NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY LOS ANGELES
2015 STUDENT HANDBOOK
1 2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 7 Welcome History Statement of Purpose Mission Objectives 8 Licensing & Approvals Student Access to Staff & Faculty Student Interaction 9 Note About Our School About the Student Handbook
2015 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 10
CODE OF CONDUCT 21
REGISTRATION & COURSE SCHEDULES 25 Registration Student ID Badges NYFA Email Accounts Course Schedule
TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING 26 Housing Information Parking Transportation Bicycles 27
LIBRARY, FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT 28 Library Resources Classrooms Dance Studios Sound Stages Props, Wardrobe & Set Dressing Automated Dialog Replacement 29 Post-Production & Computing Computer Areas Photography Studio Equipment Room
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 2 STUDENT RESOURCES 30 Veteran Affairs International Student Office Learning Differences 31 Industry Outreach & Professional Development
ACADEMIC RESOURCES 32 Academic Advising Learning Differences Learning Resources Director Library Resources Library Fine Policy 33
TUITION & COSTS 34
One-Year Filmmaking Expected Supplies Costs 38 AFA Filmmaking Expected Supplies Costs 40 BFA Filmmaking Expected Supplies Costs 42 MFA Filmmaking Expected Supplies Costs 44 Expected Supplies Costs 47
STUDENT TUITION RECOVERY FUND 48
FINANCIAL AID 50
Financial Need 51 How to Apply Loan Programs Direct Subsidized Student Loans Direct Unsubsidized Student Loans 52 Direct Plus Loan Alternative Loan Programs Other Types of Financial Assistance 53 Financial Aid Probation Financial Aid Suspension Financial Aid Policies
NEED-BASED TUITION DISCOUNT 55 General Application Tuition Discount Criteria Period of Discount 56
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 3 DRUG & ALCOHOL POLICY 57 PRODUCTION WORKSHOP RULES & REGULATIONS 61 Vehicles Entering Universal Studios Safety Trams Casting Props & Wardrobe Lunch 62
CAMPUS POLICIES 63 Dress Code Smoking Neighbors Bikes & Skateboards Pets & Animals
CAMPUS CRIME & SECURITY 64 Jeanne Clery Act Los Angeles & Burbank Police Departments Reporting Intimidation, Threats or Violent Acts The Investigative Process 65 Disciplinary Action: Students, Faculty, & Staff Non-Emergency Procedures & Reporting Code of Conduct Violations Crime Log 66 Non-Residential Buildings Property Security Against Theft Harassment Definition of Sexual Assault Definition of Dating Violence 67 Sex Assault, Dating, Domestic Violence, & Stalking Prevention & Awareness Procedures for Reporting Sexual Assault Sex Offender Notice 68 Timely Warnings Emergency Notification System Evacuation Procedures 69
CLASSROOM POLICIES 70 Cell Phone Policy Personal Belongings Consultations
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 4 Room Bookings
ATTENDANCE POLICIES 72 Tardiness Excused Absences Unexcused Absences Absences for Community Education Programs Absences for 1-Year/2-Year Certificate, Undergraduate & Graduate Programs 73 Leave of Absence
ACADEMIC POLICIES 74 Grading Policies Grade Appeal Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) 75 NYFA LA Academic Progress Structured Remediation Program (SRP) 77 Testing Out Failed Courses Thesis & Final Projects Add/Drop, Change & Withdrawal Add/Drop, Change Dates 78 Program Change 79 Vacation Break Graduation Requirements
CREDIT EARNING POLICIES 80
TRANSFER CREDIT POLICIES 81 Transfer Credit After Matriculation Transfer of International Credit 82 Credit for Non-Traditional Experience Notice Concerning Transferability of Credits & Credentials at Our Institution Other Course Work Tuition Credit Articulation with Other Schools
DISCIPLINARY POLICIES 84 Simultaneous Probations Procedural Hold Suspension Expulsion Appeal Process
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 5 CREATIVE FREEDOM 85 Academic Freedom Academic Honesty & Creative Integrity Freedom of Speech Copyright Infringement Policy 86 Intellectual Property
EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS & PRIVACY 87 Retention & Persistence Student & Instructor Non-Fraternization Policy Diversity & Non-Discrimination Policy Reporting Discrimination Harassment & Sexual Assault 88 Student Rights & Grievances Student Grievances Procedures
DIRECTORY 90 Campus Hours & Address Online Publications Student Services Production Resources 91 Administrative Resources Academic Resources Student Resources 92 Filmmaking Department 93 Acting for Film Department Screenwriting Department 94 Producing Department Liberal Arts & Sciences Department Cinematography Department Photography Department 95 Documentary Department Game Design Department 3-D Animation Department
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 6 INTRODUCTION
WELCOME HISTORY
Welcome to the New York Film Academy. The New York Film Academy was founded in We’re sure you’re going to find your time at 1992 on the belief that a top-quality education the school enlightening, productive and in filmmaking should be accessible to anyone exhilarating. with the drive and ambition to make films. The school opened in Robert De Niro’s We have outstanding faculty to guide you Tribeca Film Center in New York City, and through your program and help you develop has expanded worldwide to include campuses your craft. The administration and staff are in New York, Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi and the here to help with any questions or concerns Gold Coast, Australia. you may have. Please take advantage of our services; we’re here to make your time at the Academy as rewarding as possible. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The purpose of the New York Film Academy Our programs are accelerated, intensive and (NYFA) is to further a global understanding of, challenging. They will afford you the and appreciation for, the art and craft of visual opportunity to explore the possibilities of storytelling through the education and training visual storytelling as you hone your personal of interested and qualified individuals, and to artistic vision and voice. To succeed in these hone the skills of future professionals so that programs, however, your best efforts will be they may one day serve the visual storytelling required. Hard work, dedication, collaboration, arts as industry leaders. passion and persistence will pay off as you find yourself growing as an artist. MISSION In order for all students, faculty and staff to be able to thrive in an open, cooperative, The mission of the New York Film Academy is supportive environment, please follow the to educate students interested in the field of policies outlined in this handbook. visual storytelling. NYFA courses have been designed to increase students’ creativity and Sonny Calderon technical expertise through an intense regimen Dean of the College of hands-on and classroom instruction. The Academy’s goal is to enrich its students as visual storytellers by helping them realize their personal artistic visions. NYFA’s expectations center on the growth of each student as a creative individual.