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Become a filmmaker Skip the debt.

The film industry is saturated. The streaming plateau, studio consolidation and other challenges have put thousands of filmmakers out of work. Yet universities and film schools continue to charge enormous fees to learn the craft. The good news? There's a better way.

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Complete Training On The Craft

You'll take your own idea through all phases of the filmmaking process.

Phase 01

Development

idea, structure, script, and knowing when it's actually ready.

Phase 02

Pre-Production

preparation happens here: script breakdown, shot lists and more.

Phase 03

Production

camera, lighting, sound, and working with your actors.

Phase 04

Post Production

editing, color grading, sound design. The final phases of story.

Phase 05

Marketing

festivals, audience, and marketing yourself as a filmmaker.

240 lessons across 21 modules · plus 12 months in the private community and every future update

Film school comparison

What others charge

Regardless of what film school you graduate from, you have a singular objective after graduation: Make movies. But they're on your dime. Along with food, rent and everything else. If you're tabbed out after film school, it could be roll credits on your dreams.

Detail

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Leading film schools

Tuition

$997 Lifetime access. Development, pre-production, production, post and marketing.

Online UCLA Online Certificate: $12,000–$14,000 / yr
USC Online 8-Unit Course: $18,000
LAFS Online Bachelors: $57,000 Campus — excludes living costs USC Undergraduate: $71,647 / yr
UCLA Undergraduate: $49,354 / yr
NYU Undergraduate: $86,073 / yr
AFI MFA: $68,795 · Full Sail: $88,000
Chapman: $67,490 · UNC: $24,231

Gear

Optional kit — you keep it Equipment that doesn't disappear at graduation.

USC Online: none
UCLA Online: none
LA Film School: TechKit
Campus schools: loaned, and only while enrolled

Alumni network

YesPlus a private community of working filmmakers.

Varies by school

Results guarantee

YesFinish the program. If it didn't deliver, ask for your money back.

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Or spread it across 12 months at $97.

A Guarantee No Other Film School Will Offer You.

Every film school takes your tuition and wishes you luck. We do something none of them will: complete the full training, and if it didn't deliver, simply ask for your money back..

There's also a standard 30-day refund at the start if it isn't for you. Two guarantees, because the real risk in choosing a film education isn't the price. It's finding out too late that it didn't work after you spent your last dime.

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Wanna Know More?

Choosing how to become a filmmaker isn't really about the money. It's about the dream. This is a big decision. Plug in your email and we'll send you a few emails that talk about this in more detail.

Why not traditional film school?

We're not against them. We're against the invoice.

The industry doesn't check your diploma. It checks your reel. Schools know this, and charge six figures anyway.

Graduating isn't a path. Most filmmakers finish, look up, and find no reliable next step waiting for them.

Waiting costs years. Chasing favors and saving for gear delays the only thing that actually makes you a director: directing.

We teach script to end credits. Not a specialty. The whole job, because on your first films you'll be doing most of it yourself.

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From people who enrolled

Your instructor

Kyler Boudreau

Kyler began his career in Hollywood as a production assistant on studio films. He then transitioned to the world of independent film, where he has worked on many feature-length and short films in various roles — from writer and director to editor, colorist and post sound designer.

Kyler and his wife Sandi run Theater Eleven Pictures, an independent film production company.

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Write & Direct isn't about theory. It's about action. Transformation. It's time to change your stars.

Enrollment options

$997 once, or $97 a month for 12 months. Both include the guarantee.

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