School of Film, Television, and Media Arts
Shaun Clarke, Interim Dean
Shaun’s work spans a wide range of productions, including short and feature-length narrative films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. Read more.
For the directors, editors, producers, animators, critics, cinematographers, sound designers, and media makers ready to get to work. Here, you don’t just study film, television, and media arts. You make them—with real tools, real crews, real feedback, and real work to show for it.
From your first year, you’ll write, shoot, edit, produce, animate, analyze, and collaborate across the media arts—with access to professional spaces, industry-minded faculty, and a creative community that takes your ideas seriously. And, you’re never boxed in here. Whether you’re drawn to narrative film, television, animation, installation art, virtual and augmented reality, or other emerging forms of storytelling, this is where you start turning what you imagine into something real.
Programs
The School of Film, Television, and Media Arts is home to four undergraduate majors and two graduate programs, plus four minors.
Add Another Dimension to Your Degree
Minors give you more ways to shape your Emerson experience around what you want to study, make, and pursue. Explore options within the School of Film, Television, and Media Arts or across Emerson’s other two schools to create a path that fits your goals.
Ethos
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Randy Barbato ’82
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Adele Lim ’96
Screenwriter, Director, and Film and TV Producer -
Seth Grahame-Smith ’98
Writer and Film Producer
Studios, Spaces, and Soundstages
Students in the School of Film, Television, and Media Arts learn by doing. They gain marketable skills both inside and outside of the classroom thanks to their immediate access to our cutting-edge venues, labs, and studios.
Live, Work, and Study in Los Angeles
Spend a semester at our LA campus in one of the world’s most influential creative capitals, and learn how the industry works from right inside it.
Located on the iconic Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood, Emerson Los Angeles combines coursework, a semester-long internship, industry access, and alumni connections in one immersive experience. For film, television, and media arts students, that means bringing your ambition and your reel into the same city where so much of the work gets made—and starting to understand where your own work could go next.
Find Your People. Do Your Thing.
With 100+ student organizations and co-curricular activities, you’ll never run out of opportunities to strengthen your craft outside of the classroom—and to find the people who make your work braver, weirder, clearer, and stronger.
Produce the EVVYs, the largest student-run, multi-camera production in the nation. Make films with Emerson Independent Video, Frames Per Second, or Women in Motion. Star in your very own television series on Emerson Channel, explore music with Emerson Records, or draft your pilot with our screenwriting organization.
Whatever you want to do or make, you’ll find a crew, a platform, and real work to add to your reel.
Where This Takes You
By the time you graduate, you’re not starting from scratch—you’re already working.
Our students don’t wait until graduation to start their careers—they’re interning at production companies, festivals, and studios while still in school. They’re building reels that land them jobs at major networks, indie production houses, and streaming platforms. And they’re making work that actually gets seen: students screen their films at festivals, share their thesis projects with agents, and create portfolios strong enough to skip the entry-level scramble.
Recent students and alumni have found internships at:
