Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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Smetanovo nábř. 1012/2, 110 00 Praha-Staré Město, Czechia Print route »
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The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech: Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze) or FAMU is one of the oldest film schools in the world. Located in Prague, Czech Republic, FAMU was founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The teaching language at most of programs at FAMU is Czech, but FAMU offers also programs in English: summer workshops, one-year Academy Program, Special Productions - or MFA program Cinema in Digital Media. According to The Hollywood Reporter weekly, FAMU is the best film school in Europe and No. 11 in the world.FAMU’s main building is situated in an attractive location in the historic centre of Prague. The school includes Studio FAMU, a production and postproduction facility with fully equipped soundstages and TV studios and continuously innovated technology for realising student works. Each autumn, FAMU organises the Famufest festival, a showcase of its students’ current work as well as an accompanying cultural programme and visits by prominent figures in filmmaking.
In the 1960s and 1970s, several young directors from Yugoslavia were FAMU students (Rajko Grlić, Srđan Karanović, Emir Kusturica, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević and Lordan Zafranović). All of these directors would become very successful in the following decades, prompting the coinage of the term Praška filmska škola ("Prague film school"), or Praški talas ("Prague wave"), which is sometimes considered a prominent subgenre of the Yugoslav cinema.
