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New York Film Academy

New York Film Academy

About Me

The New York Film Academy is a premier Film School & Acting School.
Many Hollywood filmmakers and their families come to the New York Film Academy to learn filmmaking, including:
-Steven Spielberg's son -Son of Academy Award winning Actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins -Academy Award winning Actor Kevin Kline's son -Former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan's son -Director of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's daughter -Son of Actress Melanie Griffith -Son of Academy Award winning actor F. Murray Abraham. -The sister of director Luc Besson (Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita -Daughter of fashion designer Donatella Versace -Film and television director, Peter Bogdanovich's daughter -Dan Eisenstein, grandson of one of the fathers of modern cinema -Christian Castro, famous Mexican singer -Son of director David Carson (Star Trek, Beverly Hills 90210 -Asian cinema star, Takeshi Kaneshiro (Chungking Express).Yet, some of the best films to come out of the New York Film Academy are from students with no connections to the film industry.
The Film School & Acting School at the New York Film Academy is home of one of the most innovative and dynamic filmmaking schools in the world.
We designed our programs based on the philosophy of "learning by doing." Every curriculum in every program stems from that belief.
To support our philosophy and our curricula, we maintain an unparalleled faculty and one of the largest film school equipment inventories in the world. Film School .

My Interests

Film School, Acting School, Filmmaking, Directing, Producing, Digital Film, Animation, Scriptwriting, Film Students, Acting Students, The New York Film Academy

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Soundtracks

Movies:

Movies by:

Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Nagisha Oshima, Mel Brooks, Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Brett Ratner, Billy Wilder, Jonathan Demme, Luis Bunuel, David Koepp, Lina Wertmueller, Kenneth Lonergan, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Haggis, Joel Schumacher, Luis Mendoki, John Cassavettes, James Signorelli, and Oliver Stone.

Films:

X-Men 3, After the Sunset, Rush Hour, You Can Count On Me, Gangs of New York, Crash, Happiness, Royal Tenenbaums, Raising Victor Vargas, Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, Spiderman, Inside Man, Zoolander, Truth About Cats and Dogs, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy, Hunt for Red October, Blade Runner, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Secuestro Express, Innocent Voices, When a Man Loves a Woman, Puffy Chair, There's Something About Merry, Wedding Crashers, Welcome to the Doll House, Boys Don't Cry, Silence of the Lambs, and Philadelphia.

Television:

Law and Order, The Sopranos, Sex and City, The Wire, Deadwood, Entourage, and Smallville.

Books:

The Shot by Stephen Katz, Story by Robert McKee, Rebels on the Backlot by Sharon Waxman, Poetics by Aristotle, Full Metal Jacket Diaries by Matthew Modine

Heroes:

"Anyone who can make a film is already my hero."

My Blog

New York Film Academy: Acrting for Film & Musical Thearter Auditions

The New York Film Academy will be holding Auditions for Acting for Film and Musical Theater School. Auditions will be held nation wide May through August.Please click the link below to learn more abo...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:38:00 PST

The New York Times talks about the New York Film Academy & NBCs Digital Journalism School

"Readers of media-related Web sites have been bombarded with ads promoting NBC News's partnership with the New York Film Academy. In Los Angeles, billboards for the four-week, eight-week and one-year ...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:53:00 PST

$%&! Bleep!

The filmmaker Brett Ratner known for making the Rush Hour movies and X-Men 3, The Last Stand was in an ad for the New York Film Academy with the bad words bleeped out."We were playing poker and he los...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:46:00 PST

We’ve Been Blogged!

Journal Mural do CACS mentioned us and called us "one of the best cinema schools in the whole world."Aww Shucks! Thanks.To read more please visit NYFA blogspotJournal Murl ...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:19:00 PST

Toronto Film Festival

Toronto Student Film Festival organizers announced an official extension to its entry deadline, due to unprecedented demand this week. High school students now have until Friday, April 4 to submit the...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:34:00 PST

Joshua Leonard, One "Beautiful Loser" From NYFA

Congratulations to New York Film Academy Alumni, Joshua Leonard, for his impressive body of work. You may remember Joshua from his starring role in the feature, "The Blair Witch Project" which ran a v...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:08:00 PST

NYFA Graduate John Sammon Traded Law For Film

The Gulf News Website has a story about one of the Film School at New York Film Academy’s former Film Students, John Sammon.They write:He ditched law school for a degree in filmmaking at the New...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:59:00 PST

Kudos Goes To NYFA Graduate, Paul Dano For There Will Be Blood Role

New York Film Academy graduate, Paul Dano, played twin brothers, Eli and Paul Sunday in the Oscar-winning film "There Will Be Blood," opposite actor, Daniel Day-Lewis. Paul Dano’s acting credits...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:05:00 PST

NYFA Graduate Arun Vaidhyanathan Turmed Bollywood Director

"New York Film Academy’s Film School graduate Arun Vaidhyanathan was featured on the Bollywood website TamilStar.com. He spoke about "’Acchamundu Acchamundu," the next movie he is planning...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:38:00 PST

Philadelphia Film Festival

NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY BLOGFIRSTGLANCE FILM FEST PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - USA (0) Friday, March 14, 2008, 01:23 PM ( 6 views )In the Spotlight this week is the 11th Annual FIRSTGLANCE ...
Posted by New York Film Academy on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:52:00 PST