06/06/2025
Learn DIRECTING for TV and FILM at UCLA.
Apply by March 2, 2026-- Classes begin on March 30, 2026
Over the course of 38 sessions with special guest directors and industry professionals, students in this graduate-level certificate program learn the tools necessary to command a professional film or television project through development, preproduction, production and postproduction.
Study with professionals from The Sopranos, Sh**un, Homeland, Running Point, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the BBC, The Shield, The Last of Us, Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Goldbergs, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Naughty Dog, Alias, It Follows, Promising Young Woman, I Feel Pretty, Mad Men, Jack Ryan, Dandelion, and more!
The following topics are scheduled: Working with Producers, Articulation of Narrative POV, Story for Film and TV, The Director of Photography, Pitch Decks, Trailers and Looks Books, The Casting Session, The Production Designer, The Director and the Budget, Previsualization, The Tone Meeting/Table Read, Designing the Shot, The Assistant Director, Hostile Filming Environments, Dramatizations and True Crime, Indie vs. Studio Case Studies, How to Break Into the Business, The Horrors of Directing Low Budget Horror, The Commercial Director, Intimacy Coordination, Costume Design, Working with an Editor, Stunt Coordination, AI and the Director, Scoring for Film and Television, Guest Directing Episodic, Post Sound, Acting for Directors—and on campus nights of working with Special Guest Directors directing actors in different genres and situations.
https://professionalprograms.tft.ucla.edu
UCLA TFT Professional Programs. Screenwriting. Producing. Writing for Television. Acting for the Camera. Directing.