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 7 OBJECTIVES As of this handbook’s publication, The New York Film Academy does not have a pending NYFA has set the following objectives to fulfill petition in bankruptcy, is not operating as a its stated mission: debtor in possession, has not filed a petition • To provide a learning environment within the preceding five years, and does not conducive to creative thought and artistic have a petition in bankruptcy filed against it expression, as well as hands-on collaboration. within the preceding five years that resulted in reorganization under Chapter 11 of the • To help students better appreciate the art and craft of visual storytelling so that they United States Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. Sec. may develop as artists and better express their 1101 et seq.)
personal artistic visions. This institution is approved by the United • To empower students to find and develop a States Citizenship and Immigration Services, a creative voice. Bureau of the Department of Homeland To teach and develop new capabilities in • Security (formerly the United States students’ approach to the art and craft of Department of Justice, Immigration and visual storytelling. Naturalization) for attendance by non- immigrant students. LICENSING & APPROVALS
The New York Film Academy is a private STUDENT ACCESS postsecondary institution accredited by the TO STAFF & FACULTY National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Students are provided flexible access to one-on- one consultations with each of their instructors. The New York Film Academy has received In addition, all full-time faculty are available “approval” from the Bureau for Private for an additional three hours per week outside Postsecondary Education (BPPE) to operate as of class for office hours and consultations. a degree-granting institution in the state of Administrators are readily available to provide California. “Approval” or “approval to operate” individualized mentoring and counseling for means that the Bureau has determined and any issues related to their individual fields of certified that an institution meets minimum expertise. The New York Film Academy is standards established by the Bureau and open for students Monday-Saturday, except on according to the California Private specified holidays. When the Academy is open, Postsecondary Education Act of 2009. a staff member is always available by phone or in person for consultation, questions, or help. 2535 Capital Oaks Drive, Ste 400 Also, during hours of operation, students have Sacramento, CA 95833 access to the library and all learning resources. P.O. Box 980818 West Sacramento, CA Students may use the Editing Room by signing Web site address: www.bppe.ca.gov up one day in advance in the Post-Production Telephone & Fax: Office. (888) 370-7589 or by fax (916) 263-1897 or (916) 431-6959 or by fax (916) 263-1987
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 8 STUDENT INTERACTION student may express his or her personal artistic visions. Intra- and inter-departmental interaction between students is a vital component of the ABOUT THE STUDENT collaborative experience fostered by the New HANDBOOK York Film Academy education. Assigned studio and lab work is often collaborative in The Office of the Dean of the College nature (as are in-class critiques of student publishes the 2015 NYFA, Los Angeles work), but additional interaction is encouraged Student Handbook. This Handbook serves as a and supported by the Academy outside of the guide for all students enrolled at the New York framework of the curriculum. All students Film Academy in the 2015 academic year and from all departments are encouraged to attend supersedes any handbook previously published. the final screenings. The New York Film Academy reserves the right to change policies and regulations periodically. NOTE ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
Consistent with the mission and educational objectives of NYFA, the focus of the Academy's programs is to develop each student's artistic and creative potential in the art and craft of the moving image. Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Documentary Filmmaking, Producing,
Cinematography, Screenwriting, Photography,
Game Design, 3-D Animation, Illustration and
Graphic Design are all means by which a
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 9 2015 ACADEMIC CALENDAR
3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 FILMMAKING Registration: 5/26/15 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 9/24/15 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 5/26/15 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 MASTER OF FINE ARTS 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 IN SCREENWRITING Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 Registration: 9/24/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN ACTING FOR FILM Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 1/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 10 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 MASTER OF FINE ARTS Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 IN PRODUCING MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN Registration: 1/26/15 CINEMATOGRAPHY 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Registration: 1/26/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 5/26/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 9/24/15 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 9/24/15 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 PHOTOGRAPHY MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN Registration: 1/26/15 DOCUMENTARY 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 FILMMAKING 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 1/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15
3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16
