The Education of the Filmmaker in Europe, Australia, and Asia

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

Part I. Europe

2. Practice-Based Film Education in Lithuania: Main Actors and Sites of Struggle
Renata Šukaitytė

3. Mapping Film Education and Training on the Island of Malta
Charlie Cauchi

4. The Struggle for a Scottish National Film School
Duncan Petrie

5. “We Train Auteurs”: Education, Decentralization, Regional Funding, and Niche Marketing in the New Swedish Cinema
Anna Westerståhl Stenport

6. Divided Dirigisme: Nationalism, Regionalism, and Reform in the German Film Academies
Barton Byg, Evan Torner

7. Sites of Initiation: Film Training Programs at Film Festivals
Marijke Valck

Part II. Australia and Asia

8. Beyond the Modular Film School: Australian Film and Television Schools and their Digital Transitions
Ben Goldsmith, Tom O’Regan

9. Dynamics of the Cultures of Discontent: How Is Globalization Transforming the Training of Filmmakers in Japan?
Yoshiharu Tezuka

10. Learning with Images in the Digital Age
Moinak Biswas

11. Film Schools in the PRC: Professionalization and its Discontents
Yomi Braester

12. Film Education in Hong Kong: New Challenges and Opportunities
Stephen Chan

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Media Studies, Directing, Arts, Film History