24 monthsProgramme duration
40,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
25 Jun, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MFA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
The Creative Documentary by Practice MFA will train you in the craft and techniques of non-fiction filmmaking. You will develop your understanding of documentary as a creative research practice, making films which interrogate and explore the contemporary world.
In the first year, you will produce three short films, supported by weekly workshops, seminars, tutorials and screenings. In the second year, you will produce your graduation project: a longer film exploring a subject of your choice, supported by an industry mentor.
In addition to your core practical filmmaking, you will take three optional modules from a range offered within the department. From audio production to experimental cinema, you will specialize in the elements of public anthropology that interest you most.
You will also take the MFA module on collaborative filmmaking and work with a researcher or practitioner from another field on a collaborative documentary project. This module is offered exclusively to students studying the MFA in Creative Documentary by Practice.
You will learn to produce creative and compelling films and graduate an imaginative, risk-taking and intellectually engaged filmmaker, trained to produce your ideas to a professional standard and push boundaries in the field.
Graduation films produced on the MFA Creative Documentary by Practice have screened internationally at BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying film festivals, and have been nominated for Grierson and Royal Television Society awards.
Recent works include Dancing Palestine by Lamees Almakkawy, which received a Special Mention in the International Short Film Competition at Sheffield DocFest 2024, I Don’t Speak Dog by Rime Mahdi which premiered at Visions du Reel 2026 and Ma, Let’s Fly Together by Yash Zhang, which was selected for the Edinburgh Pitch Lab 2024.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MFA
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
The Creative Documentary by Practice MFA will train you in the craft and techniques of non-fiction filmmaking. You will develop your understanding of documentary as a creative research practice, making films which interrogate and explore the contemporary world.
In the first year, you will produce three short films, supported by weekly workshops, seminars, tutorials and screenings. In the second year, you will produce your graduation project: a longer film exploring a subject of your choice, supported by an industry mentor.
In addition to your core practical filmmaking, you will take three optional modules from a range offered within the department. From audio production to experimental cinema, you will specialize in the elements of public anthropology that interest you most.
You will also take the MFA module on collaborative filmmaking and work with a researcher or practitioner from another field on a collaborative documentary project. This module is offered exclusively to students studying the MFA in Creative Documentary by Practice.
You will learn to produce creative and compelling films and graduate an imaginative, risk-taking and intellectually engaged filmmaker, trained to produce your ideas to a professional standard and push boundaries in the field.
Graduation films produced on the MFA Creative Documentary by Practice have screened internationally at BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying film festivals, and have been nominated for Grierson and Royal Television Society awards.
Recent works include Dancing Palestine by Lamees Almakkawy, which received a Special Mention in the International Short Film Competition at Sheffield DocFest 2024, I Don’t Speak Dog by Rime Mahdi which premiered at Visions du Reel 2026 and Ma, Let’s Fly Together by Yash Zhang, which was selected for the Edinburgh Pitch Lab 2024.
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