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Alumna Nabs Portuguese-Brazilian Award
July 18, 2016

Alumna Nabs Portuguese-Brazilian Award

NYFA alumna, Gabby Egito, was recently honored with the Portuguese-Brazilian Award, one of the most important accolades of Lusophone communities in the United States. The honorees list was handpicked by a…

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NYFA News on the Scene with President Obama
July 14, 2016

NYFA News on the Scene with President Obama

Earlier this year two of our Broadcast Journalism students — Alisa Rajkitkul and Urvashi Barua — became accredited White House reporters. This means they are entitled to attend any White House media…

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MFA Photography Grad Nominated as Top 15 Best National Cosplay Photographer of 2016
July 14, 2016

MFA Photography Grad Nominated as Top 15 Best National Cosplay Photographer of 2016

MFA Photography Alumnus, Alify Nasution, has been nominated by Cosplay Gen Magazine as one of the top 15 Best National cosplay Photographers of 2016. Nasution is a fine art photographer,…

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Sony Chair Michael Lynton Says Now is the Best Time to Make Movies
July 13, 2016

Sony Chair Michael Lynton Says Now is the Best Time to Make Movies

With Sony’s new Ghostbusters film coming out this Friday, the timing couldn’t have been any better to welcome Chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Michael Lynton, to the New York Film…

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David Bowers Speaks with Summer High School Students
July 13, 2016

David Bowers Speaks with Summer High School Students

This week, director David Bowers brought his latest project, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, the third installment in the Wimpy Kid franchise, to screen at the New York…

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Former Student to Present Photo Exhibition at Cloud Gallery in NYC
July 12, 2016

Former Student to Present Photo Exhibition at Cloud Gallery in NYC

Born and raised in Hong Kong, the New York based photographer and former New York Film Academy Photography student Stone Wong has been featured in Gothesque Magazine and Nam Magazine. With…

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NYFA Doc Grad Directs Award-Winning Feature “Gazelle: The Love Issue”
July 11, 2016

NYFA Doc Grad Directs Award-Winning Feature “Gazelle: The Love Issue”

Gazelle: The Love Issues, directed by New York Film Academy One-Year Documentary graduate Cesar Terranova, started as a five minute short project. It then grew into a feature documentary and became…

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NYFA Docs’ “Freya” Selected to Screen at G2 Earth Film Festival
July 8, 2016

NYFA Docs’ “Freya” Selected to Screen at G2 Earth Film Festival

New York Film Academy Documentary Department is proud to announce that Freya is an Official Selection of the G2 Green Earth Film Festival. Last November, the film premiered with four other…

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NYFA’s Ken Lerner Appears on HBO’s “Silicon Valley”
July 7, 2016

NYFA’s Ken Lerner Appears on HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Mike Judge’s HBO comedy, Silicon Valley, which surrounds the lives of young computer programmers who head out to Northern California to succeed in technology, has been a wild success thus far. Now…

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