This
summer 2017, the New York Film Academy will be hosting workshops and film classes taught by leading industry professionals. The NYFA is considered the best hands-on film school in the world by many of today's top filmmakers. The student body is remarkably diverse across the New York City, Los Angeles and South Beach campuses.
The New York Film Academy was founded on the philosophy that ‘learning by doing’ combined with best industry practices is more valuable than years of theoretical study for filmmakers and actors. This educational model allows students to achieve more in less time than at all other film or acting schools in the world.
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Bruce Springsteen, Al Pacino, Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx, and Jodie Foster are among the many figures in the film industry who have sent their family members to study at the New York Film Academy. The NYFA is honored to be the film and acting school of choice of these other luminaries including Kevin Kline, Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Bono (U2), directors Stephen Frears, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Donaldson and James L. Brooks.
For those considering sharpening their skills, the NYFA offers a wide selection of immersive, hands-on workshops, where working industry professionals teach students to create their own original work using the latest techniques, industry-standard equipment, and premier facilities. Students interested an intensive short-term workshop can choose from topics in filmmaking, acting for film, photography, producing, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, broadcast journalism, 3D animation, digital editing, game design, virtual reality, and musical theatre.
In addition to the summer courses, the NYFA offers camps, short-term workshops, conservatory-style programs, and degree programs. The Academy’s one and two-year conservatory-style programs include topics in Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Producing, Screenwriting, 3D Animation, Cinematography, Broadcast Journalism, Photography, Graphic Design, Musical Theatre, and Game Design, as well as an accelerated three-year Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree programs in Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Producing, Screenwriting, 3D Animation, Graphic Design, and Game Design, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Media Studies.
The school also offers two-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Screenwriting, Producing, Cinematography, Documentary, Game Design and Photography, and two-year Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degrees in Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Producing, Screenwriting and Game Design, and a Master of Arts (MA) in Film and Media Production at the Los Angeles campus. Each program is structured for students who want intensive training from award-winning faculty, using professional facilities and equipment starting their first day of classes; better preparing them for a career in the motion picture and entertainment industries. In the first year of any of our filmmaking programs each student will write, shoot, direct and edit eight films and work as crew on 28 more!
About the Faculty
Claude Kerven - Director and Screenwriter
Chair, Filmmaking Program at New York Film Academy
Claude Kerven's career as a professional director began with the outstanding debut of "Candy Store," winner of a student Academy Award for Best Dramatic Student Film. In 1982, he directed a series of after-school specials for ABC TV including the Emmy-winning "Starstruck," and the DGA nominated "High School Narc." Kerven also earned a Cable Ace award nomination for his direction of Jim Belushi's Cinemax comedy special "Birthday Boy" and was the director of over 25 short films for Saturday Night Live including the much celebrated "Synchronized Swimmers" starring Martin Short, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer.
As a directing and screenwriting instructor, Kerven has taught at a number of prestigious film schools (NYU, SVA) before taking on the position of Chair at the New York Film Academy, a role he has held now for over 12 years.
Susan Lambert - Singer, Actress, Producer
Vocal Technique Teacher, Workshop Leader & Coach
Susan Lambert has been concertizing on world stages and in intimate venues for 25 years as well as premiering new works and working in the theatre around the U.S. and Europe as a high profile actress on stage and in television. She has designed arts programs for young people in universities and high schools and freelance and has taught and performed in Greece since 1985.
Susan’s great love is teaching, whether it be acting classes, private voice lessons, or workshops. She has taught Broadway performers, opera singers, pop recording artists, actors form the stage and screen and people who just love to perform as well as teaching hundreds of young students throughout the years!
Phaedra Soutou
Choreographer, Dramaturg, Dancer, Performer
Phaedra Soutou teaches workshops in physical theatre, contemporary dance, and improvisation. A graduate of the Professional School of Dance of Despina Grigoriadou, she also studied Dramaturgy in the theater department of the National Kapodistrian University in Athens, Greece, graduating from the higher dramatic school "Ebros" and going on to hold a Vaganova diploma (Master's in Choreography and Teaching) from the Varna International Dance Academy, Bulgaria.
Anthoula Katsimatides
Actress, Teacher
Anthoula, a true artist at heart, was born and raised in Astoria, Queens and is eagerly pursuing her acting career. Anthoula has played parts in major films such as “Taking Woodstock” (directed by Oscar-winner Ang Lee) and “The Family” (starring Robert Deniro and Michelle Pfeifer and directed by the incredible Luc Besson). In addition to her major acting roles, she has developed her own one-woman show, called “What Will People Think?” and has performed sold-out shows at festivals in NYC.
Dr. Eugenia Arsenis
Director, Dramaturg, Teacher
Eugenia Arsenis has collaborated with international cultural organizations, Royal Albert Hall, San Francisco Opera Center, Center for Contemporary Opera, Skylight Music Theatre. She has worked as Dramaturg of the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York. Coordinator and Dramaturg of the Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera under the artistic direction of Theodore Antoniou, throughout all the years of its artistic operation. A speaker at international conferences, she has taught at many Universities and Conservatories.
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