01 BFA · MFA
Film & Moving Image
Narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking.
Admissions open · Fall 2025
Make work that travels the world.
Luminary Institute is a Brooklyn academy where 1,200 students learn alongside working artists, engineers and storytellers — and ship ambitious work every term.
Spring shows open Friday
All studios · 6 PM · Free admission
1,240
Students enrolled
142
Faculty practitioners
31
International awards
92%
Graduate employment
Departments
Six programs. One campus.
Achievements
31 international awards. Zero compromise.
From Sundance to Apple Design Awards, our students and faculty are recognized for work that pushes form forward — and a culture that ships it.
- ★ Sundance Feature Selection — 2024
- ★ Apple Design Award — 2023
- ★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — 2023
- ★ MacArthur 'Genius' Grant — 2022
From our community
What students say.
"Luminary taught me that the question isn't whether your work is good enough — it's whether you're brave enough to start."
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Maya Chen
Documentary filmmaker · Sundance 2024
"I came in as a coder. I left as someone who knows how to make things people actually want."
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Lila Park
Product designer · Apple Design Award '23
"The mentors here are working at the top of their field, and they still answer your Slack at 11pm."
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Daniel Okafor
Novelist · Pulitzer finalist
Get in touch
Questions? Tour? Press?
We read every message and reply within one business day.
- hello@lumi-nary.edu
- Phone
- +1 (718) 555-0142
- Address
- 248 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222