Film School Consortium

Our mission is to nurture creative, bold, and meaningful work by new generations of filmmakers and scholars, based on a curriculum enlivened by, and relevant to, the continuous changes in our field.

Housed in the largest Fine Arts teaching facility in Canada, we are the most comprehensive university-based film program in the country, with a curriculum rooted in the interrelationship of theory and practice.

We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in three areas. In Production, students work with state-of-the art facilities to make films and develop specialized skills in directing, cinematography, editing, sound, and production management. In Cinema and Media Studies, students study cinema and media through a variety of historical, critical and theoretical perspectives. In Screenwriting, students explore the craft of moving-image storytelling. Our studio courses nurture films and screenplays that are committed to richness of content, creative vitality and mastery of technique. Our studies courses offer a challenging critical and interdisciplinary perception of the world we live in through its cinema. All three areas benefit from the engagement with one another that is the unique strength of our department.

Our teaching faculty is composed of a diverse group of filmmakers and scholars who are actively engaged in research and production, well-known in their fields. The department houses several research centres with international profiles, and includes two Canada Research Chairs. The range of our alumni’s accomplishments reflects our determination to offer our students more than just career training; our programs are intended to serve as doorways to a life of reflective and productive engagement with a world increasingly defined by moving pictures. We take considerable care to recruit, admit and advance through our programs highly motivated students who want an extraordinary university education.