New Editing Lessons
Enhance Your Film Editing Curriculum Emmy-winning television and film editors take students inside the workflow, art, and technique of narrative film editing. Applicable to every
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The movie industry's most comprehensive online filmmaking curriculum, designed by industry leaders, prepares your students for a successful filmmaking career.
325+ Modular Lessons
Spanning the entire filmmaking process from development to distribution, you have an entire content library to enhance your lectures – visually.
FilmSkills Academic has partnered with Emmy and Academy Award winning filmmakers to produce a comprehensive online filmmaking curriculum for educators that combines in-depth videos based on industry best practices, constantly-updated illustrated tutorials, downloadable resources, classroom exercises, and student assessment tools– all for less than the cost of a textbook.
"FilmSkills is incredible! It brought our class levels so much higher and made my teaching more effective."
– Luke Mielke, Maranatha Baptist University
325+ Modular Lessons
Spanning the entire filmmaking process from development to distribution, you have an entire content library to enhance your lectures – visually.
FilmSkills Academic has partnered with Emmy and Academy Award winning filmmakers to produce an extensive online resource that combines in-depth videos based on industry best practices, constantly updated illustrated tutorials, downloadable resources, classroom exercises, and student assessment tools– all for less than the cost of a textbook.
150 Hours of On-Set Video Tutorials
In-depth video tutorials shot on Hollywood sets feature Emmy and Academy Award winning and nominated filmmakers. Chapterized for easy access.
Hundreds of Illustrated Articles
Packed with behind-the-scenes photos, anecdotes, and real-world tips and techniques, beautifully-illustrated articles bring difficult concepts to life.
Over 4,000 Test Questions
Create customizable group tests in minutes and access our library of over 5,000 test questions, carefully written from the content in each lesson.
Hundreds of Downloadable Resources
Students can download real documents from working TV and movie sets, plus hundreds of blank templates for use on their own productions.
Web Links
Students will discover the players in the industry from equipment vendors, staffing agencies, networks, studios, and production companies with our online resources.
Mix and Match Lessons
Mix and match from over 325 lessons and create a custom learning path for each class.
Customize the learning path in each class within minutes by selecting lessons that support what you want to teach. Each class can be different, helping you tailor your students’ learning experience.
Need help building your class? Explore our curriculum guides, in which we suggest lesson pairings based on subject matter.
FilmSkills is a fantastic academic resource, populated with a wealth of knowledge that is generously supplied by industry professionals. It is surprisingly comprehensive and accessible, and an invaluable supplemental tool that will only strengthen an aspiring filmmaker's vocabulary, comprehension, and knowledge base.
– Microfilmmaker Magazine
Mix and Match Lessons
Mix and match from over 325 lessons and create a custom learning path for each class.
Customize the learning path in each class within minutes by selecting lessons that support what you want to teach. Each class can be different, helping you tailor your students’ learning experience.
Need help building your class? Explore our curriculum guides, in which we suggest lesson pairings based on subject matter.
Powerful Teaching Tools and Resources
Manage, Test, and Certify Your Students with Ease
FilmSkills Academic’s cutting-edge white label platform lets you manage student rosters, create group tests, assign projects, build certifications, author your own content, build online courses, and engage students with robust teaching tools.
Assign and Manage Class Content
Assign lessons, projects, tests to your students, track lesson engagement, and much more.
Manage Your Student Roster
Set seat limits for each class, auto-enroll students, and track student logins.
Testing and Assessment Tools
Build auto-grading group tests with time limits, grading options, and manage your own questions.
Grade Book and Attendance
Track, edit, and curve grades and attendance for the entire class and individual students.
Interactive Projects and Exercises
Create, assign, accept student submissions, and grade student projects and exercises.
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23 All-New Crew Lessons
There are a lot of craftspeople on a film set, and in this all new 23-part series, leading Hollywood crews from blockbuster TV shows and
New Scheduling and Budgeting Lessons
In this engaging new series, students learn how to balance the business of filmmaking with the art through effectively breaking down the shooting script, developing
Learning Professional Skills to Direct Actors
All newly update lessons reveal to students how professionals direct actors on set for convincing, authentic performances. And as with all FilmSkills Academic lessons, the
Get Your Students Ready to Shoot on Location
We partnered with the powerhouse Location Managers from Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Transformers 2, Top Gun 2, Spiderman: Homecoming, and Grey’s Anatomy to give your
New Editing Lessons
Enhance Your Film Editing Curriculum Emmy-winning television and film editors take students inside the workflow, art, and technique of narrative film editing. Applicable to every
23 All-New Crew Lessons
There are a lot of craftspeople on a film set, and in this all new 23-part series, leading Hollywood crews from blockbuster TV shows and
New Scheduling and Budgeting Lessons
In this engaging new series, students learn how to balance the business of filmmaking with the art through effectively breaking down the shooting script, developing
Learning Professional Skills to Direct Actors
All newly update lessons reveal to students how professionals direct actors on set for convincing, authentic performances. And as with all FilmSkills Academic lessons, the
Get Your Students Ready to Shoot on Location
We partnered with the powerhouse Location Managers from Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Transformers 2, Top Gun 2, Spiderman: Homecoming, and Grey’s Anatomy to give your
FilmSkills Academic has been widely adopted by over 125 film schools
“Well done. Interesting and gave a great deal of good,
solid information. Love the whole concept and think it is a
breakthrough for this type of teaching.”
Lisa SeguinGrove City College 
“Very straightforward and easy to follow. I also really
appreciate the combination of technical and aesthetics, which is
how I base my class. I would find this to be a very good reference to provide to students.”
William DonarumaUniversity of Notre Dame 
“An excellent resource for both the entry level student and advanced student needing a
visual refresher. Provides both the beginning teacher and the seasoned veteran with the visual resources to enhance any teaching style.”
Christopher ZydowiczBob Jones University 
“I am very impressed by the quality of the video that I have been watching. I will strongly recommend to my peers.”
Weimin ZhangSan Francisco State University 
"Filmskills has provided my students with concise yet critical information from professionals in a format that makes it accessible to them. As a production instructor. Filmskills is not only my collaborator in the classroom, but my best 're-enforcer' of the skills I am teaching."
Sandra LuckowYale University 
"FilmSkills is incredible! It brought our class levels so much higher and made my teaching more effective."
Luke MielkeMaranatha Baptist University 
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Over 125 schools and film commissions have used FilmSkills to enhance their curriculum and better prepare their students for a life in the film industry. Discover how affordable FilmSkills Academic is.
