New York Film Academy

New York Film Academy

Film School and Acting School
Motto	The most hands-on intensive programs in the world
Type	Private
Established	1992
President	Jerry Sherlock
Provost	Michael J. Young
Academic staff	400 +
Students	6,000 per year
Location	100 East 17th Street Union Square , NY , U.S.
Campus	Urban
Colors	Red and Black
Nickname	NYFA
Website	www.nyfa.edu

New York Film Academy - School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is an international film school and acting school based in New York City. The NY Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television and theatre producer. It was originally located at the Tribeca Film Center. In 1994, NYFA moved to the former Tammany Hall building in Union Square.

As of 2012, the school has 400+ employees and over 6,000 students per year. NYFA offers master's, bachelor's, and associate's degrees, as well as 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 and digital editing programs at various locations throughout the world.

The New York Film Academy's philosophy is based on a "learning by doing" approach with intensive, hands-on training. NYFA founder Jerry Sherlock explained to the New York Times in 2005 that he opened the school after hearing interest from parents and older relatives of aspiring young filmmakers, and that he wanted to focus on practical experience.

Degree programs, workshops and locations

NYFA building Union Square.

NYFA's programs include film directing, film producing, screenwriting, cinematography, film editing, documentary filmmaking and courses in acting. In 2007 NYFA partnered with NBC News to start a program in digital journalism. In 2010 the contract between NYFA and NBC expired, but the Broadcast Journalism programs at NYFA continue to be offered with many of the original faculty. The NYFA Degree Programs, Workshops and Short-term courses are held in the following locations:

• New York City^*
• Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California^*
• Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - Based on the backlot of Village Roadshow Studios adjacent to Warner Bros. Movie World
• Abu Dhabi, UAE^*
• Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Disney Studios, Orlando, Florida
• Florence, Italy
• Paris, France
• Mumbai, India
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Beijing, China
• Shanghai, China
• Moscow, Russia
• Seoul, Korea

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 New York Film Academy's partnership with the world renown Metropolitan Museum of Art is in its 3rd year. 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. Partnering institutions include:

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010-current
• Brooklyn Museum, 2007
• Whitney Museum, 2009

Corporate partnerships

• Sony Animation approached the New York Film Academy 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.
• Time Warner Cable Connect A Million Minds partnered with the New York Film Academy 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.
• The New York Jets and the New York Film Academy have partnered together to start a brand new hands-on Sports Photography Program. The program will offer 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.

Scholarships

Film or Acting School students who demonstrate financial need can qualify to receive up to $15,000 for NYFA's one year, two year, or MFA programs. Applicants are required to show a credible need for financial assistance through documentation, as well as submit a personal statement explaining why they would like to attend the New York Film Academy. To date the New York Film Academy has donated over a million dollars in the form of scholarships to the New York City Department of Education.

Degree partnerships

The New York Film Academy works with a number of universities to allow students to earn bachelor's degrees in conjunction with courses taken at NYFA. These include:

• The New School, New York
• St. John's University, New York
• Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey
• Charter Oak State College, Connecticut
• Nova Southeastern University, Florida
• Lynn University, Florida
• Antioch University, Los Angeles

Faculty

NYFA draws teachers from the 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 guest lectures

Many film and television industry professionals have spoken at New York Film Academy. They include:

Steven Spielberg, director Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor Doug Liman, actor, producer Ben Stiller, actor Kevin Spacey, actor Sir Ben Kingsley, actor Glenn Close, actress Paul Schrader, writer, director Dennis Hopper, actor Ron Howard, director, actor Holly Hunter, actress Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor Josh Brolin, actor Jonah Hill, actor Jon Favreau, actor, writer, director John Carpenter, director Brett Ratner, director Richard Dreyfuss, actor Jamie Lee Curtis, actress Juliette Lewis, actress Kevin Kline, actor Robert Towne, screenwriter Andy Garcia, actor Jason Alexander, actor John Landis, director James Gray, director Rob Reiner, director, producer Alec Gillis, special effect master Devon Bostick, actor Ernie Hudson, actor Adrienne Barbeau, actress Alec Sokolow, screenwriter Wally Pfister, cinematographer Jan De Bont, cinematographer Mark Romanek, director Ken Kwapis, director, producer Edward James Olmos, actor Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer Gary Marshall, producer, director, writer, actor Henry Winkler, actor, director Fred Roos, producer Matthew Modine, actor Al Ruddy, producer Elliott Gould, actor Mike Fenton, casting director Barbara De Fina, producer Billy Dee Williams, actor Ron Meyer, COO and President of Universal Studios Mira Nair, director, producer Gabriel Byrne, actor Joel Schumacher, director Joe Mantegna, actor Eric Roberts, actor Sean Young, actress Diane Neal, actress Ken Howard, actor Chris Brigham, producer

