Minimum Education and Experience
Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking, or, Ph.D. in Communication, Media Studies, or Communication and Culture
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Strong communications skills and interpersonal skills
Overview
Housed in one of the leading public research universities on the East Coast, the Rutgers Filmmaking Center at Mason Gross School of the Arts offers an undergraduate BFA program that balances practice, theory, and history of cinema. Named by The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, and Variety as one of the top film programs in the country, the program trains students in all aspects of film production, including research, interdisciplinary collaboration, scriptwriting, cinematography, field production, directing, editing, and post-production. The curriculum exposes students to a broad range of cinematic traditions and concepts and approaches, with the aim of creating informed and engaged filmmakers who integrate theory with practice to realize their own unique artistic visions in both narrative and non-narrative modes of filmmaking. Previous students have been accepted to the nation’s top graduate film schools, and the program’s faculty have won numerous awards, including the Academy Award and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars with academic programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art & design, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its 1200 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. The school is housed within Rutgers–New Brunswick, a
premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore, and just over an hour to Philadelphia.
Additional information is available at the school website: https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu.
