| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-06 | - |
Program Overview
The second year program aims to refine and broaden filmmaking skills through master class sessions with some of the Industry’s top international professionals. The program trains students for the production of longer format projects and involves them in substantial full-time work on sets.
Program Outline
Details of the program
The first semester of the course is driven by workshops with visiting filmmakers, course work, consultations and film projects. Visiting filmmakers lead 3-day to 4-week practical labs covering directing the drama, working with actors, art direction, visualization, script analysis, managing the production process, casting, rehearsals and more. The semester also incorporates preproduction and preparation for the films which will be shot and edited second semester.
During the second semester students shoot 15 to 30 minute long films. Students are in production for 45 to 60 days. Following the production of the diploma film, students engage in post production, post production workshops and classes relating to the business of selling and promoting films.
Elements of the second semester include: preproduction and consultations prep work for film, production of films, post production, and seminars on sales, festivals and distribution.
Prague Film School is open to applicants of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of merit and creative potential.
Production experience is not a requisite for getting admitted, but of course welcome. Students applying to Prague Film School come from a wide-spectrum of backgrounds, from the professional filmmaker to the initiate.
Applicant Categories at Prague Film School:
1) advanced filmmakers who may have already completed degree filmmaking programs back home and who have already made festival-level or professional film products;
2) theater actors, acting conservatory graduates without formal training or experience in acting for film;
3) intermediate applicants who have significant production experience as autodidacts or work in a film-related area but who have received little to no formal training.
4) applicants with a background in cinema theory, acting, media studies, journalism, humanities who have not yet had any production experience but who demonstrate a history of interest in film.
We welcome applications from motivated, independent and hardworking individuals. Students are in class 6-8 hours per day and are also busy with homework, shooting and writing scripts. During production periods, which constitute 20-30 days per semester, shooting may last up to 12-14 hours/daily. Studies are very intensive and demanding and require a high level of personal discipline.
