Film Connection Film Producing PROGRAM

FILM PRODUCING

The Film Connection Producing School is an innovative and effective four to six month program that delivers first-hand practical job experience, working on movie sets and productions, under the mentorship of working producers.   Not only will you learn valuable lessons from your mentors, you'll pick up tricks-of-the trade that you would never learn from a conventional film school.  All this can be obtained for 75% less tuition than other film schools.

If we accept you into The Film Connection Producing School, and not everyone is accepted, you will be matched with your mentor--a real film producer who is active in the business.  Your mentor will train you, one-on-one, as you help produce their real-world film and video projects.   No classroom based course can come close to exposing you to the excitement, the energy, and the real-world situations that working on actual film and video projects brings.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

If accepted into our Producing Program you will learn how to be a cuckoo clock maker… (just kidding). You will learn Producing of course! The Film Connection Producing Program is designed to teach you decision-making, under impossible conditions and stressful situations, in other words, the life of the Producer.   It should be clear that no college teacher can re-create this real-world atmosphere inside a classroom, which is why Film Connection employs the mentor/ apprentice method of training. 

WHAT DOES A FILM PRODUCER DO?

In general, the film producer oversees the entire film production.  They literally act as the supervisor to the various departments involved in the project and are the hands-on person in charge of the budget.  These duties require a combination of high caliber people skills, negotiating ability, talent spotting and business acumen.  Often, the film producer evolves into the position, having been battle-trained and seasoned as a line producer, segment producer or associate producer.  The Film Connection Producer School is designed to put you in front of a real producer, in real production situations so that you can observe and participate first-hand in the duties and responsibilities of the producer.

WHAT DOES THE PRODUCER NEED TO KNOW?

You need confidence and a take-charge mentality to make it as a film producer.  By definition, your job requires you to deal with a lot of egos and powerful entities and you have to be up to the task.  Can you think on your feet?  Are you good at problem solving?  Can you convince people to follow your lead?  Are you ready to meet some of our graduates and read for yourself how our unique program works?

STUDENT TESTIMONIAL

Ever since I can remember, my passion has been filmmaking.  Upon graduation from high school, I was lucky enough to have a friend recommend the Film Connection film school to me.   During my training in their school, I was able to experience, first hand, working on real film sets on a couple of feature films.  While I found all aspects of the film industry fascinating, it was producing that most intrigued me.  Thanks to the Film Connection, I was able to switch goals in mid-stream and got assigned a new mentor who was a working producer in Hollywood.  Since I graduated from Film Connection, I have been able to work on a regular basis, thanks to the film business connections and contacts I made while attending their film school.