Film Production

MFA Film Production

  • Communication, Media and Film offers a a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production program.
  • Our MFA program is committed to the development of each candidate’s creative practice in film. Graduate students take a practice-based research approach to the conceptualization, development, production, and post-production of a short thesis film.
  • MFA candidates pursue diverse aesthetic, thematic, and technical approaches, creating original work across fiction, documentary, and experimental film. Their studies are supported by a collegial environment and by faculty and staff with broad research interests and professional expertise.
  • Our faculty have established national and international reputations, with expertise in fiction, experimental, and documentary film from expository and cinéma-vérité approaches to poetic and expanded ‘i-doc’ models. 
  • We encourage applications from filmmakers working in a wide variety of contemporary practices.

Program Specific Admission Requirements

Deadline for Fall: January 15


Minimum TOEFL: IBT- 100


Minimum IELTS: 7.0


Minimum Pearson: 68

Additional Requirements

Applicants must submit a portfolio and a clear statement of interest.


Portfolio Checklist


Three Referee Assessments


General admission requirements for all Graduate Programs

Scholarships and Funding


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