admissions

Application — Deadlines & Forms

Submitting your application

All email applications or inquiries, if not answered within 48 hours, should be followed-up by a telephone call to make sure that they were received. Due to anti-spam filtering and anti-virus settings, some emails may not be delivered; we want to ensure that your correspondence reaches us.

Application materials are not returned.

Privacy notice

When we receive your application, we will store the specific data you have submitted in our records. This is to ensure we can review your application and to have a reference of our communication in the future. If you would prefer that no data is stored when you communicate with us, please feel free to email your request to our data protection officer: info@praguefilmschool.cz

Student Profile

Prague Film School is an international film school in Prague open to applicants of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of merit and creative potential.

Production experience is not a requisite for getting admitted, but of course welcome. Students applying to Prague Film School come from a wide-spectrum of backgrounds, from the professional filmmaker to the initiate.

Applicant Categories at Prague Film School:

1. 1)advanced filmmakers who may have already completed degree filmmaking programs back home and who have already made festival-level or professional film products;
2. 2)theater actors, acting conservatory graduates without formal training or experience in acting for film;
3. 3)intermediate applicants who have significant production experience as autodidacts or work in a film-related area but who have received little to no formal training.
4. 4)applicants with a background in cinema theory, acting, media studies, journalism, humanities who have not yet had any production experience but who demonstrate a history of interest in film.

We welcome applications from motivated, independent and hardworking individuals. Students are in class 6-8 hours per day and are also busy with homework, shooting and writing scripts. During production periods, which constitute 20-30 days per semester, shooting may last up to 12-14 hours/daily. Studies are very intensive and demanding and require a high level of personal discipline.

Acceptance Notification

Students are notified about acceptance within 10 - 21 days from the designated application deadline. Students applying from non-European or North American countries are encouraged to apply at least 4 months prior to the start of their desired programs to ensure student visas are issued in time.

Submitting Applications

All application materials can be submitted via Internet. Applicants are advised, however, to check by telephone to make sure that the application was received.

Students applying to semester or year programs are requested to respond to two essay questions on the application form and to provide a sample creative portfolio. Semester and year students are also encouraged to provide two letters of recommendation.

Tuition Fees

Governmental funding through ministries of education

Students applying to Prague Film School may be eligible for government funding or loans through their national ministries of education.

Presently, the Icelandic Ministry of Education and the Swedish Ministry of Education have approved Prague Film School programs for grant or loan assistance. If a British national, for information on financial assistance to support your learning, please contact 0800 100 900

Frequently Asked Questions

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