The international filmschool cologne (ifs) (German: internationale filmschule köln) is a privately funded film school

Film school

The term film school is used to describe any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film theory, digital media production, and screenwriting. Film history courses and hands-on technical training are usually incorporated into...

 in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany

Germany

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. The film school was founded by Filmstiftung NRW.

In the German film school ranking of FOCUS

Focus (German magazine)

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 (Issue 22/2006), the international filmschool cologne - together with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the dffb

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin is a film school in Berlin, Germany.In the German film school ranking of FOCUS , the dffb - together with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the international filmschool cologne - were ranked as 2nd after the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg...

 - were ranked as 2nd after the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg

Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg

The Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg is a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film schools and known for its Institute for Animation and Visual Effects...

. Evaluation criteria were the reputation of the university, the support for the students, the technical equipment and the number of awards won.

Faculty

Professors and guest teachers at the ifs include:

• Hans-Christian Schmid
  Hans-Christian Schmid
  Hans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life and work:Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with Michael Gutmann on several of his the film that he has directed. Gutmann wrote screenplays for 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint , and Crazy...
  
  
• Keith Johnstone
  Keith Johnstone
  Keith Johnstone is a drama instructor whose teachings and books have focused on improvisational theatre and have had a major influence on the art of improvisation.-Education:...
  
  
• David Bordwell
  David Bordwell
  David Bordwell is an American film theorist and film historian. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974, he has written more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film , Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema , Making Meaning , and On the...
  
  
• Klaus Maria Brandauer
  Klaus Maria Brandauer
  Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Frank Griebe
  Frank Griebe
  Frank Griebe is a German cinematographer.He is most popular for his work with German director Tom Tykwer. He photographed his movies Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , Heaven , The Princess and the Warrior, Run Lola Run, Wintersleepers and The International .He also worked with Sönke Wortmann on...
  
  
• Seymour Cassel
  Seymour Cassel
  Seymour Joseph Cassel is an American actor.He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/directorJohn Cassavetes...
  
  
• Donn Cambern
  Donn Cambern
  Donn Cambern is a film editor. Cambern was born in Los Angeles, California, and obtained a B.A. in music from UCLA. Cambern is presently senior filmmaker-in-residence at the American Film Institute Conservatory....
  
  

External links

• http://www.filmschule.de official website
• http://www.filmschule.de/engl/frame_engl.php3 official website