With determination, passion and faith in our own abilities, nothing is unattainable. What if I told you that forty years ago, in Paris, while receiving all the riches of my French masters, and working on American films shooting in France, I knew that one day I would be exactly where I am today: in a school like the Los Angeles Film School, giving back to your generation of filmmakers all the benefits of my long and successful career as a director, writer and producer. And I am not talking only about lecturing and teaching, I am talking about mentoring. About sharing tools and secrets of the trade. About listening to your dreams and ambitions and guiding you through their fulfillment. About helping you discover how to have fun on a set, liberated through homework and craft, free of the unresolved doubts and anxieties that do not belong to the legitimate anguish of an artist. With determination, passion and faith in your own abilities, nothing is unattainable.

We envision storytelling in film as the delicate orchestration of a highly-trained, specialized team. During our unique 12-month program, students receive a broad overview of all seven of the filmmaking crafts and then focus intensively on two. For us, this specialized craft training is achieved only in an intense, mentored environment: you will have a camera in your hands on day one and most of your classes will be small 8-12 student classes where your work will be under continual and close review with professional film mentors and peers. In order to keep the class sizes small, we offer six different class-starts a year, in September, November, January, March, May, and July.

One of the advantages of being located in the heart of Hollywood is having a faculty that is unparalleled in the world. Our faculty is staffed by working professional filmmakers who craft many of the most striking and original films of today - their credits range from Chasing Amy, Magnolia, and The Blair Witch Project to Fight Club, Jerry Maguire, and Minority Report. For us, Hollywood is the classroom; we are committed to crafting an active, rich and exciting atmosphere where teachers are moving back and forth from their movie sets to our classrooms. This is a faculty that knows how to succeed in this competitive field, understands how the film industry works, and cares passionately about how movies are made today.

The motion picture industry is undergoing a historic change: the time of flatbeds, splicing tape, and 16mm is over, pushed aside by AVID, ProTools, and digital, high-definition cameras. The cutting-edge movie-making toolbox we have assembled here is the envy of other film schools and movie studios alike. We teach you the art of filmmaking using the technology of today and tomorrow rather than the technology of the past.

Unlike many other film schools, you own outright all the films and projects you make at the Los Angeles Film School.

We want you to build your career, not your debt; our intensive 12-month program costs a fraction of that of traditional three and four year film schools. In addition, spending one intense year in training rather than the traditional three to four years allows you to start working and earning as a film professional much more quickly.