Hudson Summer Live 2009

Film & Acting Camps in New York City 1 Week
nyfa film and acting Program: 5 July - 11 July (101), 12 July -18 July (102), 19 July - 25 July (103), 26 July - 1 Aug (104), 2 Aug - 8 Aug (105), 9 Aug - 15 Aug (106), 16 Aug - 22 Aug (107)

The Film & Acting Camps at the New York Film Academy are honored to be the first choice of many Hollywood filmmakers and their families, including the son of Steven Spielberg; the son of Academy Award winning Actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins; the son of Academy Award winning Actor Kevin Kline; the son of the former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan; the daughter of director George Romero (Night of the Living Dead); and the son of Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning Actress Melanie Griffith.

Other former students include the son of Academy Award winning actor F. Murray Abraham; the sister of director Luc Besson (Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita); daughter of fashion designer Donatella Versace; film and television director, Peter Bogdanovich's daughter; Dan Eisenstein, grandson of one of the fathers of modern cinema; Christian Castro, famous Mexican singer; son of director David Carson (Star Trek, Beverly Hills 90210); and Asian cinema star, Takeshi Kaneshiro (Chungking Express).
Intensity is a hallmark of the New York Film Academy. The students eat, drink and breathe Filmmaking, Acting, or Animation from day one. The classes emphasize hands-on learning and inspire creativity. This is not a camp for passive participants. Camp students must take an active role in every aspect of the program.

The New York Film Academy is a unique educational institution, devoted to providing the most focused filmmaking, acting, and animation instruction in the world. Our film & acting camps offer an intensive, hands-on experience, which gives high school aged teens and tweens the opportunity to develop their creative skills to the fullest extent possible.

Camp courses balance the study of the art form of filmmaking with practical experience, in order to train students to be the best filmmakers, actors or animators they can be. Each subject is taught through a combination of instruction, hands-on workshops, and immediate experience. Indeed, from day one, our film & acting camp students are behind the camera, performing in a scene, or creating a 3-D model – learning by doing.

In all film & acting camps, each student writes, produces, directs, and edits his or her own films. In addition, they assist other members of the crew in the roles of director of photography and assistant camera person, providing all camp students with extensive set experience. Animation camps for teens and tweens are just as intensive and thorough.
Students are not lost in large classes. As an explicit policy, the Film Academy limits class sizes, making individual attention and interaction among students and instructors possible. We strive to create an environment that promotes personal development and learning over competition. This nurtures a supportive, positive atmosphere conducive to the level of collaboration required to make a great film or create a great performance.

Camp directors are confronted with a number of visual, dramatic, and technical challenges. Acting students face the awesome challenge of bringing these stories to life by creating living, breathing characters. 3-D animators must create an imaginary world and characters of their own design. The Film Academy encourages students to work through these challenges; to empower film & acting camp students to artfully tell their stories.

Teen Workshops demand hard work, discipline, and maturity. Students must be self-motivated and able to work with others. Our workshops are not for everyone, but for those up to the challenge, they are extremely rewarding. Above all, Student must have a sense of adventure and a willingness to break through limitations.

We invite you to visit any of our acting & film camp locations when in session, and sit in on one of our classes at any time to see if it is right for you.
Wshington DC 2 Days
union square new york Morning visit the Independence Hall and Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. After that, continue to Washington D.C., take a stroll outside the White House, and the Capital Hills, Washington Monument, the Vietnam Veterans memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial. After lunch in Chinatown, you can have time visit one of the Smithsonian Museums; take a glance at more than 10 world famous exhibitions. 
Boston 2 Day
Tribeca Houston St Start touring the famous Boston in the morning, visit Harvard University, MIT, State Capital Building and Boston Common Park. Then continue to the Fisherman Wharf, if you take the harbor cruise (Optional), you will be have a chance to see the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). After that enjoy shopping and feast at Quincy Market, or you can even enjoy what the street artist's performance. Tour ends around noon, leave with unforgettable memories, back to New York.
Niagara Falls 3 Days
times square broadway There are also surprising ways to enjoy the Falls from afar. Many Niagara Falls hotels and restaurants are situated such that they have spectacular views-especially nice for a romantic getaway-while Niagara attractions like Skylon Tower, which rises 775 feet above the falls, offer observation decks for a very different perspective. Fun Niagara (and Other) Facts A natural phenomenon second in size only to Victoria Falls in Africa, Niagara Falls sees between four and six millions cubic feet of water go over its crest every minute. The Falls are 188 feet high, with the deepest section of the Niagara River just at their base-going down 170 feet. The rim of Horseshoe Falls measures 2200 feet across-the same height of Yosemite's famous Cathedral Spires.