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36-491: The Center for Advanced Film Studies (later the AFI Conservatory) opened its doors at Greystone Mansion on September 23, 1969. Harold Lloyd screened his film The Freshman and spoke with AFI Fellows on the school's first day. The first class included Terrence Malick , Caleb Deschanel , and Paul Schrader . In 1973, filmmaker John Cassavetes was the first filmmaker-in-residence while editing A Woman Under

72-1186: A faculty of working professionals including Todd Cherniawsky (art director, Star Wars: The Last Jedi ), Stan Chervin (writer, Moneyball ), Destin Daniel Cretton , (director, Short Term 12 ), Matthew Friedman (editor, The Farewell ), Joe Garrity (production designer, Best in Show ), Susan Littenberg (editor Easy A ), Stephen Lighthill (recipient 2018 ASC President's Award), Elvis Mitchell (film critic), Michele Mulroney (writer, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ), Martin Nicholson (editor, The Alienist ), Lauren Polizzi (art director, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 & The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 ), Louis Provost (VP Production, Walt Disney Studios ), Patricia Riggen (director The 33 ), Russell Schwartz (marketing executive on films including Chappaquiddick ), Anna Thomas (co-writer El Norte ), Jennie Tugend, (producer, Free Willy ), Janet Yang (producer, The Joy Luck Club ). The Harold Lloyd Master Seminar series, named after

108-798: A major hub for discourse on cinema on the African continent. Destin Daniel Cretton Destin Yori Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the drama films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), Just Mercy (2019) as well as the Marvel Studios film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021). Cretton was born and raised in Haiku, Hawaii on

144-407: A medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies . Film studies is less concerned with advancing proficiency in film production than it is with exploring the narrative , artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of the cinema. In searching for these social-ideological values, film studies takes a series of critical approaches for

180-700: A minimum of three short films in their first year and a thesis film in their second year. Production Design - Attracting artists from architecture, interior design, theater design and other related fields, the Production Design curriculum focuses on the creative process of visually and physically developing cinematic environments. Screenwriting - Screenwriting Fellows conceive and write multiple projects in features, short films, long and short-form TV drama and comedy as well as webisodes and other Internet innovations. Fellows learn to collaborate with Directing and Producing classmates. The AFI Conservatory has

216-647: A one-year period. Hodge will write the series, and Coogler and Cretton will direct. Cretton subsequently teamed with Larson and Michael B. Jordan for Just Mercy , a drama film based on civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson 's New York Times bestselling memoir: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption . Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, where he provided defense counsel to men on death row. The plot follows Stevenson (Jordan) as he explores

252-430: A staff person at a group home for at-risk teenagers. He made short films as a hobby, which developed as a vocational path. He attended and graduated from film school at San Diego State University . While at San Diego State University, Cretton made a 22-minute short film, Short Term 12 , based on his experiences at the facility for teenagers. The short film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival , where it won

288-593: A television drama series produced by Charles D. King. Drawing from Cretton's experiences working in residential foster care, Hodge's background teaching under-served youth in San Francisco Bay area continuation schools and Coogler's upbringing in the East Bay, Minors promises to take an unflinching look at institutionalization, exploring juvenile facilities and the children who grow up in that system. The series will show how that system shapes young people over

324-433: A thorough understanding of the production process, script to screen. Editing - Editing Fellows master the skills needed to be editors, assistant editors and post-production producers while learning the technical, aesthetic and collaborative aspects of post-production with a primary focus on storytelling. Producing - Producing Fellows study all aspects of creative, entrepreneurial production while developing and producing

360-640: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ' five Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2010. The film premiered on March 10, 2013, at South by Southwest , where it won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards for a Narrative Feature. Widely acclaimed as one of the best films of 2013, it was listed on many film critics' annual top ten lists. The film earned several accolades, including three Independent Spirit Award nominations. In 2014, Cretton

396-797: The Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam also conduct scholarly projects alongside educational and outreach programs. Film festivals play an important role in the study of film and may include discourses on topics such as film style, aesthetics, representation, production, distribution, social impact, history, archival and curation. Major festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival offer extensive programs with talks and panel discussions. They also inform film historiography, most actively through retrospectives and historical sections such as Cannes Classics. Film festival FESPACO serves as

