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Good producers work to ensure screen productions exceed the reasonable sum of the myriad lements from which they are crafted. In the department’s Producing Center, film and video makers acquire the skills to pitch film and video ideas to producing entities within the existing system of professional film production and financing. They also learn to manage a full range of productions across the moving image media and how to sell completed works to a producer/distributor.

Courses emphasize merging the creative and business skills necessary to: find material; conduct research; productively employ ‘people management’ skills and networking strategies; develop project proposals; build creative teams; and interact with creative and technical personnel. Students are taught how to negotiate, finance, and distribute creative work for the screen according to the aims, content and approach of any particular project. Career outcomes may be in producing, line producing, and production management, and senior students are eligible to apply to participate in our Semester in L.A program.