NYFA Recent Top Stories
With all of these awards and big-name projects it’s hard to believe that it wasn’t always this way for Billy Porter. It’s easier to believe that this happened over night….
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October 27, 2020
October 27, 2020
NYFA Alum Matthew Avery Berg Screens ‘Accomplice’ in National Film Festival for Talented Youth
Science fiction has a unique ability to drop audiences into a futuristic or unrealistic world and make us think beyond the realm of our everyday existence. In writing and directing…
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October 26, 2020
NYFA Alum Catalina Loret Screens Experimental Short ‘Flores Dentro’ in National Film Festival for Talented Youth
Hailing from Merida, a seaside town in the southeast of Mexico, New York Film Academy alum Catalina Loret (Fall 2015 BFA Filmmaking) “grew up on the beach, exploring the underwater…
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October 25, 2020
NYFA Partners with the National Film Festival for Talented Youth for 2020 Events
As the world’s largest and most influential film festival showcasing young talent from around the globe, the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle has long been a mecca…
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October 7, 2020
NYFA Screenwriting Alum Miguel Ángel Parra’s Enjoys Successful Festival Run With Screenplay ‘The Pink House’
We hear it all the time, “write what you know.” As a journalist, Spanish native Miguel Ángel Parra was all too familiar with that phrase and went from applying it…
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September 30, 2020
NYFA Presents: The Rock The Vote Rally 2020
A rousing group of New York Film Academy students, faculty, and staff from all three campuses (New York, Los Angeles, and South Beach) participated in a Rock the Vote Virtual…
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September 25, 2020
NYFA Los Angeles Cinematography Students Adapt to New Hybrid Model in Creative Stage Lighting Workshop
As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers, New York Film Academy continues to show how its adapting to delivering an applied arts education. The Cinematography department on the Los Angeles campus has taken…
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September 24, 2020
Q&A With NYFA MFA Filmmaking Student Fernanda Belmar on Her New Film ‘Undocumented’ and the Power of Empathy Through Storytelling
Every writer has heard the expression “write what you know,” and MFA Filmmaking student Fernanda Belmar took that advice to heart in developing her intermediate film Undocumented. Inspired by her…
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September 17, 2020
NYFA Los Angeles Holds Virtual Graduation Celebration for Summer 2020 Graduates
On September 12, NYFA’s Los Angeles campus of the New York Film Academy saw 238 students turn into graduates as they held a virtual commencement ceremony for former NYFA students to collect…
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