VCA Film and Television trains students to a professional level to make motion picture programs of a high artistic and technical standard. Students also gain a broad understanding of the motion picture industry and development of world cinema.
Students are encouraged to be innovative, to experiment, to explore ideas and develop the expertise to express their ideas in motion pictures for an audience. The department promotes independent learning with a large component of its courses requiring hands on production, which provides students with the opportunity to develop creative and technical expertise through practical experience. Students develop craft skills with special emphasis on screenwriting and direction and editing. VCA Film and Television aims to produce graduates who can generate and develop ideas and who also have skills in some specialist areas.
VCA Film & TV is located in a modern, purpose designed building, in the heart of the Victorian arts precinct, 10 minutes walk from the centre of Melbourne. The school has location equipment for broadcast quality video and 16mm film production together with fully equipped animation and visual effects studios. There are two film studios, two rushes rooms, a 90 seat cinema and use of a 220 seat cinema/recital hall. The school also has digital post production facilities for both sound and vision.
The VCA School of Film and Television has an international reputation for the high quality of its graduates and its student productions. Many students have gone on to develop high profile careers in the film and television or allied industries and have won numerous awards, both locally and internationally. Programs produced by students are successful in film festivals both nationally and internationally.
Most graduates from the VCA School of Film and television become employed in the industry, often working initially in an assistant capacity as freelancers.
- March 2005 -
Mona Lisa, director Sotouris Dounoukis (2003) and And One Step Back, director Mark Robinson (2003) were screened at the Adelaide International Film Festival. These two films also screened at Flickerfest Film Festival.
And One Step Back has been licensed to SBS and will be screened on Eat Carpet at the end of March/early April.
Shadow in the Wood director Luhsun Tan (2003) was highly commended in the 2005 DIY Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Happy Endings director Marcel Rasquin (2004) will be screened at the annual showcase of cinema in New York hosted by the Australian/American Society.
Marco Solo, director Adrian Bosich (2003) screened in the following:
- World Comedy Film Festival in Toronto
- 2005 Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival
- Flickerfest
- Included in The Sydney Film Festival Travelling Film Festival (first stop is Darwin!)
- Included in Australia Week in Los Angeles - Adrian attended this as a guest of the festival.
Breaking the Habit, director Will Huxley (2004) has been selected for screening in Realm of the Senses (Melbourne) and for FEST international short film festival in Portugal.
Neighbourhood Botch, director Jurg Hostetler (2004) was in competition at the XI Etiuda International Film Festival in Krakow.