NYFA New York Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Andrea Swift
As many of the most influential filmmakers know, the key to making a great film is telling a good story. For Andrea Swift, NYFA Filmmaking Chair, who has over 20…
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October 11, 2022
September 29, 2022
NYFA Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Claude Kerven
Life has a funny way of throwing you a curve when you least expect it. For Claude Kerven of NYFA’s Filmmaking department, that curve hit when he first went to…
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September 22, 2022
A Conversation with 1-Year Filmmaking Conservatory Alum & Director Florian Gunzenhauser
New York Film Academy (NYFA) 1-Year Filmmaking alum Florian Gunzenhauser is a filmmaker and assistant director from Switzerland. His directing, writing, and filmmaking credits include the television shows Voice of…
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September 20, 2022
NYFA New York Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Jonathan Whittaker
Stories have a unique power to inform, to illuminate, to move – and few mediums can harness that power, as well as cinema. Utilizing that power as a tool to…
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September 17, 2022
NYFA Los Angeles Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Ed Timpe
One of the most powerful aspects of filmmaking is the fact that it truly takes a village to get a movie made. There are many moving parts, all operating in…
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September 13, 2022
NYFA Miami Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Mark Mocahbee
You may not think there’s much of a throughline that connects King Lear and The Brady Bunch, but for an actor, they’re both examples of a craft that’s required to…
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September 10, 2022
Our Interview With Rising Artist Scholarship Winner Samantha Rosinski
In the Summer of 2022, NYFA welcomed Samantha Rosinski, a recipient of our Rising Artist Scholarship for Teen Camps (RASFTC), to our 1-Week Filmmaking Workshop for teens at NYFA’s New…
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September 8, 2022
Allan Ungar on Directing ‘Bandit’, an Ode to Toronto
Five years ago, NYFA Teen Filmmaking alum Allan Ungar, a new director at the time, was sent scripts for films “people thought [he] wanted to make.” Ultimately, these scripts…
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September 6, 2022
NYFA Miami Filmmaking Faculty: Interview with Herschel Faber
It may seem a bit of a no-brainer that the chair of a filmmaking department’s biggest recommendation for people interested in film would be to… go to film school. But…
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