The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

1. Introduction: More than Film School—Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-Based Film Education Warrants Attention
Mette Hjort

Part I. Africa

2. Audience Response in Film Education
Anton Basson, Keyan Tomaselli, Gerda Dullaart

3. Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria
Osakue Stevenson Omoera

4. Global Interchange: The Same, but Different
Rod Stoneman

Part II. The Middle East

5. Branch-Campus Initiatives to Train Media-Makers and Journalists: Northwestern University’s Branch Campus in Doha, Qatar
Hamid Naficy

6. Film Education in Palestine Post-Oslo: The Experience of Shashat
Alia Arasoughly

7. Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark’s “Middle East Project”
Mette Hjort

Part III. The Americas

8. Goodbye to Film School: Please Close the Door on Your Way Out
Toby Miller

9. “An Arrow, Not a Target”: Film Process and Processing at the Independent Imaging Retreat
Scott MacKenzie

10. The School for Every World: Internationalism and Residual Socialism at EICTV
Nicholas Balaisis

11. Building Film Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean: Film Education at the University of the West Indies
Christopher Meir

12. Practice-Based Film Education for Children: Teaching and Learning for Creativity, Citizenship, and Participation
Armida Garza

13. Audiovisual Educational Practices in Latin America’s Peripheries
George Yúdice

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Film and Television Studies, Directing, Arts, Teaching and Teacher Education