FILM TV 433

Writing Short Screenplays

Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)

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Limited to and required of first-year MFA production program students. Conception, development, and writing of six-minute dramatic film script to be produced in courses 410A, 410B, 410C.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

UCLA lists no requisites for this course.

Requires

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Nothing — this is an entry point.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

FILM TV 433

FILM TV 402AAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshop
- FILM TV 402BAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshop
  - FILM TV 402CAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshopanother path to it
- FILM TV 402CAdvanced Narrative Directing Workshop
FILM TV C403AAdvanced Documentary Workshop
FILM TV C403BAdvanced Documentary Workshop
FILM TV C403CAdvanced Documentary Workshop
FILM TV 404AAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshop
- FILM TV 404CAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshop
FILM TV 404BAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshop
- FILM TV 404CAdvanced Abstract/Experimental Media Workshopanother path to it

6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 11 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.