About
VCAM 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. VCAM Film and Television aims to produce graduates who can generate and develop ideas and who also have skills in some specialist areas.
Film and Television at VCAM is the longest-running film school in Australia which began at Swinburne Technical College in 1966 before transferring to the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 1992. It’s illustrious alumni include Gillian Armstrong, Richard Lowenstein, Michael Leunig, Esben Storm, John Ruane, Dennis Tupicoff, Sarah Watt, Robert Luketic, Jamie Blanks and Adam Elliot.
VCAM 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.
VCAM 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 VCAM Film and Television become employed in the industry, often working initially in an assistant capacity as freelancers.