COM 452 Advanced Producing and the International Film Market

A 7-week course with a 15-day study abroad component offered annually in mid-May at the leading film industry international festival of new narrative feature films and documentaries - Cannes Festival du Film and Marche. The core of the course is the Cannes intensive component, which is intended to provide a working understanding of the contemporary film market with an emphasis on how the film producer or business executive functions in the marketplace. Participants attend red carpet competition screenings and daily workshops, and participate in internships, networking meet-ups, business and film market symposiums and critique sessions. Film and media arts majors may have their short films juried into Short Film Corner screenings for distributors, producers and festival programmers.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

COM 342 and permission of instructor.

Offered

spring semester