so students acquire the intellectual and technical skills to make quality films. The school is highly hands-on and endeavors to foster artistic creativity while teaching industry craft skills.
Different than many national film academies or major private film schools abroad or in Europe, Prague Film School is characterized by its small size, accepting a maximum of 50 students in its year and semester programs and 20-25 in its summer film-making programs. This lends a particular intimacy to the educational and filmmaking experience, promoting close work relations with teachers and students and affording easy access to film-making facilities and a red-tape-free working environment.
Submit your application now: the next application deadline for the academic year programs (September 2008 - May 2009) is
June 2, 2008.
