Graduate Certificate of Creative Industries
6 Months (1 Semester)
Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane - Australia
Postgraduate
With JMC Academy's Graduate Certificate of Creative Industries, understand how to connect creative works with audiences, and deep dive into the current state of the creative industries.
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Graduate Diploma of Creative Industries
1 Year (2 Semesters)
Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane - Australia
Postgraduate
Explore how you can use innovative ideas to push your creative work to new heights and deliver it to new audiences with a Graduate Diploma of Creative Industries.
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Master of Creative Industries
2 Years (4 Semesters)
Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane - Australia
Postgraduate
Focused on real-world production standards, JMC's postgraduate degrees in creative industries will give you the freedom to explore, create and apply your skills while developing your own concept into commercial reality.
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JMC Academy Postgraduate Courses
JMC Academy’s postgraduate courses are designed to shape creative leaders, offering a blend of practical knowledge, industry insight, and entrepreneurial spirit. With a focus on real-world standards, these programs help you grow your professional network, sharpen your creative mindset, and expand your skills in innovative and practical ways.
Our courses integrate creative practice with business strategy, preparing you to meet the ever-evolving needs of the creative industries while ensuring you stay ahead of industry trends.
Why Study JMC Academy Postgraduate Courses?
Our Lecturers
Dr. George Catsi
George is a national award-winning performance writer, performer, comic, academic, and producer overlapping film, theatre, health, and education. National AWGIE winner plus the winner of the Kit Denton Fellowship for courage & excellence in performance writing for his satirical evangelical comedy I Want to Be Slim. He has written and performed his comedic memoir show Am I Who I Say I Am? across 4 seasons. Co-created, wrote, and performed in satirical comedy cabaret trio Gods Cowboys that toured extensively in Australia.
In 2024, George was honoured as the Inner West Citizen of the Year.
George co-created and co-presents with Mandy Nolan - Authentic You masterclasses presented nationally exploring deep connection to our authentic voice and storytelling when presenting. A regarded speaker, presenter, and host – was invited to host the national show ABC Radio Sydney covering Christine Anu’s leave.
As an academic George brings a wealth of real-world and teaching experience to the JMC Masters of Creative Industries. At UTS he has taught in Design Thinking, Animation, Media Arts, and Communications facilitating creative, innovative and entrepreneurial outcomes. His PhD explored persuasive performance and selling of truth by evangelicals against a background of satire. Amongst others was EP/owner Flickerfest International Short Film Festival + EP / visioned health TV channel – RPAtv (shortlisted NSW Premiers Award). As a media producer, he has produced/directed/written numerous educational and corporate films as well as worked in design for TV.
He has presented on topics including Creativity; Perceptions of Evil and Human Wickedness; Satire; and National Identity (he thinks they might all be the same thing).
Selection juror for short film festivals Flickerfest and the Dendys (Australia) and for 33rd International Emmy Awards plus more. His installation/projection art (range of exhibitions and events) counterpoints place and space, displacing people through humour or juxtaposed imagery.
Dr. George Catsi
George is a national award-winning performance writer, performer, comic, academic, and producer overlapping film, theatre, health, and education. National AWGIE winner plus the winner of the Kit Denton Fellowship for courage & excellence in performance writing for his satirical evangelical comedy I Want to Be Slim. He has written and performed his comedic memoir show Am I Who I Say I Am? across 4 seasons. Co-created, wrote, and performed in satirical comedy cabaret trio Gods Cowboys that toured extensively in Australia.
In 2024, George was honoured as the Inner West Citizen of the Year.
George co-created and co-presents with Mandy Nolan - Authentic You masterclasses presented nationally exploring deep connection to our authentic voice and storytelling when presenting. A regarded speaker, presenter, and host – was invited to host the national show ABC Radio Sydney covering Christine Anu’s leave.
As an academic George brings a wealth of real-world and teaching experience to the JMC Masters of Creative Industries. At UTS he has taught in Design Thinking, Animation, Media Arts, and Communications facilitating creative, innovative and entrepreneurial outcomes. His PhD explored persuasive performance and selling of truth by evangelicals against a background of satire. Amongst others was EP/owner Flickerfest International Short Film Festival + EP / visioned health TV channel – RPAtv (shortlisted NSW Premiers Award). As a media producer, he has produced/directed/written numerous educational and corporate films as well as worked in design for TV.
He has presented on topics including Creativity; Perceptions of Evil and Human Wickedness; Satire; and National Identity (he thinks they might all be the same thing).
Selection juror for short film festivals Flickerfest and the Dendys (Australia) and for 33rd International Emmy Awards plus more. His installation/projection art (range of exhibitions and events) counterpoints place and space, displacing people through humour or juxtaposed imagery.
Dr. Ulrike Sturm
Ulrike Sturm has a strong record as a lecturer in creative industries at a post-graduate level. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including TEXT Journal and MC Journal, and she is also on the peer review panel of several international journals in the field of creative industries and the visual arts. Her work as a visual artist is regularly exhibited in regional and commercial galleries, and is held in public collections in Australia and internationally. Ulrike Sturm is a member of NAVA and the Print Council of Australia.
