The Department of Film, Television, and Media is housed in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), the largest college in the university. FTVM offers a unique curriculum that stresses both critical thinking and creative expression in the classic liberal arts tradition. FTVM’s acclaimed faculty of film, television, and digital scholars, artists and industry professionals help students find their passion be it in screenwriting, production, or academic studies.

FTVM’s Screenwriting Sub-Major gives students the opportunity to write two feature-length screenplays, a spec TV script, and an original TV pilot. The sub-major requires students to take a semester long rewrite class and offers them the opportunity to take a special course that teaches students how to pitch their story ideas to industry professionals. FTVM’s Screenwriting Program features the Donald Hall Collection, a vast screenplay library that contains over 5,000 scripts and 50,000 dvds. The Screenwriting Program sponsors multiple visiting artist programs that bring to Ann Arbor a stellar list of diverse screenwriters, writer-directors, showrunners, television writers, producers, agents, and studio heads who speak to all our writing students and conduct master classes every year.

University of Michigan FTVM
6330 N. Quad 105 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734 764 0147
lsa.umich.edu

Jim Burnstein
John H. Mitchell Professor of Entertainment
734-355-5522
[email protected]