nurturing film/trouble-makers
[interview, Professor Bob Rosen, part 1 - 5 minutes 57 seconds][interview, Professor Bob Rosen, part 2 - 5 minutes 44 seconds]
Professor Bob Rosen is head of the film and television school at University of California and Los Angeles, who believes "visions of imagination" and "commitments of risk taking" are the keys for film students of going into the industry.
Referring former top film school graduates such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola, as trouble makers, Professor Rosen claimed that the best investment of the media is to train "troublemakers", who dare to break free from the conventions and create something new.
Professor Rosen was in Australia recently as a guest of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney, RMIT University in Melbourne, and the Australian Film Institute. And Arts Alive's Vincent O'Donnell asked him about running a film school in the shadow of Hollywood, the role of film schools take in the film industry, the strategies UCLA uses to nurture "troublemakers" and how the university gets financed.
Professor Rosen also dicsussed with Vincent on what role Australian film schools should take, as well as telling his opinions on Australian films and film making, and most important development in the film and television industry.
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