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NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY
make a film in the city that never sleeps
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
If I had decided to attend a four-year film school, I would have spent two
years talking about the greats like Bergman and Fellini. I believe in learn-
ing 'hands-on' and getting straight to the point.
—Kristen Coury, film director
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Orson Welles once said, “If you give me three days, I can show you the ABCs of film.”
The New York Film Academy (NYFA) graciously gives you a week. In the academy's six-day
movie camps, abbreviated versions of its yearlong program, you will write, direct, shoot, and
edit a film. Granted, your four-minute movie probably won't win any Oscars, but it will be
screened before a studio audience (your fellow movie campers), and it will give you the basic
tools needed for film storytelling and production.
Be forewarned: Many graduates of the weeklong course get hopelessly hooked and end
up abandoning perfectly good careers for NYFA's four-, six-, and eight-week courses.
Like the longer courses, the weeklong camp provides practical hands-on experience. The
philosophy of the school, which has taught everyone from Stephen Spielberg's son to Peter
Bogdanovich's daughter, is you learn best by doing. Not that you won't get feedback and en-
couragement (instructors include award-winning filmmakers and professors from the nation's
elite film schools), but the NYFA believes strongly that trial and error is the best way to master
new skills.
