NYFA New York Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Andrea Swift
As many of the most influential filmmakers know, the key to making a great film is telling a good story. For Andrea Swift, NYFA Filmmaking Chair, who has over 20…
Learn MoreAs many of the most influential filmmakers know, the key to making a great film is telling a good story. For Andrea Swift, NYFA Filmmaking Chair, who has over 20…
Learn MoreLife has a funny way of throwing you a curve when you least expect it. For Claude Kerven of NYFA’s Filmmaking department, that curve hit when he first went to…
Learn MoreNew 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…
Learn MoreStories 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…
Learn MoreOne 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…
Learn MoreYou 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…
Learn MoreIn the Summer of 2022, NYFA welcomed Samantha Rosinski, a recipient of our Rising Artist Scholarship for Teen Camps (RASFTC), to our 1-Week Filmmaking Workshop for teens at NYFA’s New…
Learn MoreFive 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…
Learn MoreIt 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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