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Film School: A Ten Part Documentary SeriesSo you want to be a filmmaker, huh? Anyone with a hankering to be the next Martin Scorsese is advised to watch IFC's sublimely entertaining "Film School," a 10-part documentary series that artfully -- yet forcefully -- drives home the significant pitfalls of being a film student at the famed Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
It focuses on four of the 36 fortunate souls who are accepted yearly from more than 1,000 applicants, watching them as they endure spirit-sapping budget/fund-raisin g issues, casting, location and deadline problems and logistical challenges of every sort while struggling to put together a 10-minute thesis featurette. If you're good, you may go on to a brilliant career like fellow NYU alumni Scorsese, Spike Lee, Amy Heckerling and Oliver Stone. If you're not, you'll simply be out a bunch of money and on the street.
Creator/exec producer and NYU film school alumna Nanette Burstein (who co-produced and directed the Robert Evans biopic "The Kid Stays in the Picture") does a superb job of capturing the tension and pressure of the task at hand while skillfully interweaving the back stories of the four individuals being profiled. We also hear from the NYU profs, from such directors as Lee, Scorsese, Stone and Brett Ratner and, mostly, from the students as they work to conquer their insecurities and inexperi
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