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Jun 2023
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831. True to His Film School

PILAR ALESSANDRA
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Writer Bill True, Department Chair at the Scottsdale School of Film and Theater, talks about the specific factors that helped propel a community college in Arizona to Variety's list of "Top Film Schools in North America." 

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