Film University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Overview

Consistently ranked one of Variety’s “Best Film Schools,” our award-winning Film, Video, Animation and New Genres department is the best place to pursue your dream of being a filmmaker. We’re experts at helping you develop your creative, conceptual and technical abilities. That means you don’t simply earn a technical degree. You earn a fully immersive, creative, time-based and cinematic production degree that sets you up for success as a creative thinker, an informed viewer and an art maker — someone whose imaginative skills are matched by your ability to use technology and the craft of cinema to express something meaningful. 

The Film degree at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee immerses you in every aspect of the filmmaking process to better understand how every role works together. We teach all aspects of film production equally, so you graduate fully versed in cinematography, sound recording, editing, directing, producing, videography, idea development and more. Our program also teaches all film genres – narrative, documentary, animation, experimental or a blend of any of these. Think of yourself as a one-person production company, totally prepared to enter the film industry or other creative communities.

It’s all about giving you a comprehensive education to meet the needs of an evolving industry and the demand for creative thinkers and makers. And you will have plenty of opportunity to tell those stories you’ve been daydreaming about. In your first year alone, you’ll make six films!

Film & Animation Careers

• 3D Modeler 

• ADR Editor

• Advertising Producer

• Aerial Cinematographer 

• Animator / Stop-motion Animator

• Art Director 

• Artist

• Assistant Director 

• Best Boy

• Boom Operator 

• Camera Operator 

• Casting Director 

• Character Rigger 

• Cinematographer

• Colorist

• Compositing Artist 

• Copywriter / Content Developer

• Creature Designer

• Curator / Programmer 

• Development Executive 

• Digital Imaging Technician

• Digital Media Product Developer 

• Director

• Distributor 

• Dolly Grip

• Drone Operator 

• Dubbing Mixer 

• Editor

• Educational Video Director / Producer

• Educator / University Administrator

• Electrician

• Electronics & Sensor Designer 

• Entertainment / Studio Executive 

• Festival Director / Programmer 

• Film Archivist / Processor / Writer 

• Filmmaker

• Fixer

• Foley Specialist 

• Forensic Animator 

• Gaffer

• Image Librarian / Archivist 

• Interaction Designer 

• Jimmy Jib Operator

• Key Grip

• Lighting Designer / Technician 

• Line Producer

• Location Manager / Scout 

• Marketing Executive

• Medical Animator

• Motion Capture Engineer

• Motion Graphics Designer / Producer 

• Multimedia Artist / Journalist / Producer 

• Photo Asset Manager / Instructor / Editor 

• Photographic Labs / Image Producer 

• Photojournalist

• Post-Production Supervisor 

• Press Agent

• Producer (Film, TV, Web)

• Production Designer / Manager 

• Prop Maker / Producer

• Public Relations / Publicist / Publisher

• Puppet Fabricator

• Recording & Mastering Engineer 

• Researcher

• Rights & Clearances Manager

• Rotoscope Artist 

• Screenwriter

• Script Editor / Supervisor / Writer 

• Set Constructor / Designer / Director 

• Sound Designer / Editor / Mixer 

• Steadicam Operator

• Still Photographer

• Storyboard Artist 

• Talent Producer

• Visual Effects Specialist / Supervisor 

• Wardrobe Supervisor