About
For students who can demonstrate communicative and artistic achievement to BA level, the MFA offers students the opportunity to develop non-fiction filmmaking as a creative research practice – making films which interrogate and explore the contemporary world. Drawing on broad based anthropological thought about the social and cultural world, we produce filmmakers who are imaginative, risk-taking and push boundaries in the field.
In the first year, students will create three short films. In the second year, students will produce a graduation film project exploring a subject of their choice, supervised by an industry mentor.
Highlights
- Find your own voice in an artistic form where ‘anything goes.’
- Learn to handle cameras and sound recording equipment to produce non-fiction image and sound, and master the technical skills to use professional editing programmes and post production processes.
- Experiment with different forms of moving image and learn to take risks.
- Benefit from the highest quality supervision.
Location
London, Statford (UCL East)
Graduate film awards and nominations
- The Dream (Lucia de la Torre, 2021) - Selected: Global Docs Short Forum, Global Docs Short Forum 2022 & Longlist: Best Student Film, One World Media Awards 2022
- You Girls Need to Grow Up! (Sohee Kim, 2021) - Nominee: Best Student Documentary, Grierson Awards 2021
- Beyond Illusion and Doubt (Gwenlilian Thurstan, 2019) - Nominee: Best Student Documentary, Grierson Awards 2020
Please include a link to your portfolio in your application (e.g. in the personal statement).
I'm passionate about studying documentary as a research-based practice because it combines my love for videography and creative storytelling with politics, activism, and mutual understanding for those who share our world.
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