UCLA Directing MFA Fall 2024

iheartmfa · Oct 21, 2023

Since the app is due in two weeks, wanted to create this

Great luck to everyone, we got this!!!! <3333

Chris W · Oct 21, 2023

Thanks for starting this thread!

Here's our guide to applying to UCLA film school which we just wrote:

UCLA Film School: How to Apply for 2024, Acceptance Rate, and What To Expect as a UCLA TFT Student

As the only film school nationwide where theater, film, television, and digital media studies are concentrated within a single professional school, University of California Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television combines rigorous academic coursework with hands-on training in...

Alexa P.
Oct 14, 2023
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Category: Applying to Film School

Deadline is November 1, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. PST

Here are the past year's application threads:

UCLA MFA Production/Directing Fall 2023

Hey everyone, I don't see a thread for this yet, so figured I'd get one started. Has anybody ever seen application materials (PS, SoP, treatment) from somebody who was accepted or denied? I see a ton of app materials on here for other schools but UCLA is a desert for some strange reason...

www.filmschool.org

UCLA MFA Directing/Production Fall 2022

I didn't see a thread for UCLA MFA directing/production for entry in next fall? so i took the initiative to create one :) Who is applying? How's everyone's portfolio going? We have 40days left until deadline! Let's go everyone!

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And here's all the UCLA threads:

UCLA Film School

All FilmSchool.org discussion threads related to UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

www.filmschool.org

Good luck!!!

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) Acceptance Rate (All Programs/All Years)

31.7%

Admitted

130 out of 410

6.3%

Waitlisted

26 out of 410

62%

Not Admitted

254 out of 410

Click here for our full Admission Statistics for this program including interview and acceptance notification dates, accepted GPAs, waitlist acceptance rate, demographics of accepted applicants, $ amount of scholarship awarded, and more...

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) Acceptance Rate (UCLA - Directing/Film Production MFA/All Years)

21.7%

Admitted

33 out of 152

8.6%

Waitlisted

13 out of 152

69.7%

Not Admitted

106 out of 152

Click here for our full Admission Statistics for this program including interview and acceptance notification dates, accepted GPAs, waitlist acceptance rate, demographics of accepted applicants, $ amount of scholarship awarded, and more...

DJPorras89 · Jan 11, 2024

Hey all! Quick question! I received an email last night saying that they've been trying to reach me about supplemental materials for my application. They said the email they have been trying to contact me from is fgrad@tft.ucla.edu. They also told me to check my spam folder. They asked that I check my email and respond to it with the material requested by the date requested.

I've been staying on top of my emails (checking them several times daily) and looking through my spam folder pretty regularly, but I haven't seen anything at all. The email itself was from Amanda Kibiloski (who I looked up and found on their website listed as the Director of Admissions and Outreach) and I called and left a message for her at the phone number listed on the email.

Has anyone else gotten a similar email? It wasn't a personalized email but looked more like a form letter sent out. I'm just kinda nervous since the email implies there is a deadline to submit materials. I just have no idea what those materials might be since I haven't actually received anything from the email address they listed.

Any thoughts or insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

iheartmfa · Jan 11, 2024

@DJPorras89 just checked my spam folder & couldn't spot an email from them unfortunately! Wish I could be more of help -- that's so weird!!

orianairene · Jan 12, 2024

DJPorras89 said:
Hey all! Quick question! I received an email last night saying that they've been trying to reach me about supplemental materials for my application. They said the email they have been trying to contact me from is fgrad@tft.ucla.edu. They also told me to check my spam folder. They asked that I check my email and respond to it with the material requested by the date requested.

I've been staying on top of my emails (checking them several times daily) and looking through my spam folder pretty regularly, but I haven't seen anything at all. The email itself was from Amanda Kibiloski (who I looked up and found on their website listed as the Director of Admissions and Outreach) and I called and left a message for her at the phone number listed on the email.

Has anyone else gotten a similar email? It wasn't a personalized email but looked more like a form letter sent out. I'm just kinda nervous since the email implies there is a deadline to submit materials. I just have no idea what those materials might be since I haven't actually received anything from the email address they listed.

Any thoughts or insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

I received the same email! I did discover the email in my spam folder. In my case, I didn't submit my film treatment double-spaced

so they asked me to re-submit it double-spaced. The deadline was Jan. 15 for me.

DJPorras89 · Jan 12, 2024

orianairene said:
I received the same email! I did discover the email in my spam folder. In my case, I didn't submit my film treatment double-spaced so they asked me to re-submit it double-spaced. The deadline was Jan. 15 for me.

Thanks for the response! I finally got the email re-sent to me! This time it arrived in my spam folder and I was able to retrieve it. Same deal for me. They just wanted me to reformat my film treatment.

