Master of Arts in Film Distribution and Marketing with Professional Placement

An eighteen month master degree in film business including a placement, covering distribution strategy, film marketing, festival circuits and supervised professional practice.

Distribution is the commercial half of cinema and employs steadily, which makes a placement here more likely to convert into paid work than in production fields.

Master of Arts in Film Distribution and Marketing with Professional Placement is taught at the Birmingham City University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the film distribution 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 distribution placement master ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the film distribution placement master you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the film distribution 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 distribution placement master cannot support a family move.

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