It’s passion. Not a pastime. FADE IN: INT. Ranked among the You’ll learn from The Hollywood Reporter SCHOOL OF UNCSA best programs in the professional faculty ranks UNCSA country, UNCSA’s as well as acclaimed #14 on its list of top undergraduate film SCHOOL OF schools in the country. School of Filmmaking guest artists. You’ll tell FILMMAKING FILMMAKING is one of the most captivating cinematic hands-on, real-world stories – lots of them. UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE UNCSA Filmmaking films schools anywhere. students on set — From day one, you’ll reviewing shot lists, work on productions, Animation setting lights, gaining exposure to placing microphones, every aspect of Cinematography checking playback... the craft. Creative Producing Directing Film Music Composition Picture Editing & Sound Design Producing Production Design & Visual Effects Screenwriting A CONSERVATORY A FIRST-YEAR A PASSIONATE EDUCATING THE EXPERIENCE IMMERSION PURSUIT WHOLE ARTIST Ours is an intensive During your first year, After learning the Our comprehensive conservatory you’ll take courses fundamentals, you’ll liberal arts college education in film in every facet of choose a concentration curriculum provides production and new making movies. You’ll – whether directing, a broad education, media. With rigorous immediately work on producing, editing, producing well-rounded courses coupled with sets and experience animation or other. artists who think practical experience, firsthand the full arc From that point, you’ll critically, creatively you’ll develop skills of filmmaking. You’ll pursue an advanced and collaboratively. in all aspects of come to understand curriculum, focused on the cinematic arts. the many different roles the intricacies of your Your training will be that contribute to the craft as you collaborate professional-level. process, and discover with artists in the other Your focus will be a where your strengths concentrations. professional career. and interests lie. “I consistently hear from industry professionals that our graduates are both extremely well-prepared and keen to advance their skills. We’re developing our innovative curriculum in tandem with emerging technologies and our students are eager to pursue new frontiers.” Susan Ruskin – Dean, School of Filmmaking A CAMPUS A COMMUNITY ARTISTIC CULTURE UNLIKE OF ARTISTS COLLABORATION ANY IN THE COUNTRY The University of Working in an North Carolina interdisciplinary School of the Arts environment of is composed of five dancers, actors, conservatories – musicians, designers Filmmaking, Design and technicians, you’ll & Production, Dance, learn to effectively Drama, and Music. collaborate as a As a result, you’ll find professional – a critical artistic passion and skill you’ll carry into inspiration all around your career. you. You will learn by doing. And every day, your fellow artists will help bring out your very best. “Being able to make connections and collaborate is a big part of being a producer. At UNCSA, I get the chance to work with artists from drama, design & production, music, and dance. I’m like a kid in a candy store!” Clarielle Marsh – Student, Creative Producing The Wrap ranks UNCSA #10 for filmmaking programs in the United States. YOU WILL Many film schools NOW SHOWING ON BUDGET WORLD-CLASS MAKE FILMS. wait until the second FACILITIES NO WAITING or third year before Student films are UNCSA is a public giving students access REQUIRED. routinely submitted institution and, Our “Studio Village” to equipment. At to film festivals and unlike other film was built to resemble UNCSA, you’ll direct awards competitions. schools, we pay for and function like a and shoot as many Third- and fourth- all our students’ films. studio “back lot” – as six digital film year student films, When considering featuring professional- projects during your approximately 12-15 the high costs of caliber production, first two years. Once minutes each, are making films, post-production and in your concentration, screened for the UNCSA’s financial exhibition facilities, you’ll collaborate public each May. support provides a including sound stages with classmates on significant advantage and a film recording/ ambitious shorts shot to our students. scoring stage. on the same digital cameras used in Our ACE Exhibition the profession. Complex houses three motion picture theatres, exhibiting all formats of film and video. Our innovative New Media building, the hub for animation and production design, features cutting-edge shops, studios and labs using the most advanced technology and equipment. IMMERSIVE ENTERTAINMENT Pursuing new technologies in storytelling, the School of Filmmaking is expanding its curriculum to include courses in virtual and augmented reality. Our program was recently selected by Oculus, a leading VR technology company, to