A question I get asked a lot is some form of
Is film school worth it?
It’s a complicated question that every person has to answer for themselves, but I wanted to focus on one aspect of it which I like to call the Film School Paradox: as the cost of making films goes down, the cost of film school goes up.
The absurdly high cost of a graduate education in the United States continues to rise with no end in sight. A recent article in the New York Times gives a dire prognostication:
With unemployment soaring, higher education has never been more important to society or more widely desired. But the collapse of our public education system and the skyrocketing cost of private education threaten to make college unaffordable for millions of young people. If recent trends continue, four years at a top-tier school will cost $330,000 in 2020, $525,000 in 2028 and $785,000 in 2035.
Seven-hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars! read more