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432-582: The USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2006. Today, film studies are taught worldwide and has grown to encompass numerous methods for teaching history, culture and society. Many liberal arts colleges and universities, as well as American high schools, contain courses specifically focused on the analysis of film. Modern-day film studies increasingly reflect popular culture and art, and a wide variety of curricula have emerged for analysis of critical approaches used in film. Students are typically expected to form

468-568: The #1 film school in the United States. AFI Conservatory is a five-term Master of Fine Arts program in six disciplines: Cinematography - Encompasses training from pre-visualization to advanced image manipulation and control, Cinematography Fellows develop their storytelling skills using formats ranging from digital video to 16mm and 35mm film cameras. Directing - With a focus on narrative filmmaking, Directing Fellows learn diverse directing styles, techniques and strategies as they gain

504-420: The 20th century, decades after the invention of motion pictures . Rather than focusing on the technical aspects of film production, film studies are concentrated on film theory , which approaches film critically as an art, and the writing of film historiography . Because film became an invention and industry only in the late 19th century, a generation of film producers and directors existed significantly before

540-705: The Influence . In 1975, filmmaker Ján Kadár , director of the Oscar -winning film The Shop on Main Street , became the Conservatory's second filmmaker-in-residence. In 2013, Emmy and Oscar -winning director, producer and screenwriter James L. Brooks ( As Good as It Gets , Broadcast News , Terms of Endearment ) joined the AFI Conservatory as Artistic Director, where he provides leadership for

576-562: The Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. After graduating from film school, Cretton made his feature directorial debut with the 90 minute film, I Am Not a Hipster , which premiered at Sundance on January 20, 2012. The film was produced by Ron Najor, who would later go on to produce the feature adaptation of Short Term 12 alongside Maren Olson, Asher Goldstein, and Joshua Astrachan. Cretton's feature-length screenplay won one of

612-513: The United States offer a major program in film studies. This number continues to grow each year with new interest in film studies. Institutions offering film degrees as part of their arts or communications curricula differ from institutions with dedicated film programs. The success of the American film industry has contributed to the popularity of academic film studies in the U.S., and film-related degrees often enable graduates to pursue careers in

648-523: The ability to detect conceptual shifts in film, a vocabulary for the analysis of film form and style, a sense of ideological dimensions of film and an awareness of extra textual domains and possible direction of film in the future. Universities often allow students to participate in film research and attend seminars of specialized topics to enhance their critical abilities. The curriculum of tertiary-level film studies programs often include but are not limited to: A total of 144 tertiary institutions in

684-474: The abstract and practical approaches. The German Deutsche Filmakademie Babelsberg was founded during the era of the Third Reich in 1938. Its lecturers included Willi Forst and Heinrich George . Students were required to create films in order to complete their studies at the academy. A movement away from Hollywood productions in the 1950s turned cinema into a more artistic independent endeavor. It

720-475: The academic analysis that followed in later generations. Early film schools focused on the production and subjective critique of film rather than on the critical approaches, history and theory used to study academically. The concept of film studies arose as a means of analyzing the formal aspects of film as the films were created. Established in 1919, the Moscow Film School was the first school in

756-584: The analysis of production, theoretical framework, context, and creation. Also, in studying film, possible careers include critic or production. Overall the study of film continues to grow, as does the industry on which it focuses. Academic journals publishing film studies work include Sight & Sound , Film Comment , Film International , CineAction , Screen , Journal of Cinema and Media Studies , Film Quarterly , Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, and Journal of Film and Video . Film studies as an academic discipline emerged in

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792-569: The case of a death row prisoner, Walter McMillian , whom he fought to free. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2019, and was theatrically released on December 25, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures . Just Mercy was critically acclaimed. In March 2019, Cretton was hired by Marvel Studios to direct a film based on Shang-Chi . Both the film and Cretton's involvement were confirmed during San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, with

828-405: The film being titled Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings . The film, which is Marvel's first superhero movie tentpole franchise with an Asian protagonist, stars Simu Liu as the title character, with Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Awkwafina co-starring. On January 5, 2020, Cretton said that he signed up to the project because he wanted "to give [his] son a superhero to look up to". The film

864-846: The film program. Brooks' artistic role at the AFI Conservatory has a rich legacy that includes Daniel Petrie, Jr. , Robert Wise and Frank Pierson . Former Deans of the AFI Conservatory include Robert Mandel , Jan Schuette and Richard Gladstein . Susan Ruskin is the current Dean of the AFI Conservatory and Executive Vice President of AFI. Among those AFI has bestowed Honorary Degrees upon during its annual Commencement ceremony are Maya Angelou , John Williams , Ken Burns , Sherry Lansing , Sydney Pollack , Clint Eastwood , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Kathleen Kennedy , Spike Lee , Rita Moreno , and Quentin Tarantino . AFI Conservatory thesis films have been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and earned 2 wins. In 2023, The Hollywood Reporter ranked AFI as

