New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy founded in 1992 is a for profit film and acting school. It is situated in New York City. The founder of this school is Jerry Sherlock, who was a former film, television and theatre producer. Originally it was located at the Tribeca Film Center. Later NYFA moved to the former Tammany Hall building in Union Square In 1994,The university ( NYFA) offers master, bachelor, and associate degrees, and 1 and 2-year conservatory programs and short-term workshops in filmmaking, acting for film, photography, 3D animation, game design, producing, screenwriting, digital filmmaking, cinematography, documentary, broadcast journalism, musical theatre, music video, digital editing, graphic design, and illustration programs at various locations throughout the world. Basic philosophy of the university learning by doing approach.
Degree programs, workshops and locations
Film directing, film producing, screenwriting, cinematography, film editing, documentary filmmaking, acting, animation, photography, game design, musical theatre, graphic design, and illustration are the main program of this university. The location where these courses available are New York City Los Angeles, California next to Warner Bros. Studios Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - Based on the backlot of Village Roadshow Studios Sydney, Australia Abu Dhabi, UAE Cambridge, Massachusetts Disney Studios, Orlando, Florida South Beach, Florida Florence, Italy Paris, France Mumbai, India Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Beijing, China Shanghai, China Moscow, Russia Seoul, Korea Barcelona, Spain Amsterdam, Netherlands London, England
Partnerships
Since 2007, the New York Film Academy has been collaborating with museums and major art institutions to organize cultural and filmmaking education initiatives for teens and young adults. The Film Academy contributes resources in curriculum development, teaching staff, and equipment to deliver programs that teach students the creative art of the moving image, as well as the importance and value of all forms of art and the institutions that preserve, protect and display them. Following are the Partnering institutions of this academy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, it has corporate partnerships with
1. Rolling Stone Magazine and the New York Film Academy partnered together to offer a series of Rolling Stone Music Video Workshops throughout the year. The workshops immerse students in cinematography, directing, screenwriting, producing, and editing with students creating their own original music videos
2. In 2014, NASA and the New York Film Academy announced a new initiative that would enlist students to create original audiovisual materials to raise awareness about the development of the James Webb Space Telescope as part of the Academy’s STEAM initiative.
3. The New York Film Academy offers a series of ongoing Reeducation Workshops to our students that take place around the world. The workshops—overseen by RED Digital Cinema Camera Company’s certified instructors—are aimed at working professionals as well as those just starting out in their film careers to help them master the RED EPIC or DRAGON cameras.
4. Sony Animation and the New York Film Academy established a relationship to create a special acting workshop to train Sony animators to better understand the actor's process and appropriate character behavior. The animators were taught acting techniques, scene analysis and beat breakdown from the actor's perspective, as well as character development to enhance their overall visual storytelling abilities.
5. Time Warner Cable's Connect A Million Minds and the New York Film Academy partnered together at its Union Square headquarters. Students from East Side Community High School and Marte Valle Secondary School in the Lower East Side participated in a workshop to learn about the significance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills required in the film industry to bring movies to life.
6. The New York Jets and the New York Film Academy partnered together in 2012 to start a brand new hands-on Sports Photography Program.[19] The program offered two 16-week hands-on immersion workshops in Sports Photography and Sports Broadcasting for sports fans and aspiring media professionals in a real-world sports environment.
Faculty
Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University, AFI Conservatory, University of Southern California, Stanford University, Harvard University, Yale University and University of California Los Angeles. Notable faculty members include director Adam Nimoy, game designer Chris Swain, director Claude Kerven, screenwriterJim Jennewein, and actress Lynda Goodfriend.
FILM DEGREES
Film school students enrolled at the New York Film Academy’s NYC campus have the option of transferring their credits to NYFA’s Los Angeles campus for advanced standing in one of the following film degree programs.
1. Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Filmmaking
2. Master of Arts (MA) in Film & Media Production
3. Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Filmmaking
4. Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) in Filmmaking
