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Sam Peckinpah

…delivered on-budget. After Peckinpah’s increasingly ill-tempered, drug and alcohol-fueled excesses and confrontational material, even the most troublesome of subsequent bad-boy directors would appear a pussycat to studio bosses. Although The…

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So You Want To Be A Producer?

…day one, students are treated as producers and this will last throughout the duration of the course. Students are encouraged to bring a piece of intellectual property, or original material,…

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New York Film Academy (NYFA) MFA Filmmaking Student Bruklyn Miller Wins Wolfson CinemaSlam Works in Progress Award

…filmmakers and help them navigate the film festival circuit, as well as encouraging students to use archival materials in film and video production, specifically material housed at the Lynn and…

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Nicole Clemens, President of Television at Paramount & Paramount +, Talks Legacy IP’s & Industry Tips

…the studio can buy their own material, greenlight original pitches, make deals with screenwriters, directors and producers, then sell to either broadcast or streaming platforms. “It is very rare that…

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NYFA SCREENWRITING ALUMNA’S “THE DARK OF NIGHT” DIRECTED BY ROBIN WRIGHT PREMIERES AT CANNES

…with her material and getting nowhere fast, Meyers moved onto a different career as a gourd artist, but, at the end of the day, her heart wasn’t in it as…

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Chris Lofing Returns to NYFA to Screen Debut Horror Film ‘The Gallows’

…most of the movie a second time. With every new cut, the filmmakers realized there was still more they could do and continued to shoot more material. Dean of Students…

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Avatar Cinematography Analysis: Going to New Worlds

…could use reflective paint and reflective material on certain objects that would react to UV light in a way that differentiated them in post-production, allowing the green screen around them…

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