The program meets for 38 weeknights over a ten-week period. Over 30 different guest lecturers cover their topic of expertise. The following topics are scheduled for spring 2026:

Envisioning Your Career, and Working Creatively With a Producer, Articulation of Narrative POV, Story Structure for Film and Television, Working with Actors, Development, Sales and Production for Film and TV, The Director of Photography, The Call Sheet—A Breakdown of the Crew from Creative to Crafty, Get Your Movie Made with Pitch Decks, Look Books and Trailers, The Production Designer, The Director and the Budget, Previsualization for Directors, Indie Case Study, The Assistant Director, Hostile Filming Environments, Dramatizations and True Crime, Intimacy Coordination, Putting Your Independent Film, Together from Script to Financing, Agents, Managers, and Lawyers – What Representation Does, The Horrors of Directing a Low Budget Horror Film, The Commercial Director, The Table Read, Costume Design, Scoring for Film and Television, What Editing Is—The Creative Aspects, Working with an Editor up to Turning it Over to the Sound team, The Stunt Coordinator, AI and the Director, Guest Directing on an Episodic Drama Series, Designing the shot (Static), Designing the shot (Fluid), Shooting the One Hour Drama, Mocap, Directing a Horror Scene—Blood Will Always Go Wrong. The Casting Session, Shot Listing and Pivoting: A Crash Course in TV Directing, Working with a Stunt Coordinator, Shooting the Last Minute Script, Acting for Directors, Directing Actors.

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