Learn Filmmaking in Paris

Honest level: Intermediate -> Professional — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Filmmaking Summer School in Paris

A three-week, fully English-taught residential summer program where international students make their first cinematic project end to end — shooting on professional cinema cameras, lighting, directing and directing actors, and editing in industry-standard studios. Students collaborate on an interdisciplinary film project alongside peers from the sound design, acting, and animation tracks. Housing is included at the 3iS student residence, making it a genuinely immersive option for learners worldwide.

Next sessions: 2026-07-06

Unlike La Fémis's Summer University (restricted to grant-funded non-EU applicants under 27 with French fluency), this is an open, English-language, residential immersive an international learner can actually attend in Paris.

€3,900 (housing included for the 3-week period)

Why 3iS International School of Creative Arts

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3iS (Institut International de l'Image et du Son, founded 1988) runs one of Europe's largest creative-industries campuses, so students train in cinema, sound, and audiovisual production on professional-grade equipment and real productions rather than in classrooms alone.

Schools in Paris

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• 3iS – International School of Creative Arts (Paris)
  Filmmaking Summer School in Paris
  A three-week, fully English-taught residential summer program where international students make their first cinematic project end to end — shooting on professional cinema cameras, lighting, directing
  https://3is-international.com/summer-school/
• La Fémis
  Directing (Réalisation) four-year programme
  France's state film school under the Ministry of Culture, admitting by competitive exam and training around 50 students a year across directing, cinematography, screenwriting, editing, sound and producing in a four-year tutor-led programme.
  https://www.femis.fr/
• École Louis-Lumière
  Master Cinéma (three-year diploma)
  A public grande école near Paris teaching cinema, photography and sound, recruiting at Bac+2 by competitive exam into three project-heavy Master programmes culminating in a Bac+5 diploma and research dissertation.
  https://www.ens-louis-lumiere.fr/
• CLCF (Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français)
  State-certified three-year film and audiovisual cycle
  Paris's oldest private film school (founded 1963), running a state-certified three-year cycle (two common years plus a specialisation year) toward roles such as assistant director, editor, script supervisor and screenwriter.
  https://www.clcf.com/

The credential

Film School Diploma / MFA in Film & TV Production · Certifying body: National film-school diploma / MFA (no single global body)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Filmmaking

What I check before I send you anywhere

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• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.