Film Production Suites

Our Film program goes beyond aesthetics, techniques, and processes, so you’ll develop a personal filmmaking style that’s inventive and expressive.

📍1111 8th St., lower level

Media Gallery

A student and faculty member smile while filming a panning shot.
Two student-cinematographers film an actor on stage in dramatic blue lighting.
A student claps a slate in front of a DSLR camera, signifying the first take of a scene in a green-screen environment.
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🎥 About BFA Film

We think broadly about the medium of film, exploring forms like narrative, experimental, installation, media art, and documentary. You’ll learn how to make films independently and collaboratively, with solid production skills—writing, producing, filming, and editing—and foundations in media theory.

Make a thesis film

The grand finale is the Senior Projects course, where you’ll conceptualize, produce, and edit a final work shared at a public screening. Lamont Lamar’s (BFA Film 2020) thesis film, The Night It Rained, has been screened nationally and internationally, including at the 2021 LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival.

🎬 Facilities and resources

As a film student, you have access to a large production stage, audio suites, pre- and post-production suites, and a well-stocked media center. Our green screen cyclorama is a favorite for creating endless environments in post-production, and 360 cameras and VR headsets are available so you can explore storytelling in extended reality.

Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage

This black-box film-production studio provides film students and others with a blank canvas for cinematic creativity. The 2,100-square-foot space includes a permanent audio-visual system, a stage floor, a green-screen cyclorama with a lighting grid, and various production tools like C-stands, lighting kits, and paper backdrops.

Film Cage

From SD cards to lighting kits, get gear for film and video productions from the Film Cage. Current inventory includes DSLR cameras, audio recorders, sound equipment, tripods, lighting kits with scrims, softboxes, and gels, as well as LCD monitors, and grip equipment like sliders, handheld rigs, and gimbals.

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