The AFI Conservatory is a division of the American Film Institute founded in 1969, located in Hollywood's Griffith Park. The school is the only existing Master of Fine Arts conservatory in advanced film education. In July 2011, it was voted the #1 film school in the world by The Hollywood Reporter which called it “among the most selective film schools in America,” with its Fellows benefiting from “speakers and teachers drawn from the highest levels of the industry, supported by the full weight of AFI itselfAFI's glittering parade of alumni, from David Lynch to Darren... Aronofsky, remains unrivaled when it comes to auteur filmmakers...If you know where you're going, AFI can get you there.” It is ranked in the top 5 graduate film programs along with USC, UCLA, NYU and California Institute of the Arts by the Princeton Review and US News and World Report Over the years, the program has graduated 3,000 fellows, many of whom went on to become influential Hollywood filmmakers.
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