Graduate School Of Cinema To Open In Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn’s film production industry will soon have a whole new pool of homegrown talent to recruit from — a group that will study, work and shop in and around Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

That’s because they will be students at Brooklyn College’s new Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, set to open in September, 2015, in Steiner Studios, housed within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as reported by the Brooklyn Eagle.

The school will be located at 25 Washington Avenue inside a 70,000-square-foot renovated building and will offer a Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinema Arts. Courses in cinema history and theory, screenwriting, directing, producing, cinematography and more will be taught.

“All my life I wanted to make movies. Now there is a film school in my backyard in Brooklyn that is public and at the famous Steiner Studios,” said prospective student Eli Stuart on the new school’s website. “How cool is that?”

The school also has the support of notable names in film such as Steven Soderbergh, Ethan Hawke, and Darren Aronofsky.