Students taking New York Film Academy Abu Dhabi’s one-year filmmaking program have dedicated the past semester to their thesis film. They have been editing and polishing their original scripts and story-boarding their movies, which involves organizing visual images in chronological order to show at a glance the progression of the narrative.
Higher percentage of Emirati students (UAE Nationals) than previous years were involved in the films, with new stories and documentaries.
During the One-Year in Filmmaking, Students wrote, shot, directed and edited 8 short films, and their final pieces was on view to the public on the big screen with student’s families, cast, crew, and friends.
The event took the place in VOX Cinema, Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi and welcomed the Emirati filmmaker Nawaf Al-Janahi who always providing inspiration each semester in his Q&A session at the Abu Dhabi campus.