The Dalton School is located just a few blocks away from Central Park on the Upper East Side of New York City. Founded in 1919, the Dalton School has grown into an academic institution with an international reputation. The site itself has undergone continuing expansion since its move to its current location on East 89th Street, resulting in a dignified building with spacious rooms for the study of film. The New York Film Academy’s summer program will be housed in an entire floor of the Dalton school, utilizing classrooms for Camp Programs, hands-on demonstrations, and editing facilities.

The Dalton School site serves as the summer location for our tween programs in New York City, rivaling Los Angeles as one of the greatest centers of film production in the world. The advantages to studying film in New York are numerous. Students will have the opportunity to work on supervised shoots in the country’s most thriving metropolis. If New York City can be considered the back lot of the film program, then this is a back lot that is as tremendously diverse as the inhabitants. Students are energized by the hustle of Midtown, the art life of the Village, the shoppers of Chinatown, and all the neighborhoods around and in-between.