New York Film Academy
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New York Film Academy - School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a film school
Film school
The term film school is used to describe any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film theory, digital media production, and screenwriting. Film history courses and hands-on technical training are usually incorporated into...

 and
acting school
Drama school
A drama school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university; or a free-standing institution ; which specialises in the pre-professional training in drama and theatre arts, such as acting, design and technical theatre, arts administration, and...

 based in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, Universal City, California
Universal City, California
Universal City is a community in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, that encompasses the 415 acre property of Universal Studios...

, USA and Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...

, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

. NYFA offers short-term film-making and acting courses, as well as one- and two-year conservatory and Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 programs. NYFA offers instruction in Film Making, Producing
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, Screenwriting
Screenwriting
Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....

, Digital Filmmaking, Computer Animation
Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....

, and Film Acting
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....

 Programs at various locations throughout the world.

History

The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock
Jerry Sherlock
Jerry Sherlock is an educator and former film and theater producer. Sherlock founded the New York Film Academy School of Film & Acting, in 1992. Sherlock currently resides in New York City and is the President of the New York Film Academy....

, a former film, television and theatre producer. Originally located at the Tribeca Film Center
TriBeCa Productions
Tribeca Productions, a film and television production company, was co-founded in 1989 by actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa...

, NYFA moved in 1994 to Union Square
Union Square (New York City)
Union Square is a public square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.It is an important and historic intersection, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century; its name celebrates neither the...

, in a large building once housing the New York political machine Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...

. As of 2009, the school had 350 employees and over 6,000 students per year.

Philosophy

The New York Film Academy's philosophy is based on a "learning by doing" approach with intensive hands-on training. Most students work outside their specialities to learn the art of film-making by fulfilling each of the key creative positions in the making of a film. The New York Film Academy believes that film is the international literature of our times, through which individuals, communities, and nations express their most profound visions of humanity to the world.

NYFA founder Jerry Sherlock explained to the Times in 2005 that he opened the school after hearing interest from parents and older relatives of aspiring young film-makers, and that he wanted to focus on practical experience.

Degree programs, workshops, and locations

NYFA's programs include film directing
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, film producing
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, screenwriting
Screenwriting
Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....

, cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

, film editing
Film editing
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...

, documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

making and courses in acting
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....

. In 2007 NYFA partnered with NBC News
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...

 to start a program in digital journalism
Digital journalism
Digital journalism is a term used to describe journalism originating from the Internet. Technological innovation, which previously allowed the mass distribution of news and information to large audiences, is now giving that power to individuals...

. In 2010 the contract between NYFA and NBC expired, but the Broadcast Journalism programs at NYFA continue to be offered with many of the original faculty.

NYFA programs, workshops and summer short-term programs are held in:
  • New York City*
  • Universal Studios
    Universal Studios Hollywood
    Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use...

     in Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    *
  • Abu Dhabi, UAE*
  • Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Walt Disney World — Disney's Hollywood Studios
    Disney's Hollywood Studios
    Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Spanning 135 acres in size, its theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s...

    , Orlando, Florida
    Orlando, Florida
    Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

  • Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    , Italy
    Italy
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  • Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

    , France
    France
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  • Rome
    Rome
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    , Italy
  • Bilbao
    Bilbao
    Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

    , Spain
    Spain
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  • Shanghai
    Shanghai
    Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

    , China
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  • Seoul
    Seoul
    Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

    , South Korea
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  • London
    London
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    , England
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  • Mumbai
    Mumbai
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    , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...



