ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

NYFA Named Among Best Programs for Documentary Filmmakers

On September 23, 2008, Independent Magazine named the New York Film Academy’s Documentary Filmmaking studies one of the ten best documentary filmmaking programs in the Country. This is good news for aspiring documentarians who are looking for programs designed soley for documenatary filmmaking.

Though only a year old, this intensive, hands-on program shows incredible potential. Columbia alum and Program Chair Andrea Swift works hard to implement NYFA’s main credo: learn by doing. Students in the documentary course get to work with a camera from day one and have unprecedented access to equipment outside the classroom. NYFA boasts a long roster of industry professionals who regularly give talks and master classes, and this new program is no exception. The first graduating class had the opportunity to pitch a reality TV show to a Discovery Channel executive and to work with Emmy award-winning editor Bob Eisenhardt (The Body Human, Soldiers of Music) on their thesis films. - Caitlin Graham

To learn more about this program - Documentary Filmmaking Program