Registration: 9/24/15 Registration: 5/26/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 11 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Registration: 5/26/15 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 9/24/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 9/24/15 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN FILMMAKING GAME DESIGN Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 Registration: 1/26/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Registration: 5/26/15 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 9th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 5/26/15 Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 MASTER OF ARTS IN FILM & 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 MEDIA PRODUCTION Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 9th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 Registration: 9/24/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 12 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 ACTING FOR FILM 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 9th Semester: 5/29/18 - 9/15/18 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 SCREENWRITING Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 1/26/15 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 5/26/15 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 5/26/15 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Registration: 9/24/15 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Registration: 9/24/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 13 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 GAME DESIGN 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 1/26/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 5/26/15 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Registration: 9/24/15 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 9/24/15 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 3-D ANIMATION 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 Registration: 1/26/15 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 PRODUCING 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 1/26/15
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 14 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 5/26/15 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 5/26/15 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Registration: 9/24/15 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 7th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 8th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Registration: 9/24/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 ASSOCIATE OF FINE ARTS IN 7th Semester: 9/25/17 - 1/20/18 FILMMAKING Holiday Break: 12/17/17 - 1/2/18 8th Semester: 1/29/18 - 5/19/18 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 PHOTOGRAPHY Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 1/26/15 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 5/26/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 5th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 6th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 7th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 8th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 5th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 6th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 Registration: 5/26/15 Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Registration: 9/24/15 5th Semester: 1/30/17 - 5/20/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 6th Semester: 5/30/17 - 9/16/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 ASSOCIATE OF FINE ARTS IN 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 ACTING FOR FILM Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17
Registration: 1/26/15 ASSOCIATE OF FINE ARTS IN 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 GAME DESIGN 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 1/26/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Registration: 5/26/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 5/26/15 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 9/24/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Registration: 9/24/15 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 ASSOCIATE OF FINE ARTS IN 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 SCREENWRITING Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17
Registration: 1/26/15 ASSOCIATE OF FINE ARTS IN 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 PRODUCING 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 1/26/15
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 ONE-YEAR FILMMAKING 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 1/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15
3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15
2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16
3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 9/24/15
1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 9/24/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17
TWO-YEAR PHOTOGRAPHY ONE-YEAR ACTING FOR FILM Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 Registration: 1/26/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 4th Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 5/26/15 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Registration: 5/26/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 9/24/15 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 4th Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 ONE-YEAR SCREENWRITING 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 1/26/15 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 4th Semester: 9/26/16 - 1/21/17 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/18/16 - 1/2/17
Registration: 5/26/15
1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 17 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 5/26/15 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16
ONE-YEAR PRODUCING Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 1/26/15 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 ONE-YEAR Registration: 5/26/15 CINEMATOGRAPHY 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 1/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 5/26/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16
ONE-YEAR DOCUMENTARY Registration: 9/24/15 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 FILMMAKING Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 ONE-YEAR GAME DESIGN 3rd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 1/26/15 1st Semester: 2/2/15 - 5/23/15 Registration: 5/26/15 2nd Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15
