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Make your creative ambitions a reality, with a film and screen media production degree at Griffith
Develop professional level skills in film direction, producing, camera, sound, lighting, editing, digital composing, scriptwriting and research. Leverage our strong industry links, work placement opportunities, mentoring programs, master classes and guest lectures with industry specialists. Follow in the footsteps of other successful graduates and submit your projects to national and international film festivals. This course guides you in developing the practical skills and knowledge essential to working successfully in the media industry. You'll graduate with the skills, show reel and contacts to realise your screen media dreams.
Double degrees
Double your degree, multiply your opportunities.
Study film and screen media production at Griffith
Learn from the world’s best
Griffith Film School students learn from acclaimed figures such as Hollywood directors Gil Bettman and Mark Travis, Indonesia’s number one filmmaker Garin Nugroho, Academy Award-winning animator Adam Elliot and leading international documentary maker Professor Doe Mayer. Access an exciting calendar of guest lectures and master classes, including by Lord David Puttnam, multi-Oscar award-winning producer.
Get a hands-on education across various digital formats using the most advanced facilities, including a cinema. Acquire a thorough grounding in the history, practice and critical analysis of film. Choose from electives in editing, producing, cinematography, directing, scriptwriting and production design, among many others. You’ll take courses in screen production and screen distribution. You’ll have the advantage of supervised work placement.
Facilities and resources
Excellent facilities include 16mm and high-definition video; studio facilities providing multi-camera and sound stage capacity; motion capture; significant post-production labs and edit rooms; and state-of-the-art sound recording studios.
Practical experience
Build your portfolio and develop vital contacts and networks through our key industry links. Work on projects for real clients through our commercial multimedia production arm, LiveLab, led by BAFTA award-winning creative director Richard Fabb. LiveLab works with local creators to produce global online content and were a part of the Queensland Creative Entrepreneurship Program, that brought together YouTube, the Queensland Government and LiveLab to offer content creators world-class skills.
Film and screen media production showreel
Griffith Film School at SXSW
Griffith film students, faculty and alumni travel each year to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. Supported by Screen Queensland, Griffith Film School lecturer Sue Swinburne leads the delegation and curates a showcase of Queensland’s best new media producers.
In 2019 film alumni Lucas Taylor and Samudranil (Sam) Chatterjee were selected to screen their latest projects at SXSW. Lucas’ sci-fi project for NBC Universal, Eleven Eleven is an original storytelling experience designed for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Sam screened his short film, Outdooring.
Sam said his time at Griffith Film School had laid the foundations for a career in the industry.
“Griffith was a perfect place to meet filmmakers with varying voices. At Griffith, I had room to test and shoot various projects and fail as much I needed. I found that extremely valuable. Without that process, you simply cannot become a cinematographer or an artist.”
Bleach festival
Three-year partnership with Bleach* Festival to provide extensive practical experience to Griffith students from 2019
Career outcomes
Enter the film and screen world with the competence and flair to practise your craft anywhere you choose
Our skilled graduates are also presented with abundant opportunities in their home state, thanks to established studio facilities, a unique environment and government incentives attracting productions across a wide range of genres and budgets. Depending on your areas of specialisation and choice of electives, your career options could include roles in the mainstream film and television industries working on:
- Commercials
- Music videos
- Corporate videos
- Streamed online content
- Film festivals and awards
- Video/digital art practice
Griffith graduates continue to win international accolades for their creativity, motivation and professional approach to their career development.
Life at Griffith
You can gain more than just a degree at Griffith. With plenty of opportunities to balance life and study, you can make memories and mates to last a lifetime.
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Key dates
Monday 8 March — Saturday 19 June
Trimester 1
Our first teaching trimester starts on Monday 8 March 2021 . Trimester 1 examinations run from Thursday 10 to Saturday 19 June.
Thursday 6 May — Saturday 8 May
Gold Coast Careers and Employment Festival
Tuesday 18 May
Mature Student Open Evening - Online
Wednesday 19 May
Mature Student Open Evening - Nathan Campus
Thursday 20 May
Mature Student Open Evening - Gold Coast Campus
Friday 21 May — Saturday 22 May
Brisbane Careers and Employment Expo
Monday 19 July — Saturday 30 October
Trimester 2
Our second teaching trimester starts on Monday 19 July. Trimester 2 examinations run from Saturday 21 to Saturday 30 October.
Monday 13 September
Mature Student Open Evening - Online
Wednesday 15 September
Mature Student Open Evening - Nathan Campus
Thursday 16 September
Mature Student Open Evening - Gold Coast Campus
Friday 17 December — Thursday 23 December