Studying at the Film Academy in New York is like living at the crossroads of the world. New York City has a way of thrilling the senses that is as constant and direct as the subways rumbling beneath its surface. For size, diversity of landscape, people, and culture the city is unparalleled. One can hear dozens of different languages, choose from the cuisine of six continents, and rub shoulders with diplomats, designers, machinists or musicians on any given day.
New York is a city of distinct pieces: the bustling shops of Chinatown and Spanish Harlem, the stately museums, the neighborhood brownstones. New York is about neon lights and taxi horns and street music, bookstores and landscaped parks and ten million inhabitants working together, each as unique as the next. All told, New York City, dynamic, rich in layers, always alive, is the perfect training ground for filmmaking. The city challenges and stimulates students on every shoot, every step of the way.
The New York Film Academy's location on Union Square is in historic Tammany Hall building on Park Avenue. The school is easily accessible to the rest of the city. A short walk takes the student into the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, Tribeca, Little Italy or Times Square. A twenty-minute train ride brings students to the door steps of Columbia University and Harlem, or Chinatown, Coney Island, Central Park, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Film shoots - student, commercial, and Hollywood - abound in New York. Simply by volume alone, New York is indisputably the greatest center of independent film production in the world. Like many filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, and painters, our students find that New York itself helps shape their artistic vision. The city is not only a setting for their stories, but also an active element in the lives of their characters.
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