2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 5/26/15 3rd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 6/1/15 - 9/19/15 2nd Semester: 9/28/15 - 1/23/16 Registration: 9/24/15 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 Registration: 9/24/15 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 1st Semester: 10/1/15 - 1/23/16 3rd Semester: 5/31/16 - 9/17/16 Holiday Break: 12/20/15 - 1/3/16 2nd Semester: 2/1/16 - 5/21/16 ONE-YEAR PHOTOGRAPHY EIGHT-WEEK FILMMAKING Registration: 1/26/15 1/5/15 – 3/8/15
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 18 5/4/15 – 7/5/15 FOUR-WEEK DIGITAL EDITING EIGHT-WEEK ACTING FOR FILM 2/2/15 – 3/1/15 4/6/15 – 5/3/15 1/5/15 – 3/1/15 7/6/15 – 8/2/15 5/4/15 – 6/28/15 10/5/15 – 11/1/15
EIGHT-WEEK FOUR-WEEK ACTING FOR SCREENWRITING FILM
1/5/15 – 3/1/15 1/5/15 – 2/1/15 5/4/15 – 6/28/15 5/4/15 – 5/31/15
EIGHT-WEEK TWELVE-WEEK EVENING PHOTOGRAPHY FILMMAKING
1/5/15 – 3/1/15 1/12/15 – 4/5/15 5/4/15 – 6/28/15 6/15/15 – 9/6/15
HOLIDAY FILMMAKING TWELVE-WEEK EVENING
12/1/14 – 1/26/15 DIGITAL FILMMAKING 1/12/15 – 4/5/15 SIX-WEEK FILMMAKING 6/15/15 – 9/6/15
6/2/14 – 7/13/14 7/7/14 – 8/16/14 TWELVE-WEEK EVENING DIGITAL EDITING FOUR-WEEK FILMMAKING 1/12/15 – 4/5/15 1/5/15 – 2/1/15 6/15/15 – 9/6/15 5/4/15 – 5/31/15 TWELVE-WEEK EVENING FOUR-WEEK DIGITAL ACTING FOR FILM FILMMAKING 1/12/15 – 4/5/15 1/5/15 – 2/1/15 6/15/15 – 9/6/15 5/4/15 – 5/31/15
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 19 TWELVE-WEEK EVENING ACADEMIC BREAKS
SCREENWRITING Dec 20, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016 Dec 18, 2016 - Jan 3, 2017 1/12/15 – 4/5/15 6/15/15 – 9/6/15 NATIONAL HOLIDAY TWELVE-WEEK EVENING BREAKS
PRODUCING Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Monday, January 19, 2015 1/12/15 – 4/5/15 Good Friday: Friday, April 3, 2015 6/15/15 – 9/6/15 Memorial Day: Monday, May 25, 2015 Fourth of July: Saturday, July 4, 2015 ONE-WEEK FILMMAKING Labor Day: Monday, September 7, 2015 Rosh Hashanah: Starts 5pm Mon. Sept. 14, all 1/12/15 – 1/17/15 day Tues. Sept. 15 5/11/15 - 5/16/15 Yom Kippur: Starts 5pm Wed. Sep. 3, 2015, all 6/8/15 – 6/13/15 day Thurs. Sep. 4, 2015 7/13/15 – 7/18/15 Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 26, 2015 – 8/10/15 – 8/15/15 Friday, November 27 Holiday Break: December 20, 2015 – January 3, 2016 ONE-WEEK ACTING FOR FILM
1/12/15 – 1/17/15 5/11/15 - 5/16/15
6/8/15 – 6/13/15 7/13/15 – 7/18/15 8/10/15 – 8/15/15 10/12/15 – 10/17/15
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 20 CODE OF CONDUCT
Freedom of Speech offenses and will be subject to a Disciplinary Review Hearing at which penalties will be 1. NYFA is a creative and artistic environment. imposed. While we embrace each student’s right to free speech and expression, any form of 5. Academic honesty extends to all school discrimination based on, but not limited to, projects, productions and exercises both on age, race, religion, gender or sexual and off campus. Students must maintain a orientation toward any NYFA instructor, high standard of honesty in declarations and staff member or student will not be descriptions of these projects to faculty, tolerated. Any student who fails to comply administration and staff, as well as other with this rule will be subject to suspension agencies and vendors. Deliberate dishonesty or expulsion. and misconduct are considered serious offenses and will be subject to a Disciplinary 2. NYFA expects all students, faculty and staff Review Hearing at which penalties will be to conduct themselves in a considerate imposed. manner. Students who disrupt classes may face disciplinary action. Behaving in an 6. Students are prohibited from paying or aggressive, harassing or threatening manner soliciting financial compensation from other to other students, faculty or staff can also students for services such as, but not limited result in suspension or expulsion. This to, production, pre-production, post- includes unauthorized use of cell phones, production and script consultation. smart watches, tablets and/or other Students are expected to complete their own electronic devices during class hours. work, unless otherwise approved by the instructor. 3. Slander, threatening remarks, sexual harassment, threats of violence and any Campus Safety & Security physical violence to any NYFA instructor, staff member or student will not be 7. Due to increased security, entering and tolerated. Any student who fails to comply exiting the Universal Studios or Warner with this rule will be subject to suspension Bros Backlot can be a very long and or expulsion. frustrating process. Students must be courteous and patient with all studio Creative & Academic Integrity personnel, security guards and staff. If a student feels a member of the Universal 4. NYFA expects all students to be responsible Studios or Warner Bros. staff has treated individuals who insist on high standards of him/her unfairly, the student can file an honesty, personal conduct and creative incident report with the Department Chairs integrity. All incidents of plagiarism, of NYFA for assistance. cheating, deliberate hindrance of other students’ work or other forms of dishonesty and misconduct are considered serious
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 21 8. Students are required to carry a valid photo or enter neighboring offices. Students may ID (Driver’s License, Official State not, under any circumstances, solicit Identification Card, Passport) as well as neighboring offices for employment. their NYFA Student ID Badge while on the premises of NYFA, Universal Studios 13. Students are responsible for the conduct of and/or Warner Bros. any related all guests brought to the premises, facilities, productions, official student functions or productions or events of NYFA. Students events. Failure to do so may result in the may be held liable for any Code of Conduct student being removed from such premises violations committed by such guests and at NYFA’s discretion. may face disciplinary action for all violations that occur. 9. Students are responsible for their NYFA student ID Badges. Any student caught Personal Care tampering with their badge, willingly 14. All students are required to maintain assisting another individual with attempting healthy and diligent personal hygiene. false or unauthorized entry into Universal Regular bathing, wearing of deodorant and Studios, Warner Bros., and/or NYFA frequent laundering of clothes are necessary property will be subject to immediate to ensure a healthy and comfortable disciplinary or legal action, including learning environment. Repeated complaints suspension or expulsion. and warnings about poor hygiene may warrant a disciplinary hearing.
