Earn your MFA in Production Design and take your filmmaking career to the next level. AFI Production Designers spend two years immersed in honing their craft, from designing and building innovative sets to learning cutting-edge technological tools that bring their vision to life. As part of the production design curriculum, AFI Production Designers collaborate on at least three narrative short films in their first year of courses and in their second year, they focus on designing a thesis film production and an original portfolio of design work which is displayed at the annual AFI Conservatory Production Design industry showcase.
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Erin Magill (AFI Class of 2012)
Esmé Jackson (Class of 2020)
Javiera Varas (AFI Class of 2006)
Erik Louis Robert (AFI Class of 2014) and Juli Kunke (AFI Class of 2014)
David Moreau (AFI Class of 2006) and Shamim Seifzadeh (AFI Class of 2013)
Brittany Bradford (AFI Class of 2010), Harshita Reddy (AFI Class of 2017), Katia Nájera Viale (AFI Class of 2018); and Randall Wilkins (AFI Class of 1984),
Todd Jeffery (AFI Class of 2003)
Theresa Guleserian (AFI Class of 2006)
Priscilla Elliott (AFI Class of 2001)
Rhea Solanki (AFI Class of 2020)
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“One of the great things about AFI was having teachers who were working in the industry. A connection with one of my teachers at AFI led to my first job as an art department assistant on MAD MEN. That was a well-oiled, exceptional art department. I learned a great deal – how the roles are supposed to interact and work with one another – and got into the union that way.”
-Erin Magill (AFI Class of 2012), Production Designer