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I never got the degree. I had only a few exams left, but never completed them. I didn't like their methods, and you had no perspectives once you got the degree anyway. In Italy, if you don't get hooked to the "right" people and you don't go to specialistic schools that are very elite you're out of the world of arts, especially cinema and TV, which is what I studied for. Seems banal, but it is not. Here it's not like in more advanced countries for this kind of things, like the UK or the US. even Mexico from what I know has better situation. You really don't have hope to work for anything involving cinema just because of your merits. You have to have "something else". I don't know if you get what I mean. Techs are the same, it's not only the directing, acting or screenwriting. It's still a world where mainly sons and relatives of people entered in the field ages ago work, and they leave the spot for their friends and relatives once they abandon their place. It's still feudal. You can't be indipendent here, laws don't allow that. You also can't hope to be noticed because you do something of value. My professors at uni were the first to be unable to complete their own projects because of these reasons, and because they lacked funding, etc. They were forced to choose as a careeer teaching and writing books and essays on the techical and historical side of the subject because of that, you know. Isn's that ridiculously discouranging? So I said that wasn't for me, not as it is intended here.
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