10. Students found misusing or vandalizing property owned by NYFA, Universal Studios, Technology Warner Bros. or any of neighboring businesses will be subject to fines and/or 15. Students are strictly forbidden from tapping immediate suspension. any Ethernet lines of NYFA or adjoining businesses for their personal computers. Drug & Alcohol-Free Campus Our network holds confidential information and tapping into it poses a security risk. Any
11. Under no circumstances are drugs or student who fails to comply with this rule alcohol allowed on New York Film Academy will be subject to suspension and expulsion. premises. Anyone found to possess alcohol or any illegal substance will be subject to 16. Illegal downloading -- via torrents or other expulsion. Any student found associating file sharing sites -- is not permitted using with a student in possession of alcohol or NYFA’s computers or NYFA’s illegal substances will be subject to wireless/wired networks. Anyone caught suspension and will meet with the Director doing this will be subject to immediate to determine if he/she will be expelled. disciplinary action by the New York Film Academy. Furthermore, anyone caught downloading illegal material may be subject On-Campus Conduct to legal action under federal law. 12. Students must remain quiet in the hallways and general areas on campus and 17. Students are prohibited from recording class surrounding NYFA and must not approach lectures without written permission from the Director of NYFA.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 22 18. Cyber-bullying against any NYFA student, editing privileges, suspension of equipment staff member or faculty is strictly prohibited. checkout privileges or removal from final Additionally, students are reminded that film screenings. they represent NYFA during production workshops, off-campus shoots or 20. Firearms, pellet guns, ammunition, knives, collaborations. Any form of cyber-bullying martial arts weapons, dangerous chemicals, towards individuals working with NYFA fireworks or explosives of any kind under any capacity, is also prohibited. (regardless of license) are never permitted on NYFA property or the property of Universal Cyber-bullying encompasses all use of Studios or Warner Bros. Any student found technology to harm or harass others. This in violation of this code will be subject to includes, but is not limited to: expulsion or criminal prosecution.
• unwanted contact or harassment via social 21. Students are only permitted the use of prop media, emails, phone calls or text messages guns or prop weapons on green-lit • threatening emails, instant messages, calls or text messages productions, with the express approval of • fraud or identity theft: impersonating the instructor and Department Chair, and someone or creating a false identity when licensed by the local permitting office, • hacking someone’s email or social media such as Film, LA Inc., City of Burbank. account
• spreading false or private information 22. Any student or crewmember participating in • creating websites to rate peers or faculty/staff the filming of a project featuring the or to mock or harass someone unauthorized use of a prop gun is subject to • sharing photos or videos online or via text expulsion. Any student or crewmember without the subject’s consent participating in the filming of a weekend project featuring the use or display of a real Students found engaging in cyber-bullying firearm in any setting is subject to expulsion will face a thorough investigation and and will be reported to the authorities for disciplinary action, up to and including further investigation. Any recorded media expulsion. that is found to be in violation of the preceding rules may be confiscated and Production & Post-Production destroyed. 19. Students must follow all Editing and Post- 23. To maintain on-set safety, students who Production Department guidelines for wish to film stunt or action sequences must proper conduct in the editing facilities and first complete the Action Sequence for using all NYFA editing and post- Authorization Request Form and submit the production equipment. The guidelines following documentation to the Director of range from how to correctly handle the Operations (Brad Ben-Hain): equipment to the times editing is permitted. • Shooting script Students must follow similar guidelines with • Storyboards regard to filmmaking equipment. These • Shot lists guidelines will be outlined on the first day • Proof of outside production insurance for of classes. Failure to comply with these the action sequence, with worker’s guidelines will result in disciplinary compensation measures, including temporary loss of
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 23 Once approval has been granted and all the of the campus or studio backlot, including requisite paperwork has been cleared, the parking lot, lobby, common areas and students may film their stunt or action hallways. In order to film in classrooms, sequence under the supervision of an students must place a refundable deposit outside stunt coordinator. at the Bursar's Office, check for classroom availability at the front desk and complete 24. Students are responsible for props and the required paperwork. For details on wardrobe at all times while in their booking classrooms for shoots, please refer possession. If props or wardrobe are to the Student Handbook. damaged in any way, students are • Students may not scream or make any responsible for the replacement value other disruptive noise for any reason. dictated either by the NYFA or the Universal Studios Property/Wardrobe Actionable Conduct Departments. 26. Students who fail to abide by the NYFA 25. Students must read and adhere to all rules Code of Conduct and Institutional Policies, in the Student Handbook and Production as outlined in the Course Catalog and Handbook while on campus, at any Student Handbook, may be subject to Academy-sponsored events and/or on the disciplinary action, including suspension or Universal Studios or Warner Bros. Backlot: expulsion from NYFA. Students must be respectful of Universal • Studios and Warner Bros. tram tours.
