The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Social Documentary Film program teaches the artistic skills and techniques needed to tell compelling true stories that stimulate meaningful dialogue. SocDoc not only teaches the fundamentals of good storytelling, but guides students toward a career in the thriving documentary industry. The award-winning faculty is helmed by producer Maro Chermayeff […]
New York Film Academy Documentary Department students learn to make films by making films. Hands-on Conservatory and bicoastal MFA programs pair rigorous instruction with close mentoring by a distinguished faculty including Bob Eisenhardt (Free Solo), Claudia Raschke (RBG), and Randy Dottin (the Chicago TV franchise), who support both beginners and professionals from around the globe […]
Hunter’s MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts (IMA) offers advanced studies in nonfiction media making. The IMA Program educates multi-disciplinary, socially engaged media makers in a diverse range of skills across the media landscape. Working with faculty from film, video, emerging media, and journalism backgrounds, students learn to conceptualize, create, and distribute innovative, politically and […]
The City University of New York has exceptional campuses renowned for preparing students to become professionals in the motion picture industry. Its rich and diverse programs offer the invaluable experience of hands-on learning and peer collaboration, training students in all aspects of the disciplines of the moving image, from the aesthetic to the technical. (TOTAL […]
Students in the one-year Documentary Specialization program at Columbia learn to write, film, and narrate the stories of our time, from deadline reporting to profile writing and audio stories. Program alumni have been awarded the Student Academy Award and BAFTA Student Award, published their work online, sold their films to broadcasters and to Netflix, and […]
The News and Documentary program at NYU Journalism prepares students to report and produce short- and long-form video journalism for traditional and non-traditional media. From the first class, students are on the streets reporting, shooting, and editing. The program’s goal is to have students skilled in both form and content, effectively using all aspects of […]
The New School Documentary Media Studies program provides an opportunity to study documentary filmmaking—production and theory—in a small, tightly focused program. The program culminates in a student documentary festival, Truth Be Told, at the end of each school year, at which certificate students’ films are publicly screened and discussed by the filmmakers and faculty. Certificate […]
The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Social Documentary Film program teaches the artistic skills and techniques needed to tell compelling true stories that stimulate meaningful dialogue. SocDoc not only teaches the fundamentals of good storytelling, but guides students toward a career in the thriving documentary industry. The award-winning faculty is helmed by producer Maro Chermayeff […]
NYU’s NewsDoc program prepares students to report and produce for traditional and nontraditional media. Emphasizing not only the story, but the storytelling, the program’s goal is for students to be skilled in both form and content, able tell a story by effectively using all aspects of the medium. The program culminates with each student producing, […]
New York Film Academy Documentary Department students learn to make films by making films. Hands-on, intensive MFA and one-year Conservatory programs pair rigorous instruction with close mentoring by a world class faculty to support students from around the world as they create their own documentary films. Alumni have received an Emmy® Award, multiple Academy Award®- […]