About BA (hons) Filmmaking in Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

This practice-based course gives you the creative freedom to develop your voice through the dynamic language of film. Our students specialise in original ideas and stories from unique perspectives, their work screening in international venues and winning awards at key industry events including the Royal Television Society and BFI Future Film Festival awards. If you have a passion and curiosity for the medium of film and want to make, create and innovate, this course will help you expand and develop your creativity, criticality and professionalism as a skilled, resourceful and ambitious filmmaker.

Features and Benefits

Tutors

• Teaching staff are practising industry professionals making feature films for cinema release, artist films for international art galleries, and running their own production companies.

Network

• We host regular programmes of film screenings, talks and masterclasses from film professionals. Last year these included Academy Award-winning editor/sound designer Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient), cinematographer/camera op Rachel Clark  (Fantastic Beasts, American Honey), feature director Deborah Haywood (Pincushion), artist-filmmaker Andrew Kotting (Gallivant, Lek and the Dogs) and photographer Martin Parr. 

Facilities

• Students work with high-end equipment from our purpose-built kit store and from our industry-standard edit suites all within the bustling School of Art.

External Opportunities

• You will have the opportunity to undertake an assessed work placement as part of your second-year study.  We host and support a number of externally-facing opportunities each year, allowing students to hone their skills in a professional environment and expand their networks. We have a partnership with Manchester’s leading Art House Cinema HOME where third-year students have been invited to programme their own film festival for a public audience each year.

Showcase

• We know the importance of showing work to a public audience, and have several external facing showcases throughout the three years. Previously these have included BAFTA-recognised Aesthetica Film Festival, Unit X showcases across the city of Manchester and the School of Art Degree Show.

International Visits

• Each year students have the opportunity to attend an International Film Festival.  In recent years we have attended Berlin International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam. You can also study for part of your degree abroad at one of the University exchange programme’s 150 partner institutions

Career prospects

Our graduates are industry recognised for their creative ingenuity, problem-solving skills and ability to see the world differently; many go on to be industry leaders in their own right. 

Recent graduates have gone on to be founders of independent production companies and editing companies, and successful freelance practitioners specialising as directors, editors, cinematographers, sound designers, producers, scriptwriters, production designers, visual artists and documentary filmmakers at film and media companies including Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, Marvel Studios, Paramount Pictures, ITV, BBC, Netflix, Heyday Films, British Council Film, Channel 4, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Walt Disney Studios,  Equinox TV, Mob Films, The Gate, Vice, Media Dog, Calumet, 24-7 Drama.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Higher Secondary School Certificate awarded on completion of Standard XII with good grade.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS     :   6.0, with no component below 5.5
• TOEFL   :   Overall 79,  With no individual test score below:Listening: 17,Reading: 18,Speaking: 20,Writing : 17
• PTE        :   53, with no less than 51 in any section

Manchester Metropolitan University Highlights

Manchester Metropolitan University Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

• The estimated cost of attendance while studying in the UK depends on several factors like the program applied for, tuition fees, books and supplies, housing, dining, transportation etc.
• Estimated Tuition Fees for 2020-2021 academic session at Manchester Metropolitan University are:

• Tuition Fees for some courses can vary depending upon any additional cost such as field trips or expense of equipment.
• Tuition Fees for postgraduate research courses (Ph.D., MPhil, MRes) are categorized into 5 Tuition bands,
• Students can expect an average cost of living ranging from 7,500 - 8,500 EUR per year, based on the minimum expenses.