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Today's Guest: Jason B. Kohl, film director and author of Film School: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with JASON B. KOHL by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of life-long film students who never realized they could have learned everything they needed to know about cinema from a four-year degree and by watching Mr. Media’s Top 10 movies: Caddyshack, Animal House, Serpico, the original Planet of the Apes… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Little known fact: my bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida is in film studies.

Not that anyone studying film there or anywhere else today would recognize my independent study degree in today’s high pressure world of film schools.

JASON B. KOHL podcast excerpt: "Film school is a not a two- to four-year slog to become famous! It's about learning to be a complete human being and how to communicate with the world."

You can LISTEN to this interview with filmmaker JASON B> KOHL, author of FILM SCHOOL: A Practical Guide to an Impractical Decision, by clicking the audio player above!

Jason B. Kohl, on the other hand, is a model of what every young kid attending film school at USC, UCLA, NYU, FSU, Ringling, SCAD and other top schools want to accomplish. He’s a former Fulbright Scholar with an MFA in Directing from UCLA Film School. His short films have played SXSW and been finalists for the Student Academy Awards.
JASON B, KOHL podcast excerpt: "There is a lot of strategy involved in applying to film schools: when you finish your student films, to send them to all the festivals, and when you'll hear back from those festivals. Things take a really long time. Film festivals are the same process as film schools; I had completely written off my UCLA thesis film the day before it got into SXSW because to got rejected by so man

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