Film School: The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School
✍ Scribed by Boman, Steve
- Book ID
- 107499188
- Publisher
- BenBella Books, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781936661053
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
One L meets You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
In this comic and moving and completely true tale, Film School reveals what life is like at the elite school that trained Hollywood's biggest names.
When Midwestern journalist Steve Boman applied to the University of Southern California's vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, the world's oldest and most prestigious film school, he had more than a few strikes against him: His wife was recovering from thyroid cancer. His beloved sister had just died of leukemia. He lost his job. He had three young children. He was in his late 30s.... And he had no experience in filmmaking.
As Boman navigates his way through USC's arduous three-year graduate production program, he finds that his films fall flat, he's threatened with being kicked out of the program and he becomes the old guy no one wants to work with. Defeated, he quits and moves back to the Midwest to be with his family. After he is urged by his wife to...