Students must not stray from the set on • which they are filming.
• Students may not climb onto building rooftops or film at any unsanctioned areas
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 24 REGISTRATION & COURSE SCHEDULES
complete, the student’s account is enrolled at REGISTRATION the Registrar’s Office. Any missing documents may result in a freeze of that student’s account. Two weeks prior to the program start date, students will be emailed registration details, including date, time and location. STUDENT ID BADGES Registration takes place on the first day of classes for Community Education programs Students will be issued an ID badge with their and typically one day prior to the first day of name and photograph. Badges must be classes for long-term certificate, undergraduate presented to Security Staff before entering the and graduate programs. Brick Building and carried at all times when in all NYFA buildings or on the Universal When students arrive to register, they receive Backlot. a checklist of documents that must be submitted during the registration process. If a Students will have their photo taken at the student has not paid his/her tuition or has beginning of their program. Badges are not been cleared for Financial Aid, he/she retrieved from the Bursar’s Office after paying must do so at the Bursar’s Office. Students a $30.00 deposit and are to be returned after cannot register until tuition payment has completion of the program, whereupon cleared. students’ deposits are reimbursed. If badges are lost or stolen, that deposit is forfeited and International students must bring passports an additional $30.00 fee will be assessed upon and completed I-20 forms to the International reissue. Student Office to fill out the International Student Registration Form and Guidelines in NYFA EMAIL ACCOUNTS order to maintain F-1 status. When students receive their student ID Lastly, students must fill out an Enrollment badges, they will receive a printout with their Agreement, School Performance Fact Sheet, new NYFA email address and password. If and Registration Packet. The Registration this information is lost, students can contact Packet includes the NYFA Course Catalog, [email protected] to retrieve it. NYFA Student Handbook, FERPA release form, emails are to be used only for school/industry students' permanent address and contact related business and do not expire after information, visual/audio image release form students’ completion of programs. and information regarding Learning Resources at NYFA. COURSE SCHEDULE All students must submit an official transcript Students will receive a copy of their course must to the Registrar's Office or fill out a schedule by email prior to the start of each waiver form stating he/she will not receive semester or workshop. Questions regarding proof of program completion until an official course schedules should be directed to transcript is received. After this paperwork is Department Chairs or Coordinators.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 25 TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING
students seeking roommates. NYFA is not HOUSING INFORMATION responsible for assigning roommates, and students must contact [email protected] NYFA does not provide dormitory facilities or to fill out a questionnaire if they wish to be on-campus housing, and has no responsibility added to the roommate list. Students are to find housing for students. As a courtesy, off- responsible for contacting prospective campus housing information is provided by the roommates and resolving any disputes or NYFA LA Housing Office, and a brochure is issues on their own. available on the NYFA website. The New York Film Academy does not inspect, endorse or assume any responsibility for any properties, PARKING accommodations or other housing options or websites. Free parking is available to students on a first- come first-serve basis at the 3300 Riverside Students should expect a range of costs in building. housing (on average between $1000-$2000 per month for a studio or one-bedroom), For parking at 3800 Barham, please see the depending on the location, size, apartment Service Parking Corp. office in the 3800 complex, amenities and length of stay. Barham parking structure. Parking at 3800 Barham is solely handled by Service Parking Students are strongly advised to find suitable Corp; rates and terms of use are subject to housing prior to their program start date. The change at the discretion of Service Parking landlord or management company will often Corp. request proof of income, credit, insurance and other documents. Prior to making final PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION arrangements or signing a rental agreement, students should thoroughly investigate and Students who commute to the Universal inspect any properties, accommodations or Metro Station or live in downtown Burbank other housing options and review any legal can view the maps and public transportation document prior to entering a contractual timetables included in this handbook, to get agreement. NYFA bears no responsibility in to and from the Riverside campus from those any lease or rental agreements signed by locations. To search for the best route and students. times for your needs, please check http://www.metro.net. Students can contact the NYFA LA Housing office by phone (818-295-2020) or email Any questions or comments regarding [email protected] for more information or parking & transportation should be directed help in finding suitable housing in Los Angeles. to [email protected] The NYFA LA Housing Coordinator also provides a Roommate Questionnaire and database, with contact information for NYFA
