MA Filmmaking at Nottingham Trent University

The MA Filmmaking challenges students to innovate within and beyond moving-image practices, exploring film production and exhibition with virtual production, emerging and established technologies and analogue practice. It suits creative practitioners keen on research-informed projects in independent and experimental filmmaking.

Faculty: Nottingham School of Art & Design  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Intake: September 2026  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Three core modules (Film Experiments, Film Project and Culture and Collaboration) plus one 20-credit option from Professional Futures and Advancing Research Design. The 100-credit Film Project runs from development to exhibition, including a proposal to an industry panel and an end-of-year festival.

Career pathways

The course integrates industry engagement through guest lectures from independent filmmakers, producers and curators and an outward-facing end-of-year festival.

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