University degrees: Courses, Online Courses, Postgraduate, Short-Courses, Summer University, Workshops
At York, we like to share our passion for the moving image. With 450 undergrad majors, 75 MFA, MA and PhD students, and thousands of non-majors enrolled in our courses, we have plenty of opportunities. Visit our site to learn more about our programs, whether our powerhouse undergraduate degrees or our renowned graduate program. You can check out the details of our course offerings, including our popular courses for non-majors. Then there are the international exchanges we are busy developing and the internships that have led to employment for many of our students. Our programs in the Fine Arts Summer Intensive offer even wider opportunities for learning.
The Department of Cinema & Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) is Canada’s first and foremost film school with three specialized streams of study, premier production facilities, field placements, strong industry as well as independent film & media arts community connections, backed by a stellar faculty of internationally renowned filmmakers, screenwriters & scholars.
You are exploring our site because you are part of a global culture infused with cinematic imagination, but you want more, you want to become a maker, a writer or a trained scholar in moving images, which inhabit all screens – from mobile phones to gigantic IMAX screens.
At AMPD’s Department of Cinema & Media Arts, we nurture creative, bold, and meaningful work by new generations of filmmakers and scholars. We proudly offer far more than technical training, we offer a rich, intellectually stimulating, critically engaged university experience steeped in creativity with a blend of practice and theory to lay down a strong foundation.
Community is central to AMPD’s Department of Cinema & Media Arts, offering all kinds of possibilities for collaboration and the sharing of ideas between students in the different areas, as well as with students from other departments. Collaborate with AMPD students to score music or with a theatre major as actors or on film production design.
We offer a strong production program complemented by theory & cinema history, the only screenwriting program in Canada, and a cinema & media studies program that offers critical engagement from classic cinema to gaming. Explore documentary, fiction or alternative filmmaking. Enrich your skills in directing, cinematography, sound, editing, production management and production design.
Our curriculum is constantly being enriched by the research and creation work of our faculty.
Study with award-winning filmmakers and leading scholars of the big and small screen. As a production student, build lifelong relationships with our industry partners or get your first break through a field placement.
Join more than 500 students and an ever growing alumni network that includes, Oscar-winning Rhombus Media, a leading Canadian production company started by Niv Fichman, Barbara Willis Sweete & Larry Wiseman, award winning directors Sean Garrity, Chelsea McMillian, Nicolas Pereda (Mexico), Mohan Indraganti (India), Amil Shivji (Uganda); cinematographers Rene Ohashi CSC, ASC, Paul Sarossy CSC, ASC, BSC, Mathew Lloyd, CSC, Iris Ng; production designer Tavo Soodor; scriptwriter & actor Sugith Verughese; Emmy award winning filmmaker & game designer Thomas Wallner; award winning producer & President of the CMPA (Canadian Media Production Association) Mary Young Leckie; President and CEO of British Columbia’s Knowledge Network Corporation Rudy Buttignol.
The successes of our alumni speak to the strong foundational education we offer on which to build a successful career in an ever-changing competitive field.
Define your creative future now with AMPD Cinema & Media Arts.
York’s Graduate Program in Film offers degrees in Cinema and Media Studies (MA and PhD), Production (MFA), Screenwriting (MFA), and the joint MBA/MFA & MBA/MA degrees.
The largest and most comprehensive Graduate Program of Cinema and Media Arts in Canada continues to build on York University’s longstanding commitment to deliver innovative and interdisciplinary post-graduate training. Our MA, MFA and PhD programs offer state of the art research and teaching facilities (including two research labs featuring Augmented Reality, 3D, locative media and diverse mobile screen interfaces) distinguished by leading edge creation / research and scholarship by internationally acclaimed faculty.
We are situated in the centre of film culture in English Canada. Toronto provides students with exceptional exposure to film screenings (from Bell Lightbox to numerous repertory cinemas), festivals (over 100 film festivals occur each year, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs, and Images Festival), and resources (research collections, studios, and industry offices). Recent guests at York include Michel Brault, Thomas Elsaesser, David Gatten, Guy Maddin, Hito Steyerl, and Clement Virgo, among many others.
