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Top 25 Film schools based in France
RevenueBase identified 150 film schools headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 4,723 professional contacts across them, including 1,109 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers film schools headquartered in France, 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.
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 based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LA PASSION D’ENSEIGNER DES METIERS PASSIONNANTS Communication, audiovisuel, cinéma d’animation : pour enseigner ces métiers passionnants, il faut être porté soi-même par une…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ecole des médias et du numérique, INA campus forme chaque année plus de 300 étudiants et professionnels aux métiers de la production, de l’écriture et la réalisation, de l’image…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “La Fémis is a prominent French national film school under the governance of the Ministry of Culture and financed by CNC, the French national film council.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The National Film (Cinematography), Photography & Sound Engineering School: dedicated to providing pre-professional training for the audiovisual industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A travers une pédagogie axée sur la pratique et le mode projet, l'École W forme ses étudiant·es à la création de contenus dans les métiers du journalisme, de la communication, de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1973, ÉSEC (School of Film and Audiovisual) is an international private educational institution offering training in the fields of cinema and television.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Résolument ancré dans la modernité, le CLCF forme artistiquement, techniquement et humainement les concepteurs du cinéma et de la fiction de demain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “To ensure diversity, we accept 35 students per year – half female, half male – into 5 tracks: screenwriting, production, photography, audio, and editing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SAE Institute : Leader mondial de l’éducation aux médias depuis 1976 Avec plus de 45 ans d'expertise, SAE Institute s’est imposée comme un acteur incontournable de la formation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Située à Marseille, les Ateliers de l’Image et du Son est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur, spécialisée dans les métiers de l’Audiovisuel, du Son et du Jeu d'acteur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nous sommes un campus dédié aux métiers de l'audiovisuel et du cinéma.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creative Seeds est une école formant aux métiers du cinéma d'animation, des effets spéciaux et du jeu vidéo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ouverte à toutes et à tous, la Maison du Film accompagne la nouvelle création cinématographique en proposant des aides, des conseils, des ressources et des formations innovantes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’école Nouvelles Écritures a été créée en mai 2021 et est présidée par Sophie Mougin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our equipment is constantly updated in order to offer a high quality of technicality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La révolution numérique a profondément remodelé les métiers du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel, mettant en lumière la nécessité de réformer les formations existantes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LE SOCLE est un organisme de formation dédié à l’acquisition de savoir-faire et au développement des compétences dans le secteur des productions audiovisuelles, cinématographique…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The first school entirely dedicated to series!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Génération 7e Art - Le festival national des jeunes cinéastes - revient du 11 au 14 novembre 2026 pour sa 6ème édition, à l'Institut Lumière de Lyon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Académie Franco-Anglophone des Arts Audiovisuels et du Cinéma est née d’une volonté simple : Favoriser le développement professionnel et améliorer les qualifications des…” 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 based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 150 companies.
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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France 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. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,109 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.
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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 based in France?
RevenueBase identified 150 film schools headquartered in France 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?
E-Artsup, L École DE LA Passion Créative, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most film schools?
Paris leads with 41 headquartered companies, followed by Lille (5) and Lyon (5).
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 1,109 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 150 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.