Master in Filmmaking
Paris, France
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
18 Aug 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 14,800 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Non-EU/ Non-Schengen Area applicants (visa-seeking students) : 18th August 2025
Introduction
Are you an international student? Do you hold a Bachelor degree in cinema or AV? Are you fluent in English? Do you aspire to work in the field of filmmaking? (be it in directing, writing, image and post-production to name the least), then 3iS is the place to make your dreams come true.
How's that?
A t 3iS, we place a huge emphasis on hands-on-learning all the way through the 2 years of the MFM program.
Tell me more about it!
During your first year at 3iS, you will be able to produce your very first AV project according to your course director or tutor. Nonetheless, you will manage a team made up of students from all other sectors.
In the second year, you will experience the art of filmmaking by means of the requirements awaiting you! You will have to write and shoot a short fiction film in professional conditions, and you will be asked to design a documentary for which you write a full production file together with a 5-minute teaser!
Is that all?
In addition, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of a personalized, one-to-one instruction from a tutor working in the field you are looking up to! This opportunity covers a range of fields: directing scriptwriting, camera operating or 1st assistant. Such personalized monitoring for a personal project each year will enable you to develop your professional project, which will have an impact on your overall progress.
One last thing to add?
In order to facilitate and consolidate learning, the Master in Filmmaking class has a restricted intake of 25 students.
Study Program
- Producing and directing
- Cutting
- Directing actors
- Managing a team
- Writing a screenplay
- Script doctoring
- Optics, colorimetry, photometry, and equipment technology
- Camera angles
- Multi-camera fiction recording
- Photography direction: lighting control
- Storytelling through editing
- Calibration
- Preparing a subject, research, documentation
- History of the cinema
- Language discovery and French cultural awareness
- Production management
- Professional documentary project
- Professional fiction project (synopsis, pitch, project note, moodboard)
Project
Do you want to know more about the project?
The MFM program lies at the heart of 3iS, mainly for its approach: "learning by the project". In other words, throughout the 2 years, you will produce your projects independently within a class group, together with the support of other English-speaking 3iS programs.
What does it consist of?
- 15' film
- 20' film
- Documentary
- Multi-camera TV fiction series
- Advertisement (filmed in a studio)
- Theater production filming: a very short film in a single place
- Musical clip (in collaboration with a musical group)
- Reporting and interviewing
- Personal “ready to shoot” project (production and artistic files)
- An individual technical or artistic research project, tutored by a trainer
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Ideal Students
To be eligible, students must meet the following admission requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (preferably in Fine Arts, although other fields will be considered for admission)
- Be at least 18 years old
- Demonstrate proficiency in English (minimum B2 level) to be able to follow the program
IELTS: 5.5 TOEFL: 72 Linguaskill (Bulats): 60
TOEIC: 785 Duolingo: 95 Cambridge English Qualifications: 160
Students can also prove proficiency by submitting a certificate from their previous institution stating that their previous degree was taught entirely in English.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Thank you for your interest in joining our program.
At the moment, we do not offer scholarships. However, you can apply for a grant or financial aid from the French government. We invite students to look at websites like Campus France or the French Ministry of Higher Education to find scholarships and grants.
For more information, please check Bourses destinées aux étudiants étrangers | Campus France.
Please note that the application deadlines for scholarships differ from one country to another.
Best wishes,
Program Outcome
Program
Develop artistic and technical skills in filmmaking
This comprehensive curriculum enables Filmmaking students to gain a wide array of skills
Production
Develop your artistic and technical skills in areas such as directing, producing, filmmaking and editing. You will learn to write, direct and produce multi-camera studio programs, mainstream movies, series, and dramatic short films. With each production, students receive additional training from professionals in filmmaking techniques, editing, and post-production. Filmmaking students work in teams on productions under professional supervision.