Graduate Certificate - Documentary and Non-Fiction Media Production (DNM)

Seneca Polytechnic - Seneca at York Campus

In Documentary and Non-Fiction Media Production (DNM) one-year graduate certificate program, students will learn from a team of award-winning filmmakers and industry professionals and be immersed in rigorous, intensive, hands-on training in the art and craft of documentary filmmaking. Built on three pillars — creative, technical, industry — they will learn every aspect of documentary production, from story idea to pitching, shooting and editing, and market and distribution.

As a graduate of this program, students will be engaged in pre-production (research and development,) production (principal photography,) and post-production (editing) as they wear multiple hats as a director, producer, cinematographer and editor to make their first documentary film.

When students graduate from this program, these are the types of career options that they can explore:

• Independent filmmaker
• Content provider
• Impact producer