If you have a knack for movies and even intend to be the next Michael Bay or Steven Spielberg, then you should consider film school. Actually, there are a lot of options out there. You only need to consider which one is going to lead you to having an Academy Award.

However, choosing which school to attend can get a little complicated. You should gather as much information as you can about film schools for you to easily choose and come up with a smart decision. Don’t you just wish that you can have a site or a book that would inform you of the right school to pick for yourself. It’s just too bad that there is no one source to provide you with all those. A good solution to this would be checking out school rankings since these information can provide you with useful information.

A quantitative analysis of various indicators of excellence is involved in school rankings. Faculty resources, graduation rate and retention are also included. In reality, film school rankings seem to be depending more on qualitative measures just like the industry’s reputation or student’s experience. In the end, film school rankings boils down to which schools have made a good name in showbiz or have produced big-name and up-and-coming directors.

Degrees or top certification in film production and cinematography can be provided by top film schools, paving the true path to a career as a director, producer, cinematographer, scriptwriter, or film critic. Top film schools have program offerings in film production and cinematography and will let you have a professional certificate or a degree in associate, baccalaureate, or masters in media history, film editing, digital film creation, camera use, ethics and other related areas to film media and motion pictures.

Courses in this field are also offered at vocational schools, community colleges, or four-year colleges and universities with top film schools as they try to blend vision with technological expertise. Undergraduate classes include film history, directing, scriptwriting, animation, production, audio production, and film criticism. Production programs are made part of graduate possibilities and may result to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). Degrees such as Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film-making or a dual MFA and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Producing can be earned by a graduate student. These programs force MFA students to make at least 5 movies and at the same time work as camera operators and crew members.

New York University and the University of Southern California both have excellent top film schools. They offer undergraduate and graduate courses for students who are interested to join the movie business as producers, filmmakers, scriptwriters and film critics as well.

Playwright Juan Antonio Ramos grew bored of seeing interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, having grown up a poor immigrant in the US he felt little connection with the characters, he says “I found them too ‘English pudding’ for my tastes” so he imagined life would have been like in his town back in the 19^th century. This developed into his own play A Mexican Christmas Carol, a play about the culture in which he was raised which will premier on the main stage of the Western Stage Theater at Hartnell College, Salinas, California.

The playis set in an impoverished town in central Mexico in the 1800s, it follows the basic premise of Dickens original novel except that the main protagonists including, including Scrooge, the ghosts and Bob Cratchit, are all women.

Ramos says: “This is because, from my experience, Mexican culture is very matriarchal, the women in my family were very strong and resilient. All these women have these characteristics.”

The role which is based on Scrooge is Dona Avaricia, that’s lady avarice in English, who is wealthy and aristocratic. She is the landowner for the whole town and wields her power over the indigenous population who live there. There is no ‘dinero facil’ for any of these people and Dona Avaricia squeezes every last peso out of them.

Dona Avaricia is Hispanic and regards herself as superior to the other indigenous characters who live in the town, including the character who reflects the original Bob Cratchit; the housekeeper Amparo.

When Dona Avaricia is haunted by the spirits of Christmases past, present and future they all have particular Mexican cultural significance, the emphasis is less on money but on race and prejudice, although none of the characters would ever qualify for a prestamos personales en efectivo or a prestamos inmediatos the emphasis is on the prejudices that Dona Avaricia is able to leave behind.