The International Film School Sydney

The International Film School Sydney offers a unique experience in filmmaking: an intense, immersive education where Making Films and Developing a Profound and Sophisticated Understanding of Cinematic Creation are one and the same.  

We are avowedly the centre of cinematic excellence.

Our two-year Advanced Diploma delivers Australia’s most comprehensively-integrated and production-dynamic film school experience.

We aim for nothing less than to develop you as a motivated, distinctive cinematic artist and a profoundly competent filmic storyteller with a unique and personal creative perspective.

In your two years at IFSS you will write, direct and produce more than six fully-funded, full-scale, short films.

Your films. Your way. Unleashing your specific excellence.

Films that don't just look great, but move people, touch people, entertain, change the way that people think.  Heart-breaking, mind-blowing, side-splitting, lyrical genius is the bar we set our students.

And we provide the creative expertise to achieve that - a learning journey to challenge, provoke, inspire and develop your own specific creative qualities. A platform where creative vision is built on comprehensive technical skills. An inspiring environment where story, image, vision, drama, character and audience engagement are the foundation of cinematic style and artistic form.


We develop you as a dynamic and self-sufficient filmmaker, able to produce and generate industry conscious work built on creative pragmatism and efficient flexibility, elevated by a highly developed aesthetic sensibility.

Your tutors are not just working professionals and experts in their field, but also passionate and inspiring teachers committed to changing the face of 21st century cinema with you.

From artistic daring to creative problem solving; from career structure and business planning to the development of pitch-ready feature-length screenplays. At IFSS you will be nothing less than Creatively Ambitious, Cinematically Adept, Career Focused, Consummately Practical.  The home of daring cinema.

The International Film School Sydney (IFSS) is now part of the ITC Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The University of Wollongong, one of the world’s top 200 universities*.

This relationship cements IFSS’s position as Australia’s premiere independent film school, and drives IFSS forward into an expansive future with the support of ITC.

There are no students at the International Film School Sydney, just dynamically ambitious Filmmakers getting ready to Shoot, Cut and Screen for the world.
We don't just teach skills, we develop unique distinctive, creative individuals capable of creating the future of cinema.

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