Filmmakers David Lynch, Terrence Malick and Paul Schrader and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel were early students.
When the AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies — now known as the AFI Conservatory — opened 50 years ago, the students included cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and filmmakers Terrence Malick and Paul Schrader.
“There were no courses,” Deschanel recalled. “People would come in and sort of give talks, but it wasn’t like at 10 a.m. you have a course in cinematography and then you have editing at 2 in the afternoon. There was none of that.” The AFI Conservatory is celebrating its 50th anniversary Thursday evening at Greystone Mansion with a cocktail reception and short program. Numerous alumni and faculty are scheduled to attend, including filmmaker George Stevens Jr., who helped found the AFI and was its first director and CEO. “The AFI and the conservatory was really inspired by President Kennedy — his belief in the importance of the arts,” said Stevens. “Then it flowered under [President Lyndon] Johnson’s Great Society.
There are currently 264 fellows at the conservatory, and this year’s graduating class was 45% female and 55% male, with 38% international students. The 2020 graduating class is 55% female.Oscar-winning writer-director-producer James L. Brooks is currently the artistic director at AFI. Susan Ruskin was named this past June as the new — and first female — dean of the conservatory. She spent the last six years as dean of filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Zwick remembered that by his second day at AFI he was already working on a film project. “You end up working with someone from the cinematography program, the design program and someone from the editing program. It’s kind of a boot camp that’s modeled on what people do when they first go to the military or when they have to go into physical training. If you can get through this, you know, the business itself will seem a little less intimidating.
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