Academic Programs

NYFA Acting Alum Adlih Torres Debuts in Final Season of This is Us
May 20, 2022

NYFA Acting Alum Adlih Torres Debuts in Final Season of This is Us

May 20, 2022 In 2015, writer Dan Fogelman began developing This is Us as an 80-page movie script for ABC Studios. In 2016, This is Us premiered as a series…

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NYFA Filmmaking Alum Sidney Esiri’s First Feature Film
May 16, 2022

NYFA Filmmaking Alum Sidney Esiri’s First Feature Film

NYFA Filmmaking Alum Sidney Esiri‘s journey has not been linear. Instead, it has wrapped around the Nigerian entertainment industry, health industry and military. Esiri, commonly known as Dr. Sid, is…

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NYFA Acting Alum Anatolii Panchenko Stars in French Hit ‘Infiniti’
May 10, 2022

NYFA Acting Alum Anatolii Panchenko Stars in French Hit ‘Infiniti’

  New York Film Academy (NYFA) Acting for Film alum Anatolii Panchenko (Анатолий Панченко) was cast in the acclaimed mini-series, Infiniti. The series premiered at the Cannes International Series Festival,…

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Q&A with NYFA Documentary Filmmaking Alum Anna Khromova
May 10, 2022

Q&A with NYFA Documentary Filmmaking Alum Anna Khromova

The boom microphone first appeared on a film set in 1929 and since then it has been an indispensable part of audio film production. Though it looks simple, (holding a…

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NYFA Alum Manuel Garcia Rulfo Stars in the Netflix Series The Lincoln Lawyer
May 6, 2022

NYFA Alum Manuel Garcia Rulfo Stars in the Netflix Series The Lincoln Lawyer

  The first iteration of The Lincoln Lawyer starred Mathew McConaughey as Mickey Haller in 2011. The film was based on the first book in the series by the same…

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Q&A with NYFA Acting Alum Danny Olabi
May 5, 2022

Q&A with NYFA Acting Alum Danny Olabi

Bobby Diggs, better known as the music artist “RZA,” is leading man to the hop hop music group Wu-Tang Clan and had been in search of a biopic that portrays…

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NYFA Alum Bill Hader’s Barry Season 3 Is Still Killer
May 3, 2022

NYFA Alum Bill Hader’s Barry Season 3 Is Still Killer

NYFA Alum Bill Hader’s Barry Season 3 Is Still Killer After a critically-acclaimed first and second season, NYFA Filmmaking alum Bill Hader’s HBO Original Series, Barry is back with impeccable…

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NYFA DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING INSTRUCTOR CLAUDIA RASCHKE IS DP FOR CNN+ SERIES
April 29, 2022

NYFA DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING INSTRUCTOR CLAUDIA RASCHKE IS DP FOR CNN+ SERIES

NYFA Documentary Filmmaking Instructor Claudia Raschke’s career has run the course of 33 years. She started her career in 1988 and worked her way up to lead cinematographer. In 2011,…

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New York Film Academy Named Top 25 School for Game Design & Animation
April 27, 2022

New York Film Academy Named Top 25 School for Game Design & Animation

New York Film Academy (NYFA) is excited to announce that for the second year in a row, our Game Design Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program was ranked as a…

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