* Offered year-round.
Degree programs
Bachelor of Fine Arts
  • Filmmaking
  • Acting for Film
  • Screenwriting
  • Animation
  • Game Design


Master of Fine Arts
  • Filmmaking
  • Acting for Film
  • Screenwriting
  • Producing
  • Documentary Filmmaking
  • Photography
  • Cinematography
  • Game Design


Associate of Fine Arts
  • Filmmaking
  • Acting for Film
  • Screenwriting
  • Producing
  • Game Design


Intensive one-year programs
  • One-Year Filmmaking
  • One-Year Documentary Filmmaking
  • One-Year Acting for Film
  • One-Year Musical Theatre
  • One-Year Producing
  • One-Year Screenwriting
  • One-Year 3D Animation
  • One-Year Game Design
  • One-Year Photography


Conservatory programs
  • Two-Year Conservatory Filmmaking
  • Two-Year Conservatory Acting for Film
  • Two-Year Conservatory Musical Theatre


Short-term programs
  • High School and Preteen
    Preteen
    Preadolescence is a stage of human development following early childhood and prior to adolescence. It may be defined as ending with the beginning of puberty or with the beginning of the teenage stage, the time frames in which adolescence is considered to begin. In terms of age in years,...

     workshops and summer camps
  • Short-term hands-on intensive workshops and evening classes


Hands-on intensive workshops
  • 8 Week Filmmaking Workshop
  • 6 Week Filmmaking Workshop
  • 4 Week Filmmaking Workshop
  • 12 Week Evening Filmmaking Workshop

  • 8 Week Acting Workshop
  • 4 Week Acting Workshop
  • 1 Week Acting Workshop
  • 12 Week Evening Acting Workshop

  • 4 Week Digital Filmmaking Workshop
  • 12 Week Evening Digital Filmmaking Workshop
  • 1 Week Movie Camp
  • 1 Week Music Video Camp

  • 8 Week Screenwriting Workshop
  • 12 Week Evening Screenwriting Workshop

  • 4 Week Editing Workshop
  • 12 Week Evening Editing Workshop

  • 4 Week Animation Workshop

  • Summer Camp for Teens

Scholarships

Film or Acting School students who demonstrate financial need can qualify to receive up to $15,000 for NYFA's one year, two year, or MFA programs. Applicants are required to show a credible need for financial assistance through documentation, as well as submit a personal statement explaining why they would like to attend the New York Film Academy. To date the New York Film Academy has donated over a million dollars in the form of scholarships to the New York City Department of Education
New York City Department of Education
The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. It is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,700 separate schools...

.

Degree partnerships

The New York Film Academy works with a number of universities to allow students to earn bachelor's degrees in conjunction with courses taken at NYFA. These include:
  • The New School
    The New School
    The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...

    , New York
  • St. John's University, New York
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...

    , New Jersey
  • Charter Oak State College
    Charter Oak State College
    Charter Oak State College is a public liberal arts college in New Britain, Connecticut and is named for Connecticut's famous Charter Oak. The college is located across Paul Manafort Drive from Central Connecticut State University...

    , Connecticut
  • Nova Southeastern University
    Nova Southeastern University
    Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian, research university located in Broward County, Florida, with its main campus in the town of Davie...

    , Florida
  • Lynn University
    Lynn University
    Lynn University is a private, non-profit university in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 1962.The university currently hosts students from 40 states and 90 nations...

    , Florida
  • Antioch University
    Antioch University
    Antioch University is an American university with five campuses located in four states. Campuses are located in Los Angeles, California; Santa Barbara, California; Keene, New Hampshire; Yellow Springs, Ohio; and Seattle, Washington. Additionally, Antioch University houses two institution-wide...

    , Los Angeles


Faculty

NYFA draws teachers from the Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....

, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, AFI Conservatory
AFI Conservatory
The AFI Conservatory is a division of the American Film Institute founded in 1969, located in Hollywood's Griffith Park. The school is the only existing Master of Fine Arts conservatory in advanced film education...

, University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 and University of California Los Angeles.
Notable guest lecturers
  • Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg
    Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

    , Director, Producer, Writer (Jaws, E.T., Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan)
  • Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...

    , Actor, Director (Seven, The Usual Suspects)
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films...

    , Actor, Producer, Director (Capote, Doubt, Magnolia)
  • Brett Ratner
    Brett Ratner
    Brett Ratner is an American film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break.- Early life :Ratner was...

