Students gain practical experience in organizing and programming events and conferences.
Learn to assemble collections for cinemas, festivals, and other institutions.
Analyze, interpret and write about film as a career.
Graduates are prepared to teach film studies at the secondary level.
Oversee film production including selecting the script; coordinating writing, directing, editing; and arranging financing.
Develop expertise in the history, theory, and criticism of motion pictures
Prepare for a wide range of professions, including teaching, publishing, librarianship, journalism and reviewing, curating, archiving and preservation, film production, academia and film festival and arts management
“ There’s so much freedom with what we can do here. We can do things traditionally or we can be innovative. Everyone’s so willing to work with us on how to best create a product that adds to film history and to film as a discipline. ”
UNCW’s MFA in Filmmaking is an immersive three-year terminal degree program that prepares students to be complete filmmakers.
An intensive, three-year studio-academic experience in the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Study the interactions among the major components of modern communication and the creation of meaning.
Learn about cultural materials' creation and use, the preservation and management of digital records, and how digital information systems interact.
