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.
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 will prepare you to be a complete filmmaker.
This is an intensive, three-year studio-academic experience in the writing of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
