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What Type Of Film Student Are You? For 22 years the Motion Picture Institute has been offering a cost and time-effective career path into the movie industry. For many, MPI offers a sensible alternative to costly four-year degree programs;...

MPI Alumni, Heidi Philipsen (Class of 2007), launches the kick-off of her feature film, "LOVE & VODKA."   A team of native Michiganders and University of Michigan alumni have partnered with the Ann Arbor Distilling...

MPI Welcomes its Newest Faculty Member: Ric Viers Meet Ric Viers, MPI's newest Professor. Ric will be teaching Field Audio Recording and Production Lab 1 this coming Fall.       Ric Viers is a producer,...

Golden Hour for Golden-Oldie Cars MPI Honors Dream Cruisers at  Berkley's CruiseFest - August 16, 2019  A one-hour parade of nearly 200 classics--edited into 29 minutes! What began in 1995 as a local...

We are very pleased to welcome, Kevin Walsh, to the MPI team as our new Director of Enrollment & Marketing.   Together with MPI’s, Elise Mansour, Kevin will help brand and evolve the institute on local, national, and...

The Lost Art Of The Professional Courtesy    In most film schools, well the better one's anyway, they devote time to career development by addressing the question, ‘How do I go about finding work and making a career for...

To The Moon: MPI Grad Screens @ Sundance and lands in IMAX Theaters with Apollo 11 When we think of hitting it big in the film festival circuit we think of the  SUNANCE FILM FESTIVAL in Park City, Utah. When we think of making it to the big...

The Law & Order of Lighting with MPI's Jeremy Schroeder This week the CEO and Founder of Motion Picture Institute , Doug Schulze, had a chance to sit down and interview Jeremy Schroeder. Jeremy has worked at MPI for 9 years as the...

Motion picture Institute graduate, Ashray Dravidian (class of 2014), was featured on "The Indian Scene's" website for his new project entitled 'The Scream in Silence.' The story follows a story of the Holocaust and is dedicated...

Sam Kadi is a 2007 graduate of the Motion Picture Institute. Upon graduating from MPI, Sam has worked as a Director.     He directed the Cary Elwes-starrter The Citizen (2012) and the documentary Little Ghandi (2016), is attached to...

Monsterpalooza 2019: Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis: Nosferatu In 1992, a decade before Michigan took a great interest in film with tax credits and film incentives, and the growing accessibility of digital film technology that makes it even more...

Motion Picture Institute: The MOST Referred Film School   It's always something special when an MPI student, such as Shane Hillier, takes the time to write his instructors simply to say, "Thankyou for creating a 'fantastic...

CONGRATULATIONS to MPI Grad, Amber- Dawn Smith, who worked as Script Supervisor for the Visual FX Unit that won the Academy Award for FIRST MAN.      Amber Harley- Smith was born in Lapeer, Michigan on April 7th,...

MPI graduate, Bradley Egrin, realizes his dream of creating a comedy webseries entitled, "The Dragnet of Spies."  The series follows      “Our school, being small, doesn’t have the normal...

The Movie Business Is the Entrepreneur Business    The Movie Business is the Entrepreneur Business, and if you are a Filmmaker or Actor make no mistake: You are an Entrepreneur. What is an Entrepreneur? The definition of an...

Kris Kaczor, a 2003 MPI graduate, kickstarts his very own feature documentary titled, “SuAnne Big Crow: The Hero In High Tops.”       The abstract of the documentary is the story of a young girl from the...

  Join us in welcoming Film Composer & Post Sound Designer,   David Baetman, to the MPI team.      David will be helming an Audio Post / Sound Design class. David has gathered an impressive resume as...

WOMEN IN FILM Shelly Chopra Dhar attended the Motion Picture Institute and graduated having successfully completed the schools intensive one year motion picture production program. For the last few years, Shelly has been developing a project...

    MPI Instructor and certified drone operator Joshua Bowren     During the Super Bowl 53 Halftime the lanterns you saw flying in the air, were actually 150 drones. The...