EXCLUSIVE: The American Film Institute has appointed prolific film producer Richard Gladstein as Dean of the AFI Conservatory. He will take over for Jan Schuette, who will depart June 30. Gladstein’s hands on knowledge of film production should nicely fit AFI’s hands on approach to graduate film education, where…

The American Film Institute said today that Jan Schuette will depart as dean of the AFI Conservatory at the end of the academic year after three years in the job. AFI said Schuette he intends to continue his work in academia and resume his professional work as a filmmaker and producer. The move comes after a majority…

The American Film Institute has tabled Friday’s planned screening of The Birth of a Nation, which was to be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker and star Nate Parker. The move comes as distributor Fox Searchlight deals with potential fallout from an old rape charge against Parker, of which he was acquitted in 2001. AFI…

Claiming that "the AFI Conservatory is on the brink of unraveling," a majority of the famed film school's faculty has called for the firing of its dean. The move comes a day after Deadline reported that a wave of faculty firings and resignations had rocked the school as it began a new term Tuesday. The union…

A wave of faculty firings and resignations has thrown the AFI Conservatory into turmoil as the famed Los Angeles-based film school begins a new term today. A longtime senior lecturer who resigned last week compared the administration of Jan Schuette, the film school's dean since June 2014, to a "dictatorial South…