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Faculty
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Jerry Sherlock
President and Founder
Executive Producer, Hunt for Red October. Independent producer: Universal, EMI, Disney, Tristar, NBC, Paramount, United Artists. Produced Lolita on Broadway with Donald Sutherland.
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Michael J. Young
Provost, Director of Education
BA, Harvard University, magna cum laude; MFA, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. Student Academy Award finalist. Award-winning film McJew screened at festivals internationally, including Oberhausen, Cinema Du Reel, Clermont-Ferrand, Tel-Aviv, Ann Arbor, et al. NEA grant. Scorsese post-production award. Founding faculty of NYFA.
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David Klein
Senior Director
MFA, NYU, Tisch School of Arts. BS, Tufts University, magna cum laude. Awarded Tisch Excellence in Producing Award. Winner of Warner Bros. Production Award for To Dye For. Wrote and directed numerous other projects including the award-winning short film Gone With the Moon.
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Elli Ventouras
Academic Dean
MFA, Parsons School of Design. M.A., New York Institute of Technology - summa cum laude. Award winning film Voices screened internationally at Golden Gate Documentary Film Festival in San Francisco, Miami Short Film Festival, Barcelona Short Film Festival, and Festival Du Cinema de Bruxelles. Voices was also Semifinalist at Boston Motion Picture Awards and requested to be screened as part of the activities planned in Athens, Greece for the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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Dr. Joy Zhu
Dean of Asian Students
PhD., in Business Administration, CAU. BA and MA in English Language and Literature, in China, professor in Harbin Institute of Technology, visiting professor in Shanghai Normal University, Hangzhou University of Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University. Dr. Zhu is the President of US-China Economic & Cultural Development Association, which aims to advance the cooperation of U.S and Chinese education institutions.
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Dr. Bob Arnot
Dean of International Education
B.A. Dartmouth College; M.D. McGill University, Chief Medical Editor and Special Foreign Correspondent for NBC News, Board of Directors Save the Children, UN High Commission for Refugees
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James S. Miller III
Advisor to NYFA President (pro-bono)
Jim Miller is the Executive Director of the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF), a program of the Institute of International Education (IIE). Mr. Miller has been with IIE for 14 years and for the first 9 years as the Executive Director of Studio Art Centers International (SACI). Among other professional accomplishments, he was the founder and CEO of three different private global trading firms. Mr. Miller is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Medhen Orphan Relief Effort (MORE), a 501c3 dedicated to providing essential services to more than 900 children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Ethiopia. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). As well, Mr. Miller currently sits on two US nonprofit boards; a community based arts education program, and an organization involved in humanitarian relief work.
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