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Develop your visual, technical, storytelling, and professional workplace skills. Study all aspects of filmmaking in scripted and documentary film, pre-production planning, budget planning, concept development, screenwriting and screen adaptations; production related directing, cinematography, set design, lighting, sound, and post-production including sound design and editing. Learn narrative, non-narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking traditions and create films based on experimentation with narrative and formal expression.
Sample Courses: Film Production I, Film Production II, Film Business and Professional Practice I, Film Studies I, Documentary Production I, Screenwriting I, Cinematography I, Sound Editing I, Film Editing I
Career Tracks: Editor, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Gaffer, Sound Recordist, Production Assistant, Camera Assistant, DIT (Digital Imaging Technician)
Daniel J. Murphy
Assistant Director of Academy Award Best Picture nominee Women Talking (2022)
Matt Gallagher
HotDocs award-winning film director and cinematographer
“Completing my Masters at the University of Windsor gave me the opportunity to further develop my love of film and media arts. My favourite part of my MFA program was the one-on-one support from my thesis advisors”.
Alysha Baker-Diaz
Assistant Editor, Directors Guild of Canada
Michael Allcock
Multi-Gemini Award nominated writer and director
Professor Min Bae has been avidly devoted to cinematography and filmmaking since 1990. He has expertise and training in film production, cinematography and fine arts, a reflection of his education in Montreal, France, and Korea. Min Bae has been a collaborator on several award-winning independent films presented/recognized in festivals worldwide. Works include Situation (1995), Off Sync (2000), Where are we (2004), Two Islands (2007), Qausuittuq (2020), and Reset (2021).
Film Academic Coordinator
"Our greatest strength is our faculty. University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts graduate film faculty are a fabulous mix of award-winning and internationally recognized scholars and practitioners. They offer breadth and depth of experience in a variety of film genres and modes. I’m proud to be part of a Film MFA program that integrates theory and practice in a highly creative environment."
Professor Nick Hector is a renowned filmmaker with over three decades of experience in editing, producing and directing documentary films and programs. His work has been recognized with 48 national and international awards and has been screened at major festivals around the world, including three of the “Big Five”: TIFF, Berlinale, and Sundance. He has collaborated with celebrated film-artists such as Allan King and has focused on social justice and environmental issues in his creative work. He is best known for his work on Dying at Grace, a masterpiece of cinéma-vérité that is part of the Criterion Collection.
Dr. Kim Nelson is a scholar and filmmaker who leads the Humanities Research Group. She has created captivating feature-length documentaries such as Berliner (2010) and This Is What A Feminist Sounds Like (2012) that have been showcased and celebrated across the globe at international film festivals, on the CBC in Canada, and with KCET in the United-States. She has also received prestigious grants and fellowships from SSHRC, DAAD, the Cinema Research Institute at NYU, and the Ontario Arts Council to support her innovative research and creative work.
Michael Stasko is a talented and award-winning filmmaker who has written and directed five feature films that have premiered at prestigious festivals and sold to major distributors. His films range from comedy to sci-fi to drama, and feature stars like Ray Wise, Tom Cavanagh, Fred Willard, Graham Greene, Colin Mochrie and Kevin McDonald. He has also created and produced original TV shows for YTV and CBC. Michael Stasko is a versatile and visionary storyteller who always delivers engaging and entertaining stories for the screen. Works include Things To Do (2006), Iodine (2009), The Birder (2013), The Control (2018) and Boys Vs. Girls (2019).
Tony Lau is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian filmmaker who has worked on numerous films, documentaries, and animations that have premiered on international platforms. In collaboration with CBC, he produced an animation series called “Plantemic” and the short documentary “A Sweet and Sour Christmas”. Funded by Telefilm Canada, he produced a feature film, Stand Up Man, in 2016. His work explores issues of ethnicity, identity and the immigrant experience in the Canadian context. His filmic work has been screened and awarded at a variety of national and international venues including the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.
Land Acknowledgment
The University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We respect the longstanding relationships with First Nations people in this place in the 100-mile Windsor-Essex peninsula and the straits – les détroits – of Detroit.
