
Professional Program Directing Class Deadline
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Change the world through the power of film and television.
Earn your graduate-level certificate at UCLA.
Over the course of 38 sessions with special guest directors and industry professionals, students learn the tools necessary to command a professional film or television project through development, preproduction, production and postproduction.
Apply by May 19th
Program begins June 16th
Professional Programs alumni include:
Ian Stokell (writer/producer, BAFTA Winner for All Quiet on the Western Front), James Ponsoldt (writer/director/producer Running Point, Daisy Jones & the Six, Shrinking, The Spectacular Now), Steven Canals (creator/writer/director, FX’s Pose), Bo Yeon Kim (writer/producer, Star Trek: Discovery, Sweet Tooth, Reign), Sylvia Jones (writer, The Chi, Power Book IV: Force), Will Honley (writer, Subservience, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions), Dan Mazeau (writer/producer, Damsel, Fast X), Olivia Liang (star of Kung Fu), Micah Cyrus (writer, All American, Dead Girl’s Detective Agency), Susan Hurwitz Arneson (producer/writer South Park, The Continental, Preacher, The Tick), Rafaella Biscayne (producer/actor The Strangers: Chapters 1-3), Nicole Riegel (writer/director Dandelion, Holler), and many more.