Am I crazy or were the instructions for the treatment kind of a mess? I remember the website saying I needed it to be double-spaced but then the actual application form itself said that it needed to be single-spaced... anyway, I got it all figured out! Thanks again! Best of luck with your apps!

orianairene · Jan 13, 2024

DJPorras89 said:
Thanks for the response! I finally got the email re-sent to me! This time it arrived in my spam folder and I was able to retrieve it. Same deal for me. They just wanted me to reformat my film treatment.

Am I crazy or were the instructions for the treatment kind of a mess? I remember the website saying I needed it to be double-spaced but then the actual application form itself said that it needed to be single-spaced... anyway, I got it all figured out! Thanks again! Best of luck with your apps!

I agree, I found them to be very messy. The whole UCLA application was a little ambiguous for me in terms of instructions. But I appreciate that they gave us the chance to redo it

Chris W · Jan 21, 2024

Just merged our UCLA pages into one:

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT)

UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television teaches film from a theoretical and technical perspective. In 2021, TheWrap ranked UCLA TFT no. 8 in its annual list of the top 50 film schools. And in 2022, U.S. News & World Report named UCLA the no. 1 public university for the sixth consecutive year...

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Category: California

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) Acceptance Rate (All Programs/All Years)

31.7%

Admitted

130 out of 410

6.3%

Waitlisted

26 out of 410

62%

Not Admitted

254 out of 410

Click here for our full Admission Statistics for this program including interview and acceptance notification dates, accepted GPAs, waitlist acceptance rate, demographics of accepted applicants, $ amount of scholarship awarded, and more...

Deleted member 29353 · Jan 22, 2024

Does anyone know when interview notifications come out?

Chris W · Jan 22, 2024

hanityjane said:
Does anyone know when interview notifications come out?

Looks like last year they started coming out March 11.

Deleted member 29353 · Jan 22, 2024

Chris W said:
Looks like last year they started coming out March 11.

Ok thank you! This wait is awful!

Chris W · Jan 22, 2024

hanityjane said:
Ok thank you! This wait is awful!

Yeah. Check out previous year's threads on UCLA in the meantime:

UCLA Film School

All FilmSchool.org discussion threads related to UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

www.filmschool.org

Be sure to log your application when you can as well to help others.

Application Database

A database of thousands of film school applications to calculate acceptance rates to film programs and the minimum GPAs, minimum SAT and GRE scores, experience of accepted applicants, and much more....

www.filmschool.org

Chris W · Jan 22, 2024

hanityjane said:
Ok thank you! This wait is awful!

While you wait ...what are your picks for the Oscars?

Oscars 2024 - Who will get nominated? What are your picks?

Nominations come out tomorrow! Who do you think will be nominated? Emma Stone better be for Poor Things. Should be nominated for best adapted screenplay too. What does everyone else think?

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scaldwellkerson · Jan 22, 2024

DJPorras89 said:
Hey all! Quick question! I received an email last night saying that they've been trying to reach me about supplemental materials for my application. They said the email they have been trying to contact me from is fgrad@tft.ucla.edu. They also told me to check my spam folder. They asked that I check my email and respond to it with the material requested by the date requested.

I've been staying on top of my emails (checking them several times daily) and looking through my spam folder pretty regularly, but I haven't seen anything at all. The email itself was from Amanda Kibiloski (who I looked up and found on their website listed as the Director of Admissions and Outreach) and I called and left a message for her at the phone number listed on the email.

Has anyone else gotten a similar email? It wasn't a personalized email but looked more like a form letter sent out. I'm just kinda nervous since the email implies there is a deadline to submit materials. I just have no idea what those materials might be since I haven't actually received anything from the email address they listed.

Any thoughts or insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

When I applied a few years back my interview notification was in my spam folder

iheartmfa · Feb 15, 2024

Chris W said:
Looks like last year they started coming out March 11.

Wait this is so comforting because I had been looking at the screenwriting UCLA forum, and they already had their interviews. YAY!!

Deleted member 29353 · Feb 15, 2024

iheartmfa said:
Wait this is so comforting because I had been looking at the screenwriting UCLA forum, and they already had their interviews. YAY!!

Yes screenwriting interviews are coming out and so are cinematography candidates as well. I wonder if anyone applied to the producers program?

alexxiate · Feb 22, 2024

iheartmfa said:
Since the app is due in two weeks, wanted to create this Great luck to everyone, we got this!!!! <3333

Has anyone heard back about interviews for Directing/Producting?

alexxiate · Feb 22, 2024

iheartmfa said:
Since the app is due in two weeks, wanted to create this Great luck to everyone, we got this!!!! <3333

Hi! Has anyone heard back about interviews?

DJPorras89 · Feb 22, 2024

I haven't heard anything about interviews for the Directing or Producing programs so far. Hopefully soon! I did see a post earlier in this thread that said most people (those applying for the Production MFA, anyway) didn't get their interviews until mid-March last year. Maybe that will be the case this year! Keeping my fingers crossed for everyone!

Deleted member 29353 · Feb 22, 2024

I have yet to hear anything!! I’ll update if I do

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