film student

Studies moving pictures

A film student is someone studying cinema at a university or film school, learning directing, screenwriting, cinematography, or related disciplines.

The term often carries connotations of artistic pretension and strong opinions about obscure directors: Every film student goes through a Kubrick phase.

Film students are stereotyped as broke, overly serious about their medium, and eager to explain why something is actually cinema, not just a movie.

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editing · final cut · indie · lens · shot · jump cut · montage · reel · script · storyboard · black and white · darkroom · thesis · arthouse · Tarantino · Kubrick · critique · festival

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professional status

film studentstudio executive

Film industry decision-maker

industry insider · auteur · Oscar winner · movie star

role in education

film studentthesis advisor

Faculty overseeing graduate research

Family

film, student, films, filmed, filming, filmy, filmier, filmiest, filminess

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