FILM TV 433Writing Short Screenplays
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
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.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
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 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
6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 11 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.