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Academic programs - Masters of Arts Degree in Screenwriting

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Application Deadlines

The CTVA Department admits graduate students annually in the fall semester. Applications are accepted from November 1 to February 11 for the following fall semester entering graduate class. We no longer offer spring admissions. This deadline is intended to ensure the university has time to process application materials, and students have time to pursue financial aid and register for classes. Special late application circumstances will be considered on a case by case basis.

For additional information:

Graduate Advisor
Department of Cinema and Television Arts
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8317
Phone: (818) 677-7486

Email Graduate Advisor
gradscreenwriter@csun.edu

GRADUATE SCREENWRITING FACULTY

	Eric Edson MFA (2), UCLA, The American Film Institute Graduate Program Coordinator Eric has written on assignment 17 feature film and TV movie screenplays including Lethal Vows, The Rose and the Jackal, Diving In, The Soggy Bottom Gang, and Uncaged Heart. He has also written for episodic TV. He is author of the best-selling book THE STORY SOLUTION: 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take, soon also to be published in Chinese.
	Alexis Krasilovsky MFA, Cal Arts Film Director/Producer: End of the Art World starring Andy Worhol, award-winning What Memphis Needs, Exile, Women Behind the Camera [2007 Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the Moondance International Film Festival]; author of Women Behind the Camera, Some Women Writers Kill Themselves, articles.
	Kenneth Portnoy Ph.D, NYU Screenwriter and author of the books Screen Adaptation, and Fundamental Building Blocks of Screenwriting; episodic TV writer including Quincy, Fantasy Island.
	Jared Rappaport MFA, The American Film Institute Co-writer, co-producer, and co-director of the Showtime feature film Fathers and Sons, and co-writer, co-producer of the feature Blindness. Writer for the TV series Family Medical Center, Days of Our Lives, and Early On.
	Jon Stahl MFA, UCLA Screenwriter, whose scripts have been optioned by producers such as David Foster, Cari-Esta Albert and Meg Ryan’s Prufrock Pictures.
	James Jennewein In his 23rd year as a working screenwriter, Jim has survived hundreds of Hollywood pitch meetings and has co-written and sold 21 feature screenplays to companies such as Touchstone, Warner Brothers, 20th Fox, Paramount, Universal, Disney, Interscope, Columbia Pictures, NBC and others. His produced credits include The Flintstones (exec produced by Steven Spielberg), Richie Rich, Major League II, Getting Even With Dad, and Stay Tuned.
	Scott Sturgeon