Event details
Want to find out more about how an online, part-time MA in Film Practice can help you progress your filmmaking career?
Join our MA Film Practice Q&A and hear from Course Leader Karen Cunningham, expert lecturer and experienced filmmaker. Karen will be joined by fellow filmmaker and Online Tutor on the MA course, Andy McVicar. Together, they will dive deep into the MA, its online delivery and flexibility, whilst answering any questions that you might have.
This is your chance to meet our industry experts, and see them cover a wide array of topics such as:
- The skillset required to become a successful MA student with AUB
- The structure of the course and a closer look at they key Course Units
- Top tips on how to get the best out of the application process
- How your work will be assessed
We’d love to have you attend. By learning more about the MA and how it can benefit you, you can make a more confident decision on your future.
Register for the event by using the form on this page.
Presenters
Karen Cunningham
Course Leader
MA Film Practice
Karen is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with moving image. She has shown work nationally and internationally and her recent films have been commissioned by LUX moving image, Collective Gallery Edinburgh, and The Centre for Research Collections at Edinburgh University.
Karen has been actively engaged in the expanded field of moving image as a filmmaker, programmer, researcher, and tutor for over 20 years. She has also curated a number of screenings and events for various institutions including Tramway, Glasgow, and VBKÖ, Austria.
Andy McVicar
Online Tutor
MA Film Practice
Andy McVicar is a filmmaker based in North Shields. His producing work has encompassed feature films made with various UK and international funders and partners, including Bypass (Venice Film Festival 2014), Light Years (Venice Critics’ Week 2015) & The Uprising (MoMA Docs 2014). As a writer and director Andy's work has screened and won awards internationally, and he’s currently developing long-form film & TV projects with partners including BFI, Northeast Screen, Shudder Films, Company Pictures and Good Chaos.
As well as his teaching at AUB, Andy has lectured at several other institutions in the UK including Northumbria University, Arvon Writer's Retreat, Sunderland University and Teesside University.