We can always use another Spike Lee. Brooklyn is stocking up on movie theaters, but what if you don’t just want to watch the movie, you want to make those ghostly haunting images yourself? Tired of those hotshot jerks from Hollywood grabbing all the celluloid glory, the city is supporting the opening of the Brooklyn College Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios, in the Navy Yard. Brooklyn College says that the school is set to welcome its first class in 2014 and when everything is fully up and running, it will be able to accomodate 400 students enrolled annually. As a bonus, the school will be brokester-friendly and will cost less than half of most of the graduate film programs in the country. And it’s not like low cost will mean bad education: Brooklyn is a hotbed for filming (sometimes to the dismay of residents) and the Navy Yard campus will be the… Read More
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