In what way is coding related to the Film Industry?

Apart from making movies, a production house is responsible for distribution and marketing as well. There are ERP systems that create orders with theaters and home entertainment networks to distribute movies. Data warehouse systems determine which is the target market and reach that is required to make movies from different genres profitable. All this is run by software. Although this may not be creatively linked with movie making but is a very crucial and essential part of the movie industry today.

Film is shot digitally, processed digitally and distributed digitally. It does not matter which program is used, code is king. Code runs it all today from the camera to the theater.

While I don't work in the film industry, I do know that software engineering plays a huge part in the creation of most movies today. Obviously any movie with special visual effects uses software to a large extent to render the graphics and in production pipelines. Even movies without explicit visual effects will need software processing because more and more movies are shot digitally and the video files need post-processing. Companies like Pixar and Industrial Light and Magic develop custom software continuously in order to push the state-of-the-art in movie effects.

For visual effects you should have a sub-focus on graphics and 3D modeling in your course studies. There are many good open-source programs, such as Blender, which you can use today to learn graphics and 3D work. There are also many blogs and podcasts related to film production that might give you a better idea how software is used in the field. Good luck!

All those after effects that you see on the movies are created using computer software. So you can specialize on those areas.