Swinburne Film and Television School

Swinburne Film and Television School was a film school that was part of Swinburne Technical College from 1966 until 1991. The college offered the first tertiary course in filmmaking in Australia, and was founded and led for many years by filmmaker Brian Clark Robinson. In 1991, owing to funding difficulties, management of the school was handed over to the Victorian College of the Arts, becoming the VCA Film and Television School (a new entity). The many notable alumni of Swinburne Film and Television School include directors Gillian Armstrong, Garth Davis, Richard Lowenstein, and Sarah Watt, and cartoonist Michael Leunig.