WHY The Charles Burnett
Graduate School of Global Cinema?
CBSGC offers an innovative global learning space for serious creatives to facilitate excellence in story and artistry in all filmmaking aspects, focusing on the Black experience and history as a profound root and resource for cinematic arts.
We aim to equip students to interact and humbly learn from world cultures, and to foster global entertainment industry relationships and experiences, positioning graduates for meaningful careers in the entertainment industry and inspiring in them a life-long commitment to equity, inclusion, and justice, propelled by faith, generosity, and love.
INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
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A groundbreaking three-year Master of Fine Arts degree
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Revolves around experiential learning in Hollywood and centers of cinematic industry and
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The second-year global experience allows students to incorporate artistic and industrial perspectives
from other cultures as a creative resource for their own art and to build valuable international
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Year 2 features semester-long experiences in filmmaking around the globe
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May-July: Cannes, France (European cinema)
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August-December: Seoul, Korea (East Asian cinema)
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January term: Mumbai, India (Bollywood & Indian Art cinema)
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February-May: Cape Town, South Africa (African cinema), with two weeks in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Year 3 focus
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Hollywood cinema and the business in Los Angeles
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Final MFA project, which includes the option of making a feature film.
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