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Bring your vision to life on screen
Our primary postgraduate offering is the Master of Cinematic Arts, which offers a unique capacity for undertaking research and practical work in your chosen discipline of Animation, Film/Screen Production or Games.
Throughout your program of study, you will produce creative works in collaboration with your peers and where applicable, with external partners and stakeholders.
Master of Cinematic Arts outcomes
Mary Duong
Master of Screen Production graduate Mary Duong is using her skills developed in the postgraduate degree to create meaningful productions, like the nine-episode queer web series, Two Weeks.
Two Weeks
Students and graduates combine theory and practice to create projects like Two Weeks – a Brisbane-based web-series exploring what it means to be young, queer, and uncertain.
Morgan Healy
Master of Screen Production graduate Morgan Healy won the 2017 Australian Director’s Guild award for Best Student Direction for his short film Disabused.
Master of Cinematic Arts
Study at Griffith Film School with its world class facilities of high-end equipment and studios. Engage in research and professional development towards innovation and career acceleration in your chosen field, including studio projects supervised by discipline leads and where applicable, industry partners. Build industry connections through networking events, industry placements, artists-in-residence master classes and mentorship programs, as well as international and domestic study tours. Be introduced to research methods that will deepen your understanding of your own practice, and inform your strategies and approaches as a professional practitioner.
Research and postgraduate study options
Whether you're beginning your research study or continuing at a higher level, our degrees provide a unique opportunity to follow a specific interest in a particular research area.
The PhD is Griffith’s premier research training degree. It is awarded for a thesis (or a series of published papers), drafted under supervision, which makes an original, significant, and extensive contribution to knowledge and understanding in your field of study.
This degree can offer you formal recognition for your work if you are an established researcher and do not already hold a doctoral level qualification.
Specialist Masters by Research
These specialist degrees combine coursework with professional and/or artistic practice.
Graduate Certificates
Graduate Certificates provide graduates from all professional disciplines with a solid understanding of their choses visual arts field. They provide a comprehensive foundation for future postgraduate study. At the completion of a Graduate Certificate, artists, photographers, designers and filmmakers emerge with a richness of experience and cross-disciplinary skills.
Research study abroad
International students currently enrolled in a research degree in a university overseas may undertake a research project at Griffith University for one to three semesters, under the research study abroad program.
You’ll be able to study in any research area, provided supervision and resources are available. Credit gained at Griffith is transferred toward the degree at your home institution, with that institution’s agreement.
Identifying HDR supervisors
Applicants are expected to identify at least two possible supervisors in their application for admission.
HDR scholarships
We offer a range of generous scholarship programs that can cover tuition fees, living allowances paid as stipends, relocation and publication assistance. Scholarships are offered to domestic and international doctorate or masters by research applicants in two competitive application rounds each year.
Student resources
Griffith Graduate Research School ( GGRS ) is a dedicated point of contact for all higher degree research candidates at the University. GGRS works in collaboration with Academic Groups, Research Centres and Institutes to create a rewarding and supportive research environment for HDR candidates.
Research contacts
Griffith Graduate Research School (GGRS)
HDR admission, candidature or scholarships
Free call: 1800 303 603 (within Australia)