ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

Filmmaker Pavitra Chalam Studies at the New York Film Academy

All young people have dreams and hopes. But not all of them understand precisely what they want and how to get it. Pavitra Chalam is one of those who decided early in life, exactly what she wanted to do and went after it with focus and persistence. And much success!

Only 28, the intelligent, articulate, and well-mannered Pavitra has already made over 35 films. Many of these have received critical appreciation and been screened at good platforms in India and abroad. For her achievements, the New York Film Academy trained Pavitra has been voted Radio Indigo Woman of the Year by Bangalore city, received the Young Achiever Award for Karnataka by the Brigade Group and Rotary Bangalore Midtown, the Rotary Vocational Excellence Award as well as the Young Communicator Award 2009 by Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication…full story.

Gian Franco Morini Directs Hustler Music Video

Directed by New York Film Academy Film School student Gian Franco Morini.

For more student films visit our Screening Room.

2009 New York Film Academy Documentary Film Festival

It’s time for the Winter screening of the 2009 New York Film Academy Documentary Film Festival - a showcase of thesis work from our graduating Documentary students. And you’re invited!

Visit the other side of Hawaiian paradise. Follow an unsuspecting pit bull into “the system.” Declare war on the American film business. Or, on pretty much everything in Holland. Kick it with refugees using soccer to find their place in the melting pot. And with the 21st Century Pirates who’ve suddenly become the 3rd largest party in Sweden. And wrap it all up with a couple of rounds of good, old-fashioned, intergenerational male bonding: the first involving a father, a son and a tattoo. And in the second, a grandson whose birth occasioned a national celebration and the running of the bulls through the streets of Panama tries to reconnect with his grandfather, a deposed General that America refuses to set free, years after everyone agrees his sentence has been served.

It’s all in a night’s work for the unique, young voices of NYFA’s Documentary Filmmaking School Department, who’ve combined the art of storytelling with the craft of filmmaking to recount a rich variety of remarkable true tales.

Winter Screening
2009 NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
December 11, 2009
Screening Room at NYFA’s Union Square campus
100 East 17th Street
New York, New York 10003

Screening at 6:00 pm
Reception to Follow

The Winter 2009 New York Film Academy Documentary Film Festival’s World Premiere Program includes:

Dealing with your dog by Yusuke
In Between Paradise by Lei Tokuda
Hedda’s War by Leah Goudsmit
The Revolution Will Be Animated by Marine Lormant
Kick Off by Priscila Vitteli
The Pirate Party: A Party Of Pirates And Pioneers by Max Carlquist
Family Tradition by Ryan Ross
The General Man, Act I by Jean-Manuel Beauchamp

Really Independent Film Channel!

Don’t miss this opportunity! Showcase your work and talent on a website where industry professionals look for new talent! The best part about this opportunity is that, unlike other similar websites, it does not have any time limit and the size and quality in which you can upload your work is great!

DFD-TV, the world’s first web-based entertainment company, launches The Really Independent Film Channel. the newest venue for current indie films and emerging filmmakers. RIFC seeks strong content in shorts, features, documentaries, animation, experimental, and more, as it builds its archives of diverse and current indie film work. DFD-TV there is no cost to filmmakers or audience; it is nonexclusive and seeks no rights. We build a unique page on the site for each filmmaker, where they can direct audience, prospective partners, distributors or financiers, and the filmmaker is able to have links to their own website, as well as get feedback from the audience in the site’s interactive web ability. The channel’s goal is to support emerging artists and build an audience interested in independent film.

There will be a standard non exclusive agreement, which can be canceled when you need.

visit the website at http://www.reallyifc.com/home.jsp

If you would to submit your work for consideration for the channel, please contact Sara via email at: sara@sesaproductions.com

Earn Your Bachelors Degree in Filmmaking or Acting in Only Three Years

Earning your Bachelors in something you love in less then three years in Hollywood Los Angeles is not a dream anymore thanks to the New York Film Academy and the University of Greenwich, London.

High school graduates who are interested in earning their Bachelors of Arts in Filmmaking or Acting will find the well-rounded and comprehensive Bachelor’s program of the New York Film Academy a very rewarding experience.  During your three year’s of study each filmmaking student will write, shoot, direct, and edit ten film projects of increasing complexity. In addition they will work in key crew positions on their classmates’ films, over thirty films in total.

During the Bachelors in Acting program each student will perform in films, television, and live theater, developing professional skills and a graduate with a reel that displays their on-camera work.

For more information visit www.filmschoolnyfauk.com

For information on our Master of Fine Arts and other filmmaking programs visit Film School Programs.