William Friedkin, director Paul Brown, producer, writer George Gallo, writer, director Illeana Douglas, actress Saul Zaentz, producer David Hasselhoff, actor Bob Fisher, screenwriter Chuck Russell, director Taylor Hackford, director, producer David Marshall Grant, actor, producer Suzanne De Passe, writer, producer Mark Rydell, director Alan Ladd, Jr., producer Lou Diamond Phillips, director, actor Jon Voight, actor Janeane Garofalo, actress Ted Hope, producer Adam Holender, cinematographer John Hamburg, director, writer, producer Paul Haggis, writer, director Anthony Quinn, actor Mark Harris, producer A.C. Lyles, producer Peter Hedges, director, screenwriter Kay Schaber Wolf, Independent Film Executive Brenda Vaccaro, actress Thelma Schoonmaker, editor Amy Smart, actress Lydia Dean Pilcher, producer Zachary Mortensen, founder Bonnie Bruckheimer, producer Jeff Lipsky, filmmaker, distributor Arthur Cohen, producer Martin Kove, actor George McGrath, writer Debora Cahn, producer, writer David Rapaport, casting director Scott Franklin, producer Anthony Bregman, producer Michael Raymond-James, actor Donal Logue, actor Tobin Bell, actor Louis Gossett Jr.,actor Michael Phillips, producer Anupam Kher, actor Buck Henry, screenwriter Hank Azaria, actor Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer Chris Weitz, producer, director, writer, actor Bob Bergen, voice actor Jane Jenkins, casting director Fraser Clarke Heston, director, screenwriter, producer Roger Guenveur Smith, writer, actor Meg Liberman, casting director Mary Kay Place, actress Harry Hamlin, actor Dylan Baker, actor László Kovács, cinematographer James Signorelli, director Nanette Burstein, director, producer

H.H. Cooper, director Melissa Leo, actress Ronnie Yeskel, casting director David Permut, producer Kenneth Johnson, producer David Paterson, screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, director, screenwriter Matt Wolf, director Randal Kleiser, director Billy Zane, actor Karyn Kusuma, director Michael Besman, producer Paul Rachman, director Aric Avelino, director James Avery, actor Barry Avrich, director Mark Bamford, director Debbie Brown, actress Philippe Caland, director Mark Christopher, director Steven De Sousa, writer Tom Dicillo, writer, director Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass Steve Faber, writer Tom Quinn, writer, director Maureen Ryan, producer Bill Fraker, cinematographer Russell Gerwitz, screenwriter Phil Hay, writer Anne Chaisson, producer Heidi Reinberg, producer Tom Quinn, distributor Chris Landon, screenwriter Stephane Sednaoui, photographer, music video director Clark Johnson, director Kenneth Lonergan, director, screenwriter Karen Lutz, writer Luis Mandoki, director Matt Manfredi, writer Bobby Moresco, writer Craig McKay, editor Anastas N. Michos, director of photography Charles Murray, screenwriter Peter Sollet, director Brendan Sexton, actor Kirsten Smith, writer Oscar Torres, writer Philip Dorling, director, writer Jeremy Kipp Walker, producer Rene Bastian, producer Hardy Justice, producer Wendy Sax, producer Ellen Sandler, producer Melvin Sokolsky, photographer, director

Notable alumni

(This list includes alumni from both the Film and the Acting schools, as listed on the pages merged here.)

Trevor Matthews, producer, actor Bevin Prince, actor "One Tree Hill" Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, participant on The Apprentice (TV series) Glen Hansard, singer/actor Jessica Lee Rose, lonelygirl15 Stephanie Okereke, Nollywood actress Imran Khan, Bollywood actor Rohit Gupta, producer, director Justine Wachsberger, actor, New Moon (2009 film) Brittany Andrews, actress, 2008 AVN Hall of Fame Angela Ismailos, director, Great Directors Joshua Leonard, actor Rob Margolies, writer/director Mariyah Moten (Pakistani model, pageant queen) Bennett Joshua Davlin

Sasha Cohen, actress, figure skater Rah Digga, actress, rapper Shaquille O'Neal, actor, basketball player Analeigh Tipton, model, actress Gerald McMorrow, writer/director Eamonn Walker, actor Chord Overstreet, actor, "Glee (TV series)" Naya Rivera, actress, "Glee (TV series)" Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans, Jr., actors and comedians D.B. Woodside, actor Kushal Tandon, actor Greg DeLiso, director Nara Rohith, actor Puneet Prakash, director Joydeep Saha, director, actor, model,

Accreditation

• NYFA is accredited by the NASAD National Association of Schools of Art and Design (CHEA approved).

See also

• Babar Ahmed
• Travis Fine
• Danny Lopes
• Wesley Autrey
• Anwan Glover

External links

• Official website