John Tintori

NYU Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School of the Arts - Chair, Graduate Film Division

By JOSH MARKS

Helped develop NYU’s dual MBA/MFA degree program.

When Tintori joined NYU two years ago, he saw a unique opportunity to merge Hollywood and Wall Street by giving graduate film students academic training in both filmmaking and finance. Working with his counterpart at NYU’s Stern Business School, C. Samuel Craig, Tintori proposed a joint MBA/MFA degree program designed to mold a competitive new type of producer.

The intense three-year program launches this fall. Students spend their first year entirely at Stern, the second at Tisch and the third balancing courses from both schools.

At the end of their studies, graduates will boast both the hard skills of line producing and a firm business foundation, Tintori explains: “They will be in a good position to jump right into a studio or a network as an executive (or) to create their own production companies. Down the road, I think we’re going to look back at this and it’s really going to have a profound effect on the industry.”

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Paul Cohen

Florida State U. Film School - Executive director, Torchlight Program

By JOSH MARKS

Launched FSU’s groundbreaking Torchlight Program.

After 12 years away, longtime indie film exec Cohen returned to Tallahassee last fall to help film school dean Frank Patterson launch Torchlight, a for-profit distribution company within the school that teaches students the business side of filmmaking and gives them a chance to have their work seen by a larger audience.

The unique program encourages “vital and current” approaches, challenging students to use new media in creating, marketing and distributing their films so they can see a return on their investments. While Torchlight focuses on business considerations, FSU’s film school helps on the production side by giving student filmmakers the opportunity to shoot on Red One 4K digital cameras.

Two of Cohen’s former students, Jeff Marks and Adam Elend, recently launched the CBS Interactive program Moblogic.tv, an interactive online show covering news, politics and pop culture. “What they’re doing is creating a community of viewers and their contemporaries,” Cohen says. “This is all new territory — they have to create their own destiny.”

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