ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

Do you have the ideas but lack the experience as a screenwriter to get them in screenplay form? Would expert instruction and feedback help shape your idea into a marketable screenplay? Now, you can receive professional instruction and feedback from an award winning screenwriter while you learn to write an original screenplay of 90-120 pages on your personal computer and on your own time schedule.

The New York Film Academy offers the most comprehensive online screenwriting courses available in the world.

For more information or to register contact our friendly admissions staff at (212) 674-4300.

Award Winning Instructor

Carol Mayes, (producer, writer, director), has years of industry experience. She has worked on a diverse array of projects for network television, as well as independently produced shorts, features, and animation. Her films as writer/director, "Commitments" (starring Allen Payne & Victoria Dillard) and "Rituals" (starring Regina King, Isaiah Washington, & Jenifer Lewis) were produced for BET Pictures and Lifetime Television, respectively. As a winner of the Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship, she has written features & television scripts for Disney Studios and ABC Television. Other credits include, writer, "East St." pilot episode for The N Network, and producer for segments on PBS' "Sesame Street". Other honors include, finalist for the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, and awards from the Toronto International Film Festival, Director’s Guild of America, the CINE Golden Eagle, Student Academy Award Nomination, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, and Urban World Film Festival.

Carol Mayes holds a Master of Fine Arts from The American Film Institute and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University.

Online Learning

New York Film Academy’s online learning is interactive and participative. Students complete one course at a time, progress to the next course in the same way as students who meet at our on-campus classrooms and work in teams with their classmates for special projects.

The Screenwriting class is held completely online and was developed by the same faculty that created the rigorous curriculum that is used in our one-year classroom screenwriting program. Rather than gathering in a traditional classroom, students and instructors interact electronically, resulting in increased access for students by allowing them to control the time and place of their participation.

Lectures and screenings are made available weekly for download or stream, assignments are posted and classes will meet online once a week for discussion and critique with the instructor.

Our online school allows you to work independently and in groups, no matter where or when you work. When students log on to the Online School website, they can:

• check their email.
• complete coursework through electronic forums.
• log in and participate with their classes when and where they choose.
• communicate online with classmates, instructors, and academic counselors.
• complete 100% of their educational and administrative activities online.

Rigorous Curriculum

Screenwriting is the foundation of which filmmaking is built on. A writer is very much like a craftsman who must train by doing-- writing every day possible. This is why NYFA requires, daily assignments and weekly deadlines.

Students are required to complete 38 weekly live workshops with the instructor online. Downloadable mini-lectures and sample screenplays demonstrate concepts and help students prepare for assignments. Throughout the program students will receive extensive feedback and script notes from the instructor on their screenplay.

Upon completion of the program, students will have gained an in-depth understanding of story structure, character, conflict and dialogue, and the completed first draft of a feature length film script (90-120 pages); which students can pitch, produce, and try to sell.