Catching up with MFA Documentary Grad Abi Prieto
Abi Prieto graduated with honors from New York Film Academy Los Angeles’ Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Filmmaking in September 2015. Remaining in Los Angeles, she was quickly able…
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May 26, 2016
May 13, 2016
Academy Award Nominated Producer Screens “What Happened, Miss Simone?”
As part of a joint collaboration between the Documentary and Producing Schools, the New York Film Academy welcomed back former NYFA instructor Amy Hobby to screen her Academy Award nominated…
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May 10, 2016
Photography Instructor Wins Webby & People’s Voice Award for “The Dawn of the Killer Robot”
Photography Instructor, Connelly La Mar’s documentary The Dawn of the Killer Robots—which he and his team at Motherboard pitched, shot and produced for VICE—was awarded both a Webby Award and a People’s Voice…
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May 10, 2016
Filmmakers Meet Composers Through “Speed Dates”
What happens when thirty composers meet thirty filmmakers and have five minutes to introduce themselves and then move on? It may sound like an exercise in speed dating but the…
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May 9, 2016
Representatives from Brave New Films Discuss Documentaries and Gun Control
New York Film Academy students welcomed representatives from Brave New Films—Laurie Jones and Tommie Bayliss—after a screening of their documentary, Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA. The event was…
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April 15, 2016
“Breakfast in Beirut” Nominated Film of the Year
When we last caught up with New York Film Academy MFA Filmmaking graduate Farah Fuad ALHashem, she had been at dozens of festivals around the world to screen her film Breakfast in…
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April 11, 2016
NYFA Presents “Stranger Than Fiction” at IFC Center
New York Film Academy is excited to present the 2016 Spring Season of NYC’s cutting-edge documentary film series, Stranger Than Fiction, Starting April 12! Stranger Than Fiction, the weekly documentary film…
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March 29, 2016
NYFA Grad Cody Broadway to Direct Documentary on Texas School for the Deaf Football Team
New York Film Academy Filmmaking alumnus Cody Broadway is set to direct a new documentary that will follow the Texas School for the Deaf football team. The film will showcase a team that faces a…
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March 2, 2016
NYFA Documentary Department Presents ‘Stranger Than Fiction’
New York Film Academy is honored to present the 2016 Winter Season of “Stranger Than Fiction.” Our inaugural presentation, Making a Murderer, hosted filmmakers Laura Riccardi and Moira Demos in a…
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