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 26 BICYCLES
A bicycle rack is located by the P1 Entrance gate at 3300 Riverside. Please note that students lock their bicycles at their own risk, and the New York Film Academy is not responsible for loss or theft.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 27 LIBRARY, FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT
The New York Film Academy has access to LIBRARY RESOURCES several rotating backlot locations and standing sets in Los Angeles. Students have access to the NYFA Library Facilities and equipment available to students during all hours of operation. The Library include: includes the following resources:
• WiFi Internet CLASSROOMS • Full-text periodical databases New York Film Academy has over 60 • Access to the OCLC online library classrooms of varying size. Each room is • Books, periodicals and screenplays equipped with a Blu-ray player and • DVD/Blu-ray movie collection whiteboard. • Inter-library loan services • Headshot binders DANCE STUDIOS Below are the Library’s circulation guidelines: Acting for Film Students have access to five • Library materials are available to students dance studios equipped with ballet poles, and staff Monday–Friday from 9:00 AM– mirrors, yoga mats, and yoga pads. 10:00 PM and on Saturday from 12:00 PM– 5:00 PM SOUND STAGES • Library materials may not be taken off NYFA premises without proper checkout. Students have access to three open-space DVDs/Blu-rays may be viewed anytime stages to film scenes for projects totaling during school hours in the student lounge nearly 2500 square feet. or on a school computer • Current students must present their Student PROPS, WARDROBE & SET ID badge or driver’s license/passport when checking out library materials DRESSING • Students may check out DVDs/Blu-rays for a three-day period, screenplays for a seven- Students have props, costumes, and set day period and books for two weeks. Items decoration options available to them for may be renewed via email at projects. These props include: dishes, glasses, [email protected] pots/pans, pillows, trays, pictures, bottles, • Course reserve books will either be available books, magazines, etc. couches, folding tables, as “Library Use Only” items or as three-day chairs, cots, boxes, shelving units, lamps, checkout items. Course reserve DVDs/Blu- plants, etc. rays will either be available as “Library Use Only” items or as a one-day checkout items.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 28 AUTOMATED DIALOG COMPUTER AREAS REPLACEMENT Final Draft, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid The two Automated Dialog Replacement Media Composer, Avid Pro Tools, EP Movie (ADR) booths are furnished with: Magic Budgeting and Scheduling, Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, • 27" iMac 2.8GHz i5 Processor Premier Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore, (QP1020FCDNR) running Avid ProTools Speedgrade, Media Encoder, Bridge, Acrobat • Digidesign 003+ Rack with 8XLR inputs Pro), Blinkbid, Capture One Pro, Nik • Digidesign D-Control 24 track mixing Software board • 2x Genelec 8020B 4" studio monitors • Sony 55-Inch Bravia BX520-Series LCD PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO HDTV • Behringer Minimon Mon800 talkback mic Photography production lab includes 11 system computers, an Eizo Color Edge 24” external • AKG C 414 XLS microphone with color calibrated monitor, Epson film and windscreen/pop filter and mic stand flatbed scanner, 4x printers, dye sublimation • Sennheiser MKH 416 short shotgun paper, grip hardware, a lightbox for microphone evaluating negatives, Profoto and Dynalite studio strobe systems, Impact, Interfit, and • ART HeadAMP V Headphone Amplifier - 5 Channel Level Control PocketWizard wireless strobe triggers, and various size cameras. In these booths students can work on Foley, sound effects, and audio recording for EQUIPMENT ROOM projects. Available to our students is equipment POST-PRODUCTION & corresponding to the course requirements. The camera options include: Arri-S (16mm), COMPUTING Canon 5D DSLR, Panasonic HMC150, Arri SR3 16mm (super 16mm), RED Scarlet-X, Post-production facilities include seven Avid RED Epic-MX, and Arriflex BL 535 (35mm). suites, one ProTools lab, two game design labs, These cameras have appropriate accessory one animation lab complete with Maya, packages including: lenses, assistant camera ZBrush, and Adobe Creative Cloud. Students kits, shoulder rigs, dollies, and jibs. There have access to 50+ computers with industry- are several grip & electric options ranging standard software for projects including: Final from basic three-point lighting kits to Draft and Entertainment Partners Budgeting complete 1-ton lighting packages. Audio and Scheduling. options include field recorders and mixers, as well as shotgun and lavalier microphones.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 29 STUDENT RESOURCES