    , Director (Rush Hour 1,2,3, Family Man, X-Men 3)
  • Ben Stiller
    Ben Stiller
    Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara....

    , Actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Night at the Museum)
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor whose career as both a child and adult has included television series and theatrical films....

    , Actor (Inception, (500) Days of Summer, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra)
  • Joel Schumacher
    Joel Schumacher
    Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old...

    , Director (Flatliners, Batman Forever, Phone Booth)
  • Kevin Kline
    Kevin Kline
    Kevin Delaney Kline is an American theatre, voice, film actor and comedian. He has won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy Award.- Early life :...

    , Actor (Fish Called Wanda, In & Out, Dave, The Ice Storm)
  • Hank Azaria
    Hank Azaria
    Henry Albert "Hank" Azaria is an American film, television and stage actor, director, voice actor, and comedian. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons , on which he performs the voices of Moe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief...

    , Actor (The Simpsons, Mystery Men, Godzilla)
  • Matthew Modine
    Matthew Modine
    Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...

    , Actor (Full Metal Jacket, Married to the Mob, Birdy)
  • Buck Henry
    Buck Henry
    Henry Zuckerman, better known as Buck Henry , is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director.-Early life:...

    , Writer (The Graduate, Get Smart, To Die For)
  • Barbara De Fina
    Barbara De Fina
    Barbara De Fina is an American film producer.Among her well known films are GoodFellas, Casino, The Color of Money, Kundun, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Grifters...

    , Producer (Casino, Last Temptation of Christ, You Can Count on Me)
  • Janeane Garofalo
    Janeane Garofalo
    Janeane Garofalo is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene.-Early...

    , Actress (Reality Bites, Truth About Cats and Dogs)
  • Elliot Gould, Actor (Oceans 11, The Long Goodbye, MASH)
  • László Kovács
    László Kovács (cinematographer)
    László Kovács, A.S.C. was a Hungarian cinematographer who was influential in the development of American New Wave films. Most famous for his award-winning work on Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces, Kovács was the recipient of numerous awards, including three Lifetime Achievement Awards...

  • Philippe Rousselot
    Philippe Rousselot
    Philippe Rousselot is a French director of photography.Rousselot was born in Briey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. After having studied cinema at l'École Louis Lumière, he graduated in 1966 with, among others, François About, Eduardo Serra, Noël Very, and Jean-François Robin...

  • Ken Kelsch
  • Craig McKay
    Craig McKay (film editor)
    Craig McKay, born in New York's Hudson Valley, is a feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Recognized with two Academy Award nominations for editing Reds and The Silence of the Lambs, and an Emmy Award for editing the NBC miniseries Holocaust, he has edited more...

  • David Koepp
    David Koepp
    -Career:As a writer, Koepp has worked on such blockbuster Hollywood films as Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, and Spider-Man. Koepp had a cameo as the "Unlucky Bastard" in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, in which he was serving as Writer and Second Unit Director.His work as a director has not had...

  • James D. Brubaker
    James D. Brubaker
    James D. Brubaker is an American film producer, production manager, and film actor.Brubaker was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles in the United States...

  • Terry Rossio
    Terry Rossio
    Terry Rossio is an American screenwriter.Rossio was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating from Saddleback High School in Santa Ana, California, he went on to study at California State University, Fullerton where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with an emphasis in radio,...

  • Jon Voight
    Jon Voight
    Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie....

    , Actor (Midnight Cowboy, Runaway Train, The Rainmaker)
  • John Favreau, Actor (Swingers, The Replacements) and director (Elf, Iron Man 1,2)
  • Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

    , Actor (Easy Rider, Hoosiers, Blue Velvet)
  • James Avery, Actor (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Closer, Rosemary's Baby)
  • Bill Fraker, Cinematographer (Tombstone, War Games, Rosemary's Baby)

Notable alumni

(This list includes alumni from both the Film and the Acting schools, as listed on the pages merged here.)
  • Max Spielberg (son of Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg
    Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

    )
  • Jack Robbins (son of Tim Robbins
    Tim Robbins
    Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...

