Master of Arts in Feature Film Development with Professional Placement

An eighteen month master degree in screen development including a placement, covering screenwriting, script editing, packaging and financing and supervised industry practice.

Film development runs on relationships and slate knowledge, both of which a placement inside a production company builds far faster than study does.

Master of Arts in Feature Film Development with Professional Placement is taught at the Birmingham City University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the film development placement master is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the film development placement master ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the film development placement master you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the film development placement master as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the film development placement master cannot support a family move.

Admission to Master of Arts in Feature Film Development with Professional Placement requires a bachelor degree at 70 percent. The English requirement is IELTS 6.0 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the film development placement master is recorded at GBP 20,865 a year. BCU charges no application fee, so applying for the film development placement master costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the film development placement master lists three September entry windows, in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Apply Study Visa manages the the film development placement master application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.