La Film School

Sure, with luck and determination -not to mention a formidable list of business contacts, anyone can engage in a fruitful career in filmmaking without stepping inside a film school campus. But unfortunately, that isn’t for everyone.

You love movies. As far as you’re concerned, you’ve always loved them. So when it comes to making your choice of careers, filmmaking comes naturally. What doesn’t come naturally, however, is where you want to learn the art of filmmaking.

Many of those who are considering going to film editing school are overwhelmed by the commitment involved. (Two to four years? Thousands of dollars?) While others choose to ignore or never bother to acknowledge to themselves what is involved only to realize later exactly what it is they have gotten themselves into.

Ever since starting in 1973 as a move of the Commonwealth government with a purpose of promoting Australia’s cultural activity, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (abbrev. as AFTRS) has transformed into the most advanced higher learning center for film, radio, television and digital media in Oceania.

The Australian film industry has a long history, starting with the 1906 Australian production, The Story of the Kelly Gang, which was the earliest known feature-length narrative film in the world. Since then, Australian film has traveled a road riddled with highly successful gluts of films as well as its share of deep troughs of a few handfuls of films produced within a decade.