Filmmaking Concentration | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Filmmaking Concentration

Bring Your
Vision to Life

MCAD’s Filmmaking concentration is versatile, experiential, and prepares students for a variety of fields. Courses cover all elements of cinematic production, including writing, directing, acting, producing, shooting, sound mixing, and editing. Cutting-edge film and digital technologies allow you to experiment, collaborate, and express yourself as you work across genres, crafting narrative, documentary, and experimental projects. Using traditional motion-picture language as well as contemporary innovations, students develop formally inventive films and videos to bring a personal vision to life.

Student adjusting a film set

Hear about the student experience

As a Media Arts major with a Filmmaking concentration, you will:

  • Investigate Filmmaking in relationship to interdisciplinary media practices.
  • Develop creative and technical skills in filmmaking, videography, screenwriting, visual effects, and sound.
  • Pursue independent film and video projects informed by personal vision. Learn a range of professional crew positions.
  • Acquire the skills and knowledge for an independent creative practice and a professional career in filmmaking.
  • Obtain a broad historical and critical understanding of cinema history.
  • Gain new tools of self-expression in media production while you navigate complex questions of identity.
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Class Highlights

  • Narrative Filmmaking
  • Documentary
  • Experimental Filmmaking
  • Editing & Post-Production
  • Sound
Degree Information

After MCAD

There are many paths to explore with a degree in Filmmaking. Potential careers include:

  • Cinematographer
  • Documentary Filmmaker
  • Film Editor
  • Sound Designer
Additional Careers

“While I was heavily interested in graphic design and sculpture, filmmaking was the major that satisfied my creative soul, thirst for technological innovation, and entrepreneurial drive.” –Zachary Nelson ’12, Cofounder/CEO of MotoCrane, LLC

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The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) acknowledges it is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. This is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, who were forcibly exiled from the land because of aggressive and persistent settler colonialism. We recognize that this place has a complex and layered history. As a community dedicated to creativity, MCAD is committed to ongoing efforts to support and advocate for American Indian Nations and peoples.