Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Film schools worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,813 film schools worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 29,105 professional contacts across them, including 5,402 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Los Angeles the largest hub.
This list covers film schools worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for film schools follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest film schools worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,370 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En la Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI formamos a creadores y artistas del futuro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The New York Film Academy is considered the best hands-on visual & performing arts college in the world and offers a range of programs, including Filmmaking, Acting for Film…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 594 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée en 2001 e-artsup, forme des créatifs et des designers dans les domaines de la communication visuelle, de la direction artistique, du motion design, du cinéma d’animation et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 509 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESCOLA ZION INCOMPARÁVEL Além da paixão que você irá encontrar nesse lugar de novos sonhos, uma surpreendente estrutura com: computadores de alta performance, monitores ultrawide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mediacollege Amsterdam (Ma), het voormalig Grafisch Lyceum Amsterdam, is een vakschool voor de media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le groupe ESRA est le plus important groupe privé de formation aux métiers du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Educating the best creative talent to the highest professional standard for tomorrow's screen industries.The NFTS is the only film school in the UK which boasts its own film and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Politeknik Negeri Media Kreatif is a Vocational school whom concern in Creative Media area such as Graphic Desain, Printing, Publishing, Multimedia, Animation, Photography, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 279 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Toronto Film School, ranked as a top film school by the QS World University Rankings, offers a fast-paced, hands-on and highly collaborative learning environment, designed to arm…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Buscando, formando y promocionando talento desde 1994.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AFDA is one of the leading outcomes-based film schools in the world and is listed by the Council on Higher Education as one of the top six private universities in South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “isão fundadora ambicionou uma escola onde o saber fazer e a criação acontecessem, que se orientasse para o aluno e para o seu futuro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EICAR The International Film and Television School - Paris was founded in 1972 and has since been the first school in Europe offering Bachelors, Masters and One Year…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Welcome to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where we invite you to explore and expand the power and potential of film, television and new media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A leading film, television and online media school with campuses in London, Berlin, and Leeds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF ist ein lebendiger Ort der freien Forschung, Lehre und Kunst.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centro de formación académica, cuya finalidad es la preparación técnica y humanística de los futuros profesionales del cine y del sector audiovisual.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maestro de las materias de producción de cortometraje y producción de documental y especialista en semiotica y preproducciòn audiovisual.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ISEC es una Institución Educativa Privada orientada a la formación en carreras vinculadas a la Comunicación Audiovisual, las Artes Escénicas, la Fotografía, el Periodismo, el…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Groupe EDH is a French higher education group, and has been a leader in the fields of communication, artistic and cultural management, film, 3D film animation, journalism, graphic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Its primary mission is to provide the highest academic and technological level in the areas of film, video, visual arts, visual communication and also teacher training in each of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg – as one of the most-renowned film schools in Europe – offers practical education in film, television and new media to over 500 students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Recognized as one of the top ten film schools in the world and ranked #4 by The Hollywood Reporter among American film schools, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “F.I.R.S.T.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: film schools. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names film schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of film schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name film schools. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Film schools worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among film schools, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for film schools are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “film schools”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names film schools), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among film schools, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,402 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Film schools by location
10 lists · largest firstEvery Film schools list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Film schools based in the United States310
- Film schools based in India236
- Film schools based in France150
- Film schools based in Spain89
- Film schools based in Italy82
- Film schools based in the United Kingdom77
- Film schools based in Germany49
- Film schools based in Brazil46
- Film schools based in Canada42
- Film schools based in Mexico28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names film schools, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many film schools are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,813 film schools worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Escuela TAI, headquartered in Madrid, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most film schools?
The United States leads with 310 companies, followed by India (236) and France (150). Every film schools list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most film schools?
Los Angeles leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by London (42) and Paris (41).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,402 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,813 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.