The Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts in Tallahassee is well-respected for graduate studies in film production and it offers an MFA in production as well as an MFA in writing for the screen. The university is equipped with sound stages, mixing theaters and production technology. According to its website, its graduates have won hundreds of awards including prestigious ones at the "Cannes Film Festival, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Coca-Cola Collegiate Competition and the Pioneer Electronics Collegiate Competition."
The Tisch School of Film at New York University offers graduate programs in New York and Singapore. It offers an MFA in film-making, an MBA/MFA in producing, a program in animation and digital arts and an international MFA program at the Tisch Asia campus, and what its website describes as an "intensive three-year conservatory that trains students in the art of cinematic storytelling." The overall program helps students to develop a narrative voice that teaches participants how to write scripts, shoot film, direct and produce cinema. All other aspects of making fiction and documentary films, including the various elements of sound, are also covered in a hands-on fashion.
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The New York Film Academy offers several MFA options at its Los Angeles Campus at Universal Studios. Programs include specific degrees in film-making, acting for film and producing. Also available are screenwriting, photography, documentary production and cinematography tracks. According to its website, the school adapts the "best ideas and elements from the leading degree programs and it has designed intensive and accelerated alternatives that provide a thorough grounding in the craft." The school welcomes students from the United States and all other countries as well.
The University of Central Florida in Orlando offers a film MFA, and the program includes a study in digital cinema that encourages entrepreneurs to use current technologies in creative ways. This course of study, according to the website is " designed to educate the next generation of filmmakers as artists, entrepreneurs, and educators who use digital technologies to create content." Besides taking the requited 60 hours of graduate credits, each student is required to present a thesis project in film. In addition, the school's location, near the Disney properties and Universal Studio, is a desirable location for film studies.