Volume 2 of the 21 st Century Film, TV, and Media School Book Project has a vital specific aim – to share current practice in the teaching of Directing. Its publication emerges as the traditional role of the film director is under ur- gent pressures from both disruptive institutional challenges and technological changes that drive hybrid narratives, newly complex production workflows, and the radicalization of expressive visual and audio forms. This second volume is again published by CILECT – The International Asso- ciation of Film and Television Schools (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision) – and comprises of chapters from prac- ticing lecturers working in CILECT’s over 180 audio-visual institutions – from China, UK, Singapore, Mexico, Finland, Australia, Israel, Portugal, South Afri- ca, Brazil, Czechia, and the USA. Their informed insights – borne of research and practice – provide a sugges- tive account of how film school pedagogues across the six continents share their passions and intellectual goals in the art and craft of directing with their new generation of students. It follows Volume 1 (2016) which considered the ‘challenges, clashes and changes’ in Film Education as a whole. THE FUTURE DIRECTING THE FUTURE DIRECTING Editors Maria Dora Mourão Stanislav Semerdjiev Cecília Mello Alan Taylor The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School: The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School: The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School: ISBN 978-619-7358-00-1