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NYFA Celebrates Women’s History Month 2023
March 23, 2023

NYFA Celebrates Women’s History Month 2023

March 23rd at NYFA Los Angeles’s Riverside auditorium, students gathered to celebrate Women’s History Month in a very special way: by telling their stories. About 30 students from across short-term…

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NYFA Students Visit The Academy Museum Exhibit 'Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971'
February 28, 2023

Students Visit The Academy Museum Exhibit ‘Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971’

NYFA DEI Committee Takes Students on a Walk Through the Past On a cool Saturday morning in February 2023, NYFA’s DEI Programming Committee took students to The Academy of Motion…

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The 2023 Oscars: Highlights & Full List of Nominees (Updating Live)
January 25, 2023

The 2023 Oscars: Highlights & Full List of Nominees (Updating Live)

The nominations for the 2023 Oscars were announced on Tuesday, January 24th, with Riz Ahmed, who won the Oscar for best live-action short last year, and Allison Williams, who currently…

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NYFA New York
January 20, 2023

NYFA Musical Theatre Faculty: Interview with Kristy Cates

There’s something inimitable about the experience of sitting in the audience as a soaring piece of musical theatre plays out onstage in front of you. It was just such an…

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NYFA Los Angeles
January 20, 2023

NYFA Acting for Film Faculty: Interview with Lynda Goodfriend

Most of the time, if a famous New York stage director looked you in the eye and told you your acting was terrible, it might convince you that performing wasn’t…

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January 20, 2023

NYFA Screenwriting Faculty: Interview with Randall Dottin

Randall Dottin, Chair of Screenwriting at our NYFA New York campus, believes in the power of storytelling. While his first passion was acting, Randall quickly found his purpose in filmmaking…

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January 20, 2023

NYFA Screenwriting Faculty: Interview with Nunzio DeFilippis

The purpose of a writer is to elicit emotion. For Nunzio DeFilippis, Chair of Screenwriting and Dean of Faculty at NYFA’s Los Angeles campus, a story hasn’t served its purpose…

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NYFA Attends the Lunar New Year Reception Hosted by the Chinese Consulate General in New York
January 20, 2023

NYFA Attends the Lunar New Year Reception Hosted by the Chinese Consulate General in New York

On January 17th, 2023, several NYFA staff and faculty members attended a Lunar New Year reception hosted by the Consul General of China’s Consulate in New York, Ambassador Huang Ping,…

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January 17, 2023

FESTIVAL FAVORITE ‘SHIRAMPARI’ DOCUMENTARY HEADED TO 2023 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

The highly-anticipated Sundance Film Festival will be live and in-person in Park City, Utah, this year for the first time since 2020. The festival, which will run from January 19 – 29,…

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