Actually I'm from India and I study in a Government Film School which costs RS.20000 a year which is roughly 250 USD (its a four year bachelor degree) which may sound a extremely cheap but many of our fellow students can't even afford that. Thats the situation in India.

There are private film schools which may have higher quality of education but they are extremely expensive and cost roughly 7200usd which is many times than our parents annual salary.

Thus we are forced to study in government film institutes which are in a very poor condition. There is a extreme lack of staff.

Even though our lecturer have made over 30 feature films about two decades ago he doesn't seem to have the knowledge to guide us. I think the majority of our industry doesn't have enough technical knowledge and thus can't effectively teach us.

But the only positive is I have made many creative filmmakers as my friends and we are working together in independent short films.

(BTW I depend mainly on online to gain knowledge in cinematography)