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This Masters in Film Curation offers you the opportunity to explore film curation in a variety of theoretical, historical and practical contexts. It investigates the material qualities of audio-visual media and explores the history and contemporary practice of projection and exhibition. In the core courses and beyond, we encourage you to adopt ethical academic and professional approaches and pay close attention to issues of identity, power, and access in your work. Throughout the programme youll get to work alongside industry-leading experts in film curation through workshops and placements, and youll be encouraged to respond creatively in both academic and practical exercises. Industry experts offering work placements and seminars represent organisations and festivals such as the National Library of Scotlands Moving Image Archive, Alchemy Film and Arts, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Africa in Motion Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival. You will have access to the learning and archive facilities at the Kelvin Hall. You will be studying in Glasgow, one of the leading media cities in the UK and home to an extraordinary wealth of film festivals. You will be based at our Gilmorehill Centre which has its own cinema as well as extensive collection of video, DVD and digital resources. The Gilmorehill Centre is home to the international journal 'Screen' and hosts the annual Screen conference every summer, attracting leading names in film and television studies from across the world.The MSc is designed for those with some background in film, television, media or communication studies (or related fields, such as art history) who are contemplating, or developing, a career in curation, community and educational projects, events, research or criticism. The programme is designed to provide you with a range of skills that will enable you to develop as: a creative and cultural entrepreneur, an outreach officer in a museum, archive or gallery, a curator or programmer for cinemas, film festivals, museums, or other exhibition spaces, a researcher for the film and television industries, a creative practitioner, an academic researcher.