New York Film Academy (NYFA) 1-Year Filmmaking alum Florian Gunzenhauser is a filmmaker and assistant director from Switzerland. His directing, writing, and filmmaking credits include the television shows Voice of…
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NYFA alum Nathan Hale is an award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author and entertainment attorney. Hale is a two-time NAACP Image Award® nominee, the recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Prestige Award for…
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Stories have a unique power to inform, to illuminate, to move – and few mediums can harness that power, as well as cinema. Utilizing that power as a tool to…
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One of the most powerful aspects of filmmaking is the fact that it truly takes a village to get a movie made. There are many moving parts, all operating in…
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You may not think there’s much of a throughline that connects King Lear and The Brady Bunch, but for an actor, they’re both examples of a craft that’s required to…
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Our NYFA Producing programs teach students all the critical aspects of making a film or television show from start to finish, educating them on the realities and challenges of bringing…
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Five years ago, NYFA Teen Filmmaking alum Allan Ungar, a new director at the time, was sent scripts for films “people thought [he] wanted to make.” Ultimately, these scripts…
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From Diane Arbus to Robert Mapplethorpe, New York has been home to a range of innovative photographers. At NYFA New York, we always add our Chair of Photography, David Mager,…
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It may seem a bit of a no-brainer that the chair of a filmmaking department’s biggest recommendation for people interested in film would be to… go to film school. But…
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