Dr. Ulrike Sturm
Ulrike Sturm has a strong record as a lecturer in creative industries at a post-graduate level. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including TEXT Journal and MC Journal, and she is also on the peer review panel of several international journals in the field of creative industries and the visual arts. Her work as a visual artist is regularly exhibited in regional and commercial galleries, and is held in public collections in Australia and internationally. Ulrike Sturm is a member of NAVA and the Print Council of Australia.
Dr. Jeff Crabtree
Dr Jeff Crabtree is a researcher, author, speaker, songwriter and music producer with 100 composition and production credits in commercial music and music for Television. He has won awards for songwriting and production. Some of his music was heard underscoring the 2000 Sydney Olympics and some of his work currently fly around the world on a major airline. He has performed live on and off for many years playing original blues tunes. He is co-author of the independently published book Living With A Creative Mind and consults to organizations in Australia and overseas on the best ways to manage creative thinkers and build environments that foster innovation through his company Zebra Collective. He teaches in the Masters of Creative Industries Degree at JMC Academy (in Sydney). His PhD was awarded for researching the nature and extent of workplace harassment in the contemporary music industries. in 2023 he won both a Vice Chancellor's award for Teaching and Learning Excellence at UTS and the Dean's award for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS.
Dr. Jeff Crabtree
Dr Jeff Crabtree is a researcher, author, speaker, songwriter and music producer with 100 composition and production credits in commercial music and music for Television. He has won awards for songwriting and production. Some of his music was heard underscoring the 2000 Sydney Olympics and some of his work currently fly around the world on a major airline. He has performed live on and off for many years playing original blues tunes. He is co-author of the independently published book Living With A Creative Mind and consults to organizations in Australia and overseas on the best ways to manage creative thinkers and build environments that foster innovation through his company Zebra Collective. He teaches in the Masters of Creative Industries Degree at JMC Academy (in Sydney). His PhD was awarded for researching the nature and extent of workplace harassment in the contemporary music industries. in 2023 he won both a Vice Chancellor's award for Teaching and Learning Excellence at UTS and the Dean's award for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS.
Dr. Jodie Rottle
Dr Jodie Rottle (she/her) is a creative flautist, researcher, lecturer, composer, and improviser who works with the nonhuman to explore new sound concepts. She is a member of the two-time Queensland Music Award-winning Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra and often collaborates with artists across circus, spoken word, puppetry, visual art, and physical performance mediums. Committed to the creation and performance of new music, Jodie has commissioned over 45 new classical and experimental works—many by emerging composers—and performed nationally across Australia and the United States. Jodie is currently the Resident Adjunct with the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University, and she is a sessional lecturer. When she’s not making music, she can most often be found bouldering and hanging out with her dog Stanlee Woofington.
Dr. Jodie Rottle
Dr Jodie Rottle (she/her) is a creative flautist, researcher, lecturer, composer, and improviser who works with the nonhuman to explore new sound concepts. She is a member of the two-time Queensland Music Award-winning Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra and often collaborates with artists across circus, spoken word, puppetry, visual art, and physical performance mediums. Committed to the creation and performance of new music, Jodie has commissioned over 45 new classical and experimental works—many by emerging composers—and performed nationally across Australia and the United States. Jodie is currently the Resident Adjunct with the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University, and she is a sessional lecturer. When she’s not making music, she can most often be found bouldering and hanging out with her dog Stanlee Woofington.
Dr. Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
Georgia is an Australian film producer/ director who has collaborated on numerous documentaries, dramas, and television series since graduating from Swinburne (VCA) Film School. She has directed or produced films including CULTIVATING MURDER (feature doc SBS 2018) on land clearing and the murder of an environment officer. Currently working on follow up film about the threatened extinction of koalas. She is a Doctor of Creative Arts from University of Wollongong, where she produced a multi-screen video installation for galleries, The Earth and the Elements (2016), which explored the China-Australia resources export relationship and the concept of interconnectedness, using Chinese philosophy of Daoism as a conceptual framework. She has been a selector, film festival judge, and programmer.
Dr. Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
Georgia is an Australian film producer/ director who has collaborated on numerous documentaries, dramas, and television series since graduating from Swinburne (VCA) Film School. She has directed or produced films including CULTIVATING MURDER (feature doc SBS 2018) on land clearing and the murder of an environment officer. Currently working on follow up film about the threatened extinction of koalas. She is a Doctor of Creative Arts from University of Wollongong, where she produced a multi-screen video installation for galleries, The Earth and the Elements (2016), which explored the China-Australia resources export relationship and the concept of interconnectedness, using Chinese philosophy of Daoism as a conceptual framework. She has been a selector, film festival judge, and programmer.
The ultimate benefit of studying at JMC Academy is the reassurance and relief in knowing that we are leaders in creative industries education and have been delivering quality education in the Creative Industries for over 30 years. We were the first to be accredited in Australia for education in Audio Engineering, Digital Television and Multimedia.
Our courses have always been practical, with hands-on projects and an intense focus on industry and outcomes undiluted by extensive, non-essential electives.
In choosing to study at JMC Academy, our students are opting for the benefits of an intimate classroom size where the lecturer knows their name and learning needs. They are choosing to learn at an award-winning institution that fosters collaboration and creative vision. At JMC Academy the student's experience becomes an integral part of their learning and the institution's own values defined by quality, integrity, diligence and innovation indelibly become their own.