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Jesus Pimp is right. There is a ton of networking that goes on in film school. In fact, a good friend of mine when to Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) and there are a ton of people in the Canadian industry that when through that program. He has used it to great advantage. His production company has made a couple of short films, a limited series for the Comedy Network and his first feature film will be released theatrically this year.
I too am in the film and television industry. I took film studies (film studies is to film making what studying English Lit is to writing). While at University I worked at the campus radio station where I produced a weekly film show. Through that gig, I was offered a job in publicity for a film releasing company. I used that job to network my ass off and a couple of years later moved to a position with an international distribution company.
I started out there doing all the contracts and tape traffic but quickly moved up in to sales. I am now the head of sales and acquisitions (it was a small company and it grew beneath me).
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