If you have completed a Bachelor’s Degree in film or a related field, have a wealth of experience in film composing and wish to expand your knowledge and skills, enroll for Montage, a 3-year follow-up Master’s Program at FAMU.

You will master montage as a natural way of your artistic expression and you will stand side by side with the director as his creative partner. You will have the expert ability and skills to solve various issues in composing sound and image. You will be able to approach the editing of an audiovisual work in a comprehensive manner, respecting and developing the director’s vision and the nature of the work in progress in a creative manner while using contemporary art and technology trends. You will get film editing into your blood, the montage will become your way of thinking.

The core of the program is intensive work in workshops always led by active professional film editors, capable of conveying their current working experience and a theoretical view of film editing to students. There is never more than six students in each workshop, which allows for providing an individualized approach to each of the students.

The program covers all types of audiovisual creation (film, TV, new media). Aside from Avid, DaVinci and ProTools software, you will get an opportunity to work with the physical analog film on a Steenbeck flatbed editor for both 16mm and 35mm films. FAMU provides the amenities of a comprehensively equipped film studio (Studio FAMU – the official production house of FAMU) and two high-end screening rooms with both analog projectors and a 4K projector for both post-production and teaching screenings.

Programme Overview: 

• INVIDUAL MENTORING BY INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS: The core of the program is intensive work in workshops led by active professional film editors, capable of conveying their current working experience and a theoretical view of film editing to students. There are never more than six students in each workshop, which allows for providing an individualized approach to each of the students.
• MASTERCLASSES AND WORKSHOPS WITH ACCLAIMED FILMMAKERS: As a student of FAMU you will get chance to meet industry leading professionals and acclaimed filmmakers. FAMU is a place where tradition meets contemporary trends. The future belongs to you.
• TRADITION, INNOVATION AND CREATIVE COMMUNITY: By enrolling at FAMU you will tap the growing environment of international study programs with access to an entire ecosystem of optional courses outside the range offered by the Montage track. You will encounter, mutually inspire and work with colleagues from around the world studying international programs as well as Czech students from FAMU departments.