Top Schools Series: Hungry for that Film Degree? Here are the Nation’s Top 5 Film Schools

This is the first in a series of top school listings for entertainment business entrepreneurs like you, undaunted by the current post-graduation unemployment numbers.

You believe in the power of great storytelling and film's power to sway human emotion. You love celluloid more than even your cellular phone. To you, film is immortal, worth fighting for, worth working 16- to 20-hour days for.

However, there's one thing in your way: lack of knowledge. You're hungry to learn the industry before diving headfirst into it, and rightly so.

No worries. Despite the myriad film schools out there, I've hunted down the top five film schools in the U.S. for you. Enjoy.

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Everyone and their mom use IMDbPro, but there’s another in-depth resource that most aren’t sharing on a broad scale, touted by TheWrap as “the most effective way to build your career in the film business” – one even the Geek found by accident: TheGrid.