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New York Film Academy

{{Short description|Private film and acting school in the US}}

{{Use American English|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox university

| name = New York Film Academy (NYFA)

| image = Nyfa-logo-2023-rebrand.png

| image_size = 180px

| image_alt = New York Film Academy

| caption = College of Visual and Performings Arts

| motto = The most hands-on intensive programs in the world

| established = 1992

| type = Private for-profit film school and acting school

| president = Michael J. Young

| academic_staff = 400+

| students = 5,000 per year

| city = New York City, New York

| campus = New York City, New York; Los Angeles, California; South Beach, Florida; Gold Coast, Australia; Florence, Italy

| free_label = Other campuses

| free = Paris, France; Moscow, Russia; Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; Almaty, Kazakhstan

| colors = {{color box | black}} {{color box | white}} {{color box | cyan}} {{color box | magenta}} {{color box | yellow}} Black, White, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow

| other_name = NYFA

| website = {{official website|https://www.nyfa.edu|nyfa.edu}}

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New York Film Academy – School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a private for-profit film school and acting school based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television and theater producer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922522,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302160042/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922522,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 2, 2009 |title=Lo and Hum as Ho and Hum |date=1981-03-30 |magazine=Time |first=T.E. |last=Kalem |author2=Peter Ainslie |access-date=2008-03-27 |quote=...first-time Producer Jerry Sherlock, an ex-fabric broker from Seventh Avenue }} It was originally located at the Tribeca Film Center. In 1994, NYFA moved to 100 East 17th Street, the former Tammany Hall building in the Union Square. After 23 years of occupancy, the academy relocated from Tammany Hall to 17 Battery Place.{{cite web|url=http://bedfordandbowery.com/2015/10/film-school-and-theater-clear-out-of-tammany-hall-ahead-of-retail-makeover/|title=Film School and Theater Clear Out of Tammany Hall Ahead of Retail Makeover|date=October 2015 }}

As of 2012, the school has 400+ employees{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/company/new-york-film-academy/|title=New York Film Academy}} and over 5,000 students per year (many of them from outside the United States).Rice, Andrew. [https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2016/05/how-the-new-york-film-academy-discovered-gold-in-the-developing-world-048278 "How the New York Film Academy discovered gold in the developing world,"] Politico (April 16, 2012). NYFA offers master, bachelor, and associate degrees, as well as one- and two-year conservatory programs, short-term workshops, and youth programs and summer camps.{{cite news |last=Shand |first=Laura |date=2012-10-01 |title=New York Film Academy studying abroad |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/study-abroad/what-is-it-about-the-new-york-film-academy-8192141.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/student/study-abroad/what-is-it-about-the-new-york-film-academy-8192141.html |archive-date=2022-06-18}}

History

The college was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television, and theatre producer. Originally located at the Tribeca Film Center, NYFA moved to 100 East 17th Street, the former Tammany Hall building in Union Square in 1994. After 23 years of occupancy, the college relocated from Tammany Hall to 17 Battery Place in 2015, where the school currently resides.

Academics

NYFA offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, certificates, and workshops. It is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.

File:NYFA-Downtown.jpg in Downtown Manhattan near Battery Park]]

File:LA-NYFA.jpg, next to Warner Brothers]]

NYFA's disciplines of study include filmmaking, Producing, Screenwriting, Cinematography, Digital editing, Documentary Filmmaking, Acting for Film, 3D Animation and Visual Effects, Entertainment Media, Photography, Game Design, Musical Theater and Virtual Reality, as well as an English as a second language program that aims to combine traditional language learning with activities related to the arts. In 2007, NYFA partnered with NBC News to start a program in Broadcast Journalism. In 2010 the contract between NYFA and NBC expired, but the broadcast journalism programs at NYFA continue to be offered by many of the original faculty. NYFA degree programs, workshops, and short-term courses are held around the world. Summer workshops are offered at Harvard University. International locations include Australia, Florence, Paris, Kazakhstan, Beijing, and Shanghai. Other international locations are offered at various times of the year.

Partnerships

Since 2007, NYFA has collaborated with museums and major art institutions to organize cultural and filmmaking education initiatives for teens and young adults. Since 2010, the New York Film Academy has partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Working closely with each individual institution, 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. The partnering institutions include:

  • Brooklyn Museum, 2007{{cite web|title=Brooklyn Museum Gallery/Studio Program Announces Registration for Fall Semester 2007|url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press/uploads/GalleryStudio_Press_Release_Sept_2007.pdf}}
  • Whitney Museum, 2009{{cite web|title=TEEN TAKES ON THE BIENNIAL|url=http://whitney.org/Education/Teens/ForTheRecord/FreshPerspectives|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731001312/http://whitney.org/Education/Teens/ForTheRecord/FreshPerspectives|archive-date=2013-07-31}}
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010–current{{cite web|title=Summer Intensive—Art and Film: A Hands-on Digital Filmmaking Workshop|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/teen-programs/art-workshops/summer-intensive?eid=R001_%7bD144596D-F93A-4A7C-9CEB-E035475773CD%7d_20120709100000}}
  • 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyfa.edu/nyfa-news/nyfa-nasa.php#.Wt3-W4jwaUl|title=NYFA Collaborates with NASA on Telescope {{!}} New York Film Academy|website=www.nyfa.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-23}}
  • The New York Film Academy offered a series of ongoing REDucation Workshops in partnership with RED Digital Cinema Camera Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyfa.edu/filmmaking/reducation.php|title=New York Film Academy - REDucation - Red Camera Training|website=www.nyfa.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-23}}
  • 10 ARTS Foundation

NYFA founded 10 ARTS Foundation, a nonprofit organization that offers scholarship and funding opportunities for storytellers. The public can volunteer with the organization, donate to a program or educational project.

10 ARTS has NYFA Alliances with National Geographic, TheMET, BAFTA, NASA, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Writers Guild Foundation, Warner Brothers, USAID, National Coalition Against Censorshop, The Hilaria & Alec Baldwin Foundation, USO, TEDx, MultiChoice, Alexandra Skiba Memorial Scholarship, Tribeca Film Festival, AT&T, New York Public Library, Inter-American Development Bank, Fulbright, and more.

The Board of Trustees includes journalist and filmmaker Tony Harris, and film/TV producer Shkh. Al-Zain S. Al-Sabah, Jack McColgan, and Heidi Wissmiller.

Notable faculty

NYFA draws faculty who are active, working professionals in their fields, many of whom are award winners or have formerly taught at such prestigious institutions as 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyfa.edu/film_school/about_us/faculty.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080821172051/http://www.nyfa.edu/film_school/about_us/faculty.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-08-21 |title=Academic background NYFA teachers |publisher=New York Film Academy }}

Notable faculty members have included SAG Award-winning actor Matthew Modine, BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond BSC, ASC, actor Bill Duke, writer Heather Hach, director Nag Ashwin, actress Brenda Vaccaro, actor Louis Gossett Jr., actress and musical theater performer Kristy Cates, director Adam Nimoy, game designer Chris Swain, screenwriter Jim Jennewein, actress Lynda Goodfriend, and actor/director Michael Zelniker.

Notable alumni

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