Bigfoot-owned film school carves niche in the Philippines
Wednesday, 22 September 2010 11:44
AMERICAN teacher Nichole Post dreams of one day making films that would help create better understanding among different peoples around the world.
To achieve her dream, the 28-year-old aspiring filmmaker has taken time off from teaching English in South Korea and enrolled at the International Academy of Film and Television in the central Philippines.
The academy, ranked as one of the best film schools in the world by The Hollywood Reporter, was founded in 2004 by Bigfoot Entertainment, an independent film producer, on Mactan Island, Cebu province.
Post said she plans to apply for an internship position at Bigfoot, which also has a state-of-the art film and television studio on Mactan, or search for a producing job after finishing her one-year diploma program on filmmaking next March.
“I want to make social documentaries, like a film on the effects of the 2001 [economic] crisis on the citizens of Buenos Aires or a film on the immigration dispute between the US and Mexico,” she said.
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