Undergraduate
Graduate
- M.F.A. Motion Picture Production
- M.F.A. Motion Picture Producing
- M.F.A. Screenwriting
- M.A. Film Studies
Program Overview
The Motion Picture program offers its students a complete curricular experience in critical understanding and effective creation of contemporary moving image media. Its innovative curriculum embraces the creative process from development and writing through production and post production to all forms of media exhibition, and compliments it with a strong grounding in film criticism, aesthetics of the moving image, and international history of cinema.
Facilities in the Motion Picture Program include the Bill Cosford Cinema, a state-of-the-art theater that exhibits first-run alternative, foreign and classic films; a complete array of conventional film and digital cameras and related grip and electric equipment; a soundstage; all digital postproduction image and sound facilities; and digital animation.
The Canes Film Festival of UM undergraduate and graduate films is held every year on campus with a professional showcase screening in Los Angeles. The School also possesses one of the nation's largest privately held collections of 35mm and 70mm films dating from the beginning of Motion Pictures to the present with over 2000 titles.
Students are encouraged to participate in supervised internships, and in the special programs the Program offers, such as the Summer Film Program in Prague, Czech Republic and the annual trip to Los Angeles which offers an opportunity to interact with leading film and television professionals.