Brooks Institute of Photography

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The Brooks Institute of Photography was founded in 1945 and has a great Film and Video Production program.

From the Brooks Institute of Photography Website:

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
-Orson Welles

Brooks’ comprehensive film and video production curricula offer hands-on study of professional filmmaking and production techniques, everything from proposals and budgeting to scripting, directing, and editing. For more info - contact us!

The film program began at Brooks Institute in the mid 50's. Considered by those in the industry as one of the field's best kept secrets, this program has a long standing history of graduating some of the best in the field. Isidore Mankofsky, Cinematography for The Muppet Movie and Somewhere in Time; Dominick Palmer, Cinematography on the TV series M*A*S*H; Robert Legato, Academy Award winner for Best Effects (Digital Domain) on the movie Titanic, and Visual Effects Supervisor for The Aviator; and most recently, graduate Boris Undorf, Best Cinematography at New York's VisionFest '04' Festival for Sonata.

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