Dec 06, 2025  
Workforce Development & Community Education 
    
Workforce Development & Community Education

CE-FILM 2053 - Directing for Film



An introductory course designed to teach students the fundamental elements of film directing in a safe and nurturing environment. Taught by award-winning director/screenwriter and founder of Forgotten Artist Productions Michael Thomas Cain. Michael teaches his experience in script analysis, visual storytelling, rehearsing with actors before and during shoots, creating storyboards and shot lists during pre-production, and technical aspects of filmmaking like lighting, camera, and sound during production. Recommended reading: Kazan, Elia. Kazan on Directing. Vintage, 2010. ISBN 9780307277046; and Mamet, David. On Directing Film. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 9780140127225

Location Valhalla