900-551: The influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma , wrote: "Jerry Lewis [...] is the only one in Hollywood doing something different, the only one who isn't falling in with the established categories, the norms, the principles. [...] Lewis is the only one today who's making courageous films." A catalyst in the success and stature of academic film studies has been large donations to universities by successful commercial filmmakers. For example, director George Lucas donated $ 175 million to

936-504: The island of Maui . He is of half-Japanese descent. He was home-schooled by his Christian mother. His sister Joy is a costume designer who has worked on several of Destin's projects. He lived in Haiku in a two-bedroom house with his five siblings, until he was 19 years old. He moved to San Diego, California , to attend Point Loma Nazarene University , where he majored in communications . After graduating, Cretton worked for two years as

972-491: The production of film, especially directing and producing films. Courses often combine alternate media, such as television or new media , in combination with film studies. Film-studies programs at all levels are offered worldwide, primarily in the countries in the Global North . In many cases, film studies can be found in departments of media studies or communication studies . Film archives and museums such as

1008-485: The series and developing it with series creator and showrunner Andrew Guest . In July, Cretton was confirmed as the director of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty for Marvel Studios. In November 2023, Cretton stepped down as the director of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty to focus on other Marvel projects, such as the Shang-Chi sequel and Wonder Man . In December 2022, Cretton was revealed to be an executive producer on

1044-429: The short film Same Old , which was written and directed by Lloyd Lee Choi . Cretton is set to produce a feature-length film adaptation of the short, titled Lucky Lu , through his Family Owned banner alongside Ron Najor and Asher Goldstein, with Choi returning as writer and director. The following year, Cretton was reported to be an executive producer on Choi's short film Closing Dynasty . In February 2024, Cretton

1080-491: The silent film star who gave the first seminar, takes place on campus and runs throughout the academic year. It brings AFI Conservatory Fellows together with artists to share their work and experiences in an informal setting. The program has graduated more than 5,000 Fellows. AFI Conservatory alumni include: Film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical , historical , and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and

1116-406: The studio was seeking the male lead. The film was released on August 10, 2017. It received mixed reviews from critics; they praised the performances of its cast (particularly Larson and Harrelson) but criticized the emotional tones and adaptation of the source material. In 2016, it was announced that Ryan Coogler had teamed up with Cretton and poet/playwright Chinaka Hodge to develop Minors ,

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1152-467: The world to focus on film. In the United States, the USC School of Cinematic Arts , established in 1929, was the first cinematic-based school, which was created in agreement with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It was also the first to offer an academic major in film in 1932, but the program lacked many of the distinctions associated with contemporary film study. Universities began to implement cinema-related curricula without separation of

1188-453: Was attached to rewrite the script and direct The Glass Castle , an adaptation of Jeannette Walls ' 2005 best-selling memoir of the same name about a successful young woman raised by severely dysfunctional parents. Starring Brie Larson, the film also features Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts as her alcoholic father and eccentric mother, respectively. Larson's role was originally considered by Jennifer Lawrence , but she dropped out while

1224-430: Was released in theaters on September 3, 2021. In December 2021, Cretton signed a deal with Marvel Studios and Hulu 's Onyx Collective to develop a Shang-Chi sequel and new Disney+ MCU series through his production banner Family Owned. In June 2022, the series was revealed to be in early development and titled Wonder Man , centered on the character Simon Williams / Wonder Man , with Cretton directing two episodes of

1260-625: Was set to be released on February 12, 2021, but was delayed to May 7 and later July 9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . During the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, S hang-Chi's production in Australia was temporarily suspended while Cretton self-isolated. Production was halted on March 12, 2020, and resumed in August 2020 and concluded in October 2020. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

1296-461: Was the creation of the auteur theory , which examines film as the director's vision and art, that broadened the scope of academic film studies to a worldwide presence in the 1960s. In 1965, film critic Robin Wood , in his writings on Alfred Hitchcock , declared that Hitchcock's films contained the same complexities of Shakespeare 's plays. Similarly, French director Jean Luc Godard , a contributor to

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