James Franco to Start Teaching How to Direct Short Films

Actor James Franco is planning to teach third-year course participants at the Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) everything he knows about directing.

Limited to 12 students, the course will teach them how to convert poetry into films. Franco is already instructing a course on himself at Columbia College Hollywood.

"He´s here to teach because he really knows something about directing that he can share with our students," John Toniry of the NYU said.