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Film Academy, NYC
| The New York Film Academy opened its doors in 1992 in Robert DeNiro‘s Tribeca Film Center. Since that time The Academy has grown into its own facilities in Manhattan‘s Union Square & Soho. The Academy also opened Film Academies at Universal Studios in Los Angeles & London UK, England. The Academy holds One-Year & short-term programs throughout the year in these locations. During the summer the Academy offers short-term programs at a number of additional locations, including Harvard University; Disney-MGM Studios-Florida; Paris, France; & Florence, Italy. Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, & of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. |
| The New York Film Academy was designed for a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, producers & animators who share a passion for motion pictures & want to learn by making their own projects in a hands-on, intensive program. Filmmaking demands the integration of many kinds of knowledge. It is the integration of knowledge that distinguishes the New York Film Academy from many other film schools. In Academy' courses students learn not only how to operate a camera, light a scene, or edit film. They learn how all the aspects of filmmaking relate to, interact with, & depend upon each other. The many different programs of the New York Film Academy share a philosophy that balances in-class instruction by award-winning filmmakers with an intense exploration of the medium through practical, hands-on work. For Academy, learning by doing means requiring each student to make a series of short films. This takes them through the entire filmmaking process. Each student writes, produces, directs, & edits each film, then screens it & engages in constructive discussion & critique. The student applies the experience gained through this process to the next project, & the learning process continues. Orson Welles once stated, "If you give me three days, I can show you the ABCs of film." The New York Film Academy gives its students a bit more time - programs run from four, six, & eight weeks to one year. The Academy' goal is to give students the basic tools & practical hands-on experience needed for filmmaking. This lays a solid foundation for future work. The students themselves will apply what they have learned to whichever path they take. For many students, the time & tuition required to complete a four-year university program are impractical burdens. The Acadey believes that students provide the talent; the Academy provides the instruction, equipment & structure. It is the students‘ drive & creative ability that carries them forward. The Academy provides students with the opportunity to learn directing by doing just that - directing. Students are challenged to make creative decisions that in some way, great or small, contribute to the drama of their films. The Academy encourages students to explore the various ways of expressing an idea or a thought through moving images. The New York Film Academy believes that the correct paths for filmmakers is to immediately start making their own films in a hands-on intensive working environment. Towards this end, all students begin making their own films in the first week of all Academy workshops. "Every film has a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order." - Jean Luc Godard. |
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