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Find out more information on Screen Academy Scotland, courses on offer at the academy and information on our network of Screen and Media Academies.
Skillset Academy Network
Skillset's Media and Screen Academy Networks allow education and industry to work together throughout the UK to produce leaders of the future in creative media worldwide.
In Scotland, we have 2 Skillset Academies: one media and one screen academy.
Screen Academy Scotland (SAS), based at the new Merchiston Avenue production centre at Napier University, is a collaboration between the university and Edinburgh College of Art (eca). The Academy brings together Napier and eca's existing and new post-graduate programmes in the creative, craft and business skills of film-making. On offer will also be a range of short courses and continuing professional development opportunities.
The Skillset Screen Academies are institutions which the UK film industry sees as offering the highest quality of skills training for film.
What courses are available at Screen Academy Scotland?
The core programmes offered by the Academy at Napier are:
- MA Screen Project Development
- MA Screenwriting
- PG Cert online Screenwriting
- MFA Advanced Film Practice
The core programmes offered by the Academy at Edinburgh College of Art are:
- MA in Directing (Fiction)
- MA in Directing (Documentary)
- MA in Editing
- MA in Animation
Contact: Screen Academy Scotland

