Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

Alia Arasoughly, Shashat, PalestineNicholas Balaisis, Trent University, CanadaAnton Basson, South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, South AfricaGerda Dullaart, South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, South AfricaArmida de la Garza, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, ChinaScott MacKenzie, York University, CanadaChristopher Meir, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and TobagoToby Millerk, City University of London, UKHamid Naficy, Northwestern University, USAOsakue Stevenson Omoera, Ambrose Alli University, NigeriaRod Stoneman, National University of Ireland, GalwayKeyan Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal, DurbanGeorge Yúdice, University of Miami, USA

• More than Film School: Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-based Film Education Warrants Attention; Mette Hjort PART I: AFRICA 1. Audience Response in Film Education; Anton Basson, Keyan Tomaselli, Gerda Dullaart 2. Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria; Osakue Stevenson Omoera 3. Global Interchange: the Same, but Different; Rod Stoneman PART II: THE MIDDLE EAST 4. Branch-Campus Initiatives to Train Media-Makers and Journalists: Northwestern University's Branch Campus in Doha, Qatar; Hamid Naficy 5. Film Education in Palestine Post-Oslo: The Experience of Shashat; Alia Arasoughly 6. Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark's 'Middle East Project'; Mette Hjort PART III: THE AMERICAS 7. Goodbye to Film School: Please Close the Door on Your Way Out; Toby Miller 8. 'An Arrow Not a Target': Film Process and Processing at the Independent Imaging Retreat; Scott MacKenzie 9. The School for Every World: Internationalism and Residual Socialism at EICTV; Nicholas Balaisis 10. Building Film Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean: Film Education at the University of the West Indies; Christopher Meir 11. Practice-based Film Education for Children: Teaching and Learning for Creativity, Citizenship, and Participation; Armida de la Garza 12. Audiovisual Educational Practice in Latin America's Peripheries; George Yúdice

To come.