receive state-of-the art equipment, guest lectures from experts, and opportunities for students to engage with industry pioneers in this emerging field. UNCSA has also announced the establishment of UNCSA is an official partner the Institute for Performance Innovation, which will of the Sundance Institute. include the creation of a new Filmmaking graduate concentration in gaming and virtual reality. VISITING ARTISTS Acclaimed artists from the worlds of film and television often visit our campus to teach and advise our students. A small sampling of recent guest artists includes: BENITA ALLEN VICKY JENSON (Assistant Director/Producer) (Director) The Ring, Stuart Little, The Smurfs Shrek, Shark Tale, Family Tree JACQUIE BARNBROOK GENE PAGE (Producer/Visual Effects Producer) (Stills Photographer) The Martian VR Experience, Monster, The Walking Dead (AMC), The Jungle Book, The Hunger Games Jeepers Creepers JORDAN BESWICK JOHN RATZENBERGER (Casting Director) (Actor/Director) Signs, Dead Man Walking, Cheers (NBC), Toy Story, Cabin Fever Cars, WALL-E OLA BJÖRLING CELIA ROWLSON-HALL (Global Director of Virtual (Actress/Director/Choreographer) Reality Marketing, MediaMonks) Ma, Girls (HBO) SHAWN HARWELL SHARON SEYMOUR (Writer) (Production Designer) The Campaign, Reality Bites, Gone Baby Gone, Argo Eastbound & Down (HBO), Red Oaks (Amazon Studios) ALEC SOKOLOW (Writer/Producer/Director) THE TALENT OUR EXECUTIVE AN EXPERIENCED ALAN HEIM Toy Story, Cheaper by the Dozen, BEHIND THE PRODUCER FACULTY (Editor/Producer) Garfield All That Jazz (Academy Award TALENT Our conservatory’s Our full-time faculty Winner), Network, American JOEL SURNOW Dean is Susan Ruskin, are accomplished History X, The Notebook (Writer/Producer) a producer and film professionals, 24 (FOX), La Femme executive who began having worked on AMY HOLDEN JONES Nikita (USA Network), her film career in major motion pictures, (Writer/Producer/Director) The Kennedys (REELZChannel) development for television shows and Mystic Pizza, Indecent Proposal, George Lucas’ productions from Beethoven, Black Box (ABC), LucasFilm, became Hollywood to New The Slumber Party Massacre head of development York and beyond. for Robert Stigwood Each day, these experts IAN HUNTER at RSO, and later bring their real-world (Visual Effects) served as President perspectives to our Interstellar (Academy “Faculty are very well-respected, with incredible connections of Production for classrooms, labs and Award Winner), Inception, in the film industry. They continually leverage networking Pal-Mel Productions. studios, mentoring The Dark Knight She leads a world- students to find opportunities for students and alumni to help us land class faculty, each with their unique artistic impressive credentials voice and fulfill great jobs and advance our careers.” of their own. their potential. Kahei Shum – Student, Production Design CUT TO: SUCCESS ARRIVING LAX OUR ALUMNI INCLUDE: Throughout their At the end of your senior year, ZENE BAKER DAVID GORDON GREEN NATHAN KROCHMAL time at UNCSA, our you’ll travel to Los Angeles for (Editor) (Writer/Director/Producer) (Set/Production Designer) student filmmakers a week of in-depth exposure All the Real Girls, Neighbors, 50/50, Your Highness, The Sitter, Manglehorn, Hidden Figures, Dirty Grandpa, Pitch Perfect 3, fully participate in to multiple facets of the This Is the End Pineapple Express, Prince Avalanche, Joe Confirmation (HBO) generative filmmaking: industry, culminating in a creating, directing, screening of your film for studio TRAVIS BEACHAM REBECCA GREEN DANNY MCBRIDE designing, composing, executives, agents, managers, (Writer) (Producer) (Writer/Producer/Actor) and producing wholly and successful School of Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans Employee of the Month, It Follows, Pineapple Express, Vice Principals (HBO), original content. Highly Filmmaking alumni. You’ll have I’ll See You in My Dreams Eastbound and Down (HBO) skilled and uniquely the opportunity to network, WILL FILES experienced, they are get noticed, and land that (Sound Designer) BRETT HALEY JEFF NICHOLS ready to hit the ground first job. Star Trek Into Darkness, (Director/Writer) (Writer/Director/Producer) running and thrive as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The New Year, I’ll See You in My Dreams Loving, Mud, Midnight Special, Take Shelter professionals. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, The Smurfs VERA HERBERT TIM ORR (Writer) (Cinematographer) CHRISTOF GEBERT This is Us (NBC), Awkward (MTV), Joe, Manglehorn, Z for Zachariah, (Sound Mixer/Editor) Blink (CBS), Don’t Make Me Go Our Brand Is Crisis, Cymbeline, George Washington, Pineapple Express, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Adventureland KEVIN HICKMAN (Editor) ADAM STONE ROB GIVENS Collateral, Captain Phillips, (Cinematographer)