Course General Description

Study in New York City, a world capital of film and media. This program blends the hands-on practical skills of filmmaking with film history, theory, and criticism, providing a broad perspective on the moving image in all its aspects. Students explore the city's rich cultural and educational resources, including film series, festivals, museums, and art-house theaters. You'll study film genres, major directors, avant-garde film, and world cinema, from China, Italy, Latin America, and Russia and the Soviet Union. This interdisciplinary program lets you take your studies further with courses in storyboarding, character development, costume, fandom in the internet age, and gaming. New York's array of studios, television networks, and agencies provides a variety of internship opportunities. You'll begin making films right from the start, mastering film and video production and developing visual storytelling skills for fiction and documentary films. For your final project, you will make a film, to be screened at an FIT film festival. You'll graduate prepared for careers in a wide range of fields, including digital and new media, advertising and marketing, journalism, and the arts.

School General Description

One of New York City’s premier public institutions, FIT is an internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business. We’re known for our rigorous, unique, and adaptable academic programming, experiential learning opportunities, academic and industry partnerships, and commitment to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. While our pedagogical mission is to prepare our students for professional excellence in design and business, our broader ethos is to foster creativity, inspire leadership, impart a global perspective, and educate students to embrace inclusiveness, commit to sustainability, and engage with community. We encourage students, scholars, teachers, and industry colleagues to cross traditional boundaries of both geography and disciplines. Together we strive to develop innovative design and strategic business solutions that will upend the status quo, create personal and professional opportunity, and have a lasting and sustainable global impact.