ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

StarNow.com Offers NYFA Students Free Year Membership

StarNow.com is offering graduating students from NYFA a free year’s membership!

The world’s leading online casting and audition website www.starnow.com would like to offer a free year’s membership to all graduating NYFA students.

StarNow.com has posted over 85,000 casting calls since 2004 and is used to recruit talent by casting directors, agents, production companies and photographers from some of the biggest names in the industry.

You will receive your own online multi-media portfolio and be able to Apply to Casting Calls online

Being a StarNow member does not conflict with having an agent.  It’s a great way to build up your experience and even find an agent! StarNow.com is about taking control of your own career. We do not take any commission from the work you receive and many StarNow members have gone on to successful careers in TV, Film and Theatre.

Please register here then email graduate@starnow.com and we will credit you with a year’s free membership.

Take control of your acting career – register now!

New Moon Star Justine Wachsberger

Currently the American actress plays the part of Gianna in the popular vampire movie, New Moon, due out this November. Wachsberger’s character is the Volturi’s human secretary that longs to be immortal and beautiful like her superiors.

As a biography American actress Justine Wachsberger was born in the United States. Wachsberger however calls Paris and Los Angeles, California home. She is a graduate from the University of Southern California and is a former acting school student of the New York Film Academy.

About Justine Wachsberger New Moon experience- “I thought it would be harder to be on set, just because of the buzz and the fact that all these actors started as unknown and became so big – not all of them, but the majority. I thought I would arrive on set and kind of be an outsider and not really fit in. On the contrary, everyone was really nice, really down the Earth. It was a very friendly atmosphere. I was a little stressed out at the beginning, like ‘I’m getting to Vancouver on set, what is it going to be like?’ It was actually a really good surprise.”

Wachsberger made her debut in the movie First Daughter. You can also expect to see her in Sorority Row and the forthcoming and above mentioned Twilight saga sequel, New Moon.

NYFA in London Auditioning Students for Scholarships

Auditioning students for scholarship to The New York Film Academy Conservatory, AFA & MFA Acting for Film and Musical Theatre Programs in New York City and Universal Studios, Los Angeles

Saturday November 7th
Location: London, England

FOR ACTING
Prepare (2) one minute monologues from a published, legitimate source (play, TV or film script, novel/essay). No classical material. Monologues should be memorized, contemporary and contrasting.

FOR MUSICAL THEATRE
Prepare one monologue and a 32 bar cut of a song.

Please email Chanel Kong at chanel@nyfa.com, your photo and a short paragraph of introduction, and you will be contacted with location and time.

NYFA is a fully accredited, degree granting institution. Talent-based scholarship is determined by audition results. International students are also eligible to apply for the Brett Ratner Grant, which is need-based financial aid.

We at NYFA are thrilled to be scouting the very best talent in the UK and are very much looking forward to seeing your work.

We look forward to meeting you in London!

“Playing for Change” Award Winning Documentary

How does a novel idea transform into a global phenomenon?

For filmmaker and co-founder Jonathan Walls, it took his Playing For Change movement (performing the first of their traveling road shows at the Birchmere on Tuesday, October 20) close to 10 years of blood, sweat, thousands of frequent flier miles and many lucky breaks to finally relay their message that through music people can understand one another’s differences and create a better world.

“After I finished a directing workshop at the New York Film Academy, I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, but I sure didn’t think it would be [Playing for Change],” Walls relates about the peace-through-music movement in a recent telephone interview…full article.

Congratulations Jonathan! The world needs more “Playing for Change” films.

Former Film School Students Launch MagicReel.org.uk

Former New York Film Academy students Paul Fischer and Mary Kerr launched  The MagicReel, a new UK charity that aims to use the power of film to assist ill and disabled children through long periods of hospitalization. The Magic Real brings them currently on release films, pre‐release films, on a big screen, on high‐definition or 35mm film. The screenings are free, the prints are brand new, and the equipment manned by professionals.

Paul Fischer, Director

Paul is a young European film producer. Born in Saudi Arabia and raised in France, he has studied at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) in Paris before attending film school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the New York Film Academy in Manhattan. He is the founder and director of Ten Cent Adventures, a London-based film production company, and is the producer of the short film Gone, which premiered at the St. John’s International Film Festival and the New York First Sundays Comedy Festival; We Rob Banks, an upcoming documentary; and the currently filming feature-length documentary Radioman.

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Mary Kerr, Trustee

Mary is a young British film director. She attended Edinburgh University before studying film at Columbia University and the New York Film Academy in New York City. Having worked at Miramax Films, she then spent years working as a casting assistant on such films as King Arthur, Derailed, Alfie and Tristan & Isolde. She wrote and directed the short film Gone (St. John’s International Film Festival, New York First Sundays Comedy Festival) and is currently directing the feature-length documentary Radioman, to be released in 2010.