    )
  • Trevor Matthews
    Trevor Matthews
    Trevor Matthews is a Canadian film producer and actor. He is the youngest son of telecommunications billionaire Sir Terence Matthews and Ann Matthews.-Early life:...

    , producer, actor
  • Bevin Prince
    Bevin Prince
    Bevin Anne Prince is an American actress best known for her role of Bevin Mirskey on the CW's hit show One Tree Hill.- Early life :...

     "One Tree Hill
    One Tree Hill (TV series)
    One Tree Hill is an American television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003, on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and, since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster...

    "
  • Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, - The Apprentice (TV series)
  • Glen Hansard
    Glen Hansard
    Glen Hansard is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season...

    , singer/actor
  • Jessica Lee Rose
    Jessica Lee Rose
    Jessica Lee Rose is an American-New Zealand actress who first gained popularity after playing the role of lonelygirl15....

    , Lonelygirl15
    Lonelygirl15
    lonelygirl15 was an interactive web-based video series which began in June 2006 and ran through to August 1, 2008. Developed under the working title The Children of Anchor Cove, the show gained worldwide media attention when it was outed as fictional in September 2006.-Overview:lonelygirl15...

  • Stephanie Okereke
    Stephanie Okereke
    Stephanie Onyekachi Okereke is a Nigerian actress, film director and model. She has received several awards and nominations for her work as an actress, including the 2003 Reel Award for Best Actress, the 2006 Afro Hollywood Award for Best Actress, and three nominations for Best Actress in a...

    , Nollywood actress
  • Ranbir Kapoor
    Ranbir Kapoor
    Ranbir Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies.Making his acting debut in the 2007 film Saawariya, for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, Kapoor went on to earn critical praise for his performance in Wake Up Sid...

    , model/actor
  • Imran Khan
    Imran Khan (actor)
    Imran Khan is an Indian American film actor. He is the nephew of actor Aamir Khan and producer-director Mansoor Khan.Khan rose to stardom for his debut role in the 2008 blockbuster film Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. The film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut...

    , actor
  • Justine Wachsberger, actor, New Moon (2009 film)
    New Moon (2009 film)
    The Twilight Saga: New Moon, commonly referred to as New Moon, is a 2009 American romance fantasy-vampire film based on Stephenie Meyer's 2006 novel New Moon. It is the second film in The Twilight Saga film series and is the sequel to 2008's Twilight. Summit Entertainment greenlit the sequel in...

  • Brittany Andrews
    Brittany Andrews
    Brittany Andrews is the stage name of Michelle Barry, an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer and film producer. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.-Career:...

    , actress, 2008 AVN Hall of Fame
    AVN Hall of Fame
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  • Florencia Kirchner, daughter of Argentine president Cristina Kirchner
  • Angela Ismailos
    Angela Ismailos
    Angela Ismailos is the director of the documentary Great Directors .- About :Angela Ismailos is a Greek-born director, actor, and writer. She directed and produced Great Directors, a film that features interviews and archival footage of ten great living film directors of independent cinema...

     director, Great Directors
    Great Directors
    Great Directors is a 2009 documentary film written and directed by Angela Ismailos. In the film, Ismailos interviews directors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including:* Bernardo Bertolucci* Catherine Breillat* Liliana Cavani* Stephen Frears...

  • Joshua Leonard
    Joshua Leonard
    Joshua Granville Leonard is an American actor, known for his role in The Blair Witch Project.-Early life:Leonard was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Joann, an operator of a children's theatre, and Robert Leonard, a theater professor. He was raised in State College, Pennsylvania...

    , actor
  • Aubrey Plaza, actress/comedienne
  • Mariyah Moten
    Mariyah Moten
    -Biography:Mariyah was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved to the US with her family at the age of 5 and currently resides in the United States.Mariyah Moten graduated from University of Houston in with a degree in hotel management.-Beauty pageants:...

