Our Film program goes beyond aesthetics, techniques, and processes, so you’ll develop a personal filmmaking style that’s inventive and expressive.
Film Production Suites
Media Gallery
Film Program studios & spaces
360° view of Film Soundstage | California College of the Arts
Meet Sidney Turner (Film 2025)
About BFA Film
Facilities and resources
🎥 About BFA Film
We think broadly about the medium of film, exploring forms like narrative, experimental, installation, media art, and documentary. You’ll learn how to make films independently and collaboratively, with solid production skills—writing, producing, filming, and editing—and foundations in media theory.
Make a thesis film
The grand finale is the Senior Projects course, where you’ll conceptualize, produce, and edit a final work shared at a public screening. Lamont Lamar’s (BFA Film 2020) thesis film, The Night It Rained, has been screened nationally and internationally, including at the 2021 LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival.
🎬 Facilities and resources
As a film student, you have access to a large production stage, audio suites, pre- and post-production suites, and a well-stocked media center. Our green screen cyclorama is a favorite for creating endless environments in post-production, and 360 cameras and VR headsets are available so you can explore storytelling in extended reality.
Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage
This black-box film-production studio provides film students and others with a blank canvas for cinematic creativity. The 2,100-square-foot space includes a permanent audio-visual system, a stage floor, a green-screen cyclorama with a lighting grid, and various production tools like C-stands, lighting kits, and paper backdrops.
Film Cage
From SD cards to lighting kits, get gear for film and video productions from the Film Cage. Current inventory includes DSLR cameras, audio recorders, sound equipment, tripods, lighting kits with scrims, softboxes, and gels, as well as LCD monitors, and grip equipment like sliders, handheld rigs, and gimbals.
