----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Prof. Liz Weis has posted previously here about Brooklyn College, and I'm forever offering info about Hunter College. There's also City College and The College of Staten Island. One application lets you apply to up to six programs, and the tuition is still relatively reasonable (some of us remember when it was free). While I'm here, I'd like to announce The 1995 Hunter College Student Film Festival, May 11 - 13. Anyone interested in seeing what the students are up to should definitely check it out (it's *still* free). Last year we screened close to 40 student films-- about half of them works-in-progress shown on a Siemen's double-system projector-- had guest speakers from groups like AIVF and the Indepedent Feature Project, and held a retrospective of the work, both student and professional, of late Hunter Alumnus Bill Sherwood (dir. "Parting Glances," 1985). This year, the Film Society is asking some guest filmmakers to come. I believe documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner will screen some of his work (he's taught film classes in Hunter's Art Department) and the students are trying to coax Ed Burns, a recent Hunter grad who reaped an award at this year's Sundance Fest) to come give an inspirational talk. All this in the midst of very *severe* cut-backs to the CUNY system. NYC public film-school students are a tough breed and both the Film Fest and the films shown there are an amazing example of what can be produced on limited funds. If you'd like to be kept posted about the details, please e-mail me with your snail-mail address and I'll forward it to the computer-less Film Society. They'll be sending a mailing out soon. Melissa Tonelli [log in to unmask] ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'm looking at Film Schools. Knowing next to nothing, my understanding is that USC, UCLA & NYU are the "best" (arbitrary term I know) with Columbia up there somewhere. Now I know that's like saying only Ivy schools are good or something lame like that, but what other schools out there are exciting, high quality, "up and coming", etc. Again _all_ comments are appreciated.