     (Pakistani Model, Pageant Queen)
  • Bennett Joshua Davlin
    Bennett Joshua Davlin
    For other people named Bennett Joshua Davlin, see Bennett Joshua Davlin.Bennett Joshua Davlin is an American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for Writing the Movies: Memory , and The Medallion -Early life:Born in Louisiana, Bennett Davlin began making films at five years old and...

  • Paul Dano
    Paul Dano
    Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as L.I.E. , The Girl Next Door , Little Miss Sunshine , There Will Be Blood , and Where the Wild Things Are .-Early life:Dano was born in New York City, the son of Gladys and Paul Dano...

    , actor
  • Shaquille O'Neal
    Shaquille O'Neal
    Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal , nicknamed "Shaq" , is a former American professional basketball player. Standing tall and weighing , he was one of the heaviest players ever to play in the NBA...

    , actor, basketball player
  • Analeigh Tipton
    Analeigh Tipton
    Analeigh Christian Tipton is an American figure skater, actress, and fashion model, most noted for placing third on Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model and for starring in the 2011 film Crazy, Stupid, Love....

    , model
  • Gerald McMorrow
    Gerald McMorrow
    Gerald McMorrow is a director and writer who wrote and directed the short film Thespian X and had his feature-length writing and directing debut with the 2008 science fiction film Franklyn.-Career:...

    , writer/director
  • Eamonn Walker
    Eamonn Walker
    Eamonn Walker is an English film, television and theatre actor. In the United States, he is known for playing Kareem Said in the HBO television series Oz, for which he won a CableACE Award, and elsewere as Winston, the gay, black thorn in Alf Garnett's side in In Sickness and in Health and John...

    , actor
  • Chord Overstreet
    Chord Overstreet
    Chord Overstreet is an American actor, singer and musician, best known for his role as Sam Evans on the television series Glee.-Early life:...

    , actor "Glee (TV series)
    Glee (TV series)
    Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...

    "
  • Lance Blair (Actor & Model)


Accreditation

  • NYFA is accredited by the NASAD National Association of Schools of Art and Design
    National Association of Schools of Art and Design
    The National Association of Schools of Art and Design , founded in 1944, is an accrediting organization of colleges, schools and universities in the United States. The organization establishes standards for graduate and undergraduate degrees. Member institutions complete periodic peer review...

     (CHEA
    Council for Higher Education Accreditation
    The Council for Higher Education Accreditation is a United States organization of degree-granting colleges and universities. It identifies its purpose as providing national advocacy for self-regulation of academic quality through accreditation in order to certify the quality of higher education...

     approved).

See also

  • Babar Ahmed
    Babar Ahmed
    This article is about the British writer. For the terrorism suspect, see Babar AhmadBabar Ahmed is a British/American writer/director of Pashtun and Pakistani descent...

  • Travis Fine
    Travis Fine
    Travis Lane Fine is an American actor, writer, director and producer, perhaps best known for his roles in Girl, Interrupted and The Young Riders.-Personal life:...

  • Danny Lopes
    Danny Lopes
    Danny Lopes is an actor and model.When he was 15-years-old, Lopes was chosen to play the role of Bobby in Desecration, the first feature length film by Dante Tomaselli...

  • Wesley Autrey
    Wesley Autrey
    Wesley Autrey is a New York construction worker and Navy veteran who in 2007 achieved international recognition after he saved Cameron Hollopeter, a 20-year-old film student who had suffered a seizure and fallen onto the tracks, from being...

  • Anwan Glover
    Anwan Glover
    Ralph Anwan Glover is an American actor and musician. He is one of the founding members of the Backyard Band, a go-go band, as well as appearing as gang member Slim Charles in the HBO series The Wire. He has also appeared in music videos, such as Boyz n da Hood's "Dem Boyz" among others, and has a...


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