your study. More details can be found at these VETERAN AFFAIRS U.S. government sources: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types NYFA’s Veterans Services Office assists _1268.html veterans in their transition to civilian and http://studyinthestates.dhs.gov/ campus life. These services include: The International Student Office does not • Simplifying VA educational benefits issue F-1 visas, nor does it provide visa- • Assisting with post-deployment transition expediting services, as only the U.S. embassy issues has this power. Please apply early enough to • Evaluating students’ academic records or allow time for the visa process in your country. military/educational training • Aiding in choosing the program that best If you are in the U.S. on a different type of suits individuals’ personal and visa, please contact the International Student professional goals Office with specifics about your situation. • Giving referrals to community-based Some other visa statuses do allow study, such organizations and the Department of as H-4 and other dependent visas. Veterans Affairs NYFA’s International Student Office advises all international students on matters INTERNATIONAL STUDENT pertaining to: obtaining visas, maintenance of OFFICE immigration status, legal work authorization and other issues relating to non-U.S. citizens The New York Film Academy is authorized living in the U.S. under federal law to admit non-immigrant alien students. In accordance with U.S. The international office is responsible for Department of Homeland Security regulations, reporting to SEVIS (Student Exchange and the International Student Office may issue an Visitor Interactive System) whether or not an I-20 Certificate of Eligibility for F-1 student F-1 visa student is attending school each term. status Form, to students who have been fully In this way, we vouch for the status of each admitted to the school. There is a $150 student to the U.S. Department of Homeland International Student fee per student, per Security. program. For further information regarding student To obtain an F-1 student visa, you must visas, please email [email protected] or schedule an appointment for a visa interview call the main office number and ask to speak at a consular section of a U.S. embassy in your with the International Student Advisor. country of citizenship or residence and provide all necessary documentation, including evidence of available funds to pay for tuition and living costs for the duration of
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 30 LEARNING DIFFERENCES to prepare for and expand their professional experiences outside of NYFA. A strong Students applying to NYFA with identified foundation and understanding of the business learning differences may have been eligible for and the skills needed to compete allow our special services provided by their previous students to thrive throughout their academic public or private school known as experience and as they venture into their Individualized Education Programs (IEP). professional careers. Students with an established IEP are We assist students in the development of their encouraged to meet with the Student personal and professional goals and create Advocate prior to or during their first week of action plans to help them achieve those classes to evaluate special accommodations goals. The department aids students as they that may be necessary. This review may result design their résumés, cover letters, and other in any of the following special business correspondence. We work with accommodations designed to enhance the students on their presentation skills to prepare learning process: them for interviews and meetings. IOPD • Extended testing periods works with industry experts to expand • Note taking assistance students’ professional experiences.
• Specialized one-on-one tutoring The Industry Outreach and Professional Development Department is a resource to aid INDUSTRY OUTREACH & students. The school makes no representation that any of its programs will result in PROFESSIONAL employment or in a career or vocation in any DEVELOPMENT particular area of filmmaking. The Academy's main goal is to enrich its The Industry Outreach and Professional students as visual storytellers by helping them Development Department (IOPD) is a realize their personal artistic visions, as stated resource for current students and alumni to in the mission statement. gain the real world knowledge and know-how
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 31 ACADEMIC RESOURCES
the learning resources required to successfully ACADEMIC ADVISING complete each student’s educational program. Students in one-year or two-year certificate program, and all degree-granting programs LIBRARY RESOURCES are advised on their academic progress through the Office of the Dean of Students Students have access to the NYFA Library and the Office of the Dean for Academic during all hours of operation. The Library Advising. Students are also assigned a Faculty includes the following resources: Mentor by their Department Chair to • Full-text periodical databases monitor their artistic development. • Access to the OCLC online library • Books, periodicals and screenplays • DVD/Blu-ray movie collection LEARNING DIFFERENCES • Inter-library loan services Headshot binders Students applying to NYFA with identified • learning differences may have been eligible Below are the Library’s circulation guidelines: for special services provided by their previous public or private school known as • Library materials are available to students Individualized Education Programs (IEP). and staff Monday–Friday from 9:00 AM– Students with an established IEP are 10:00 PM and on Saturday from 12:00 PM– encouraged to meet with the Dean of 5:00 PM Students prior to or during their first week of • Library materials may not be taken off classes to evaluate special accommodations NYFA premises without proper checkout. that may be necessary. This review may result DVDs/Blu-rays may be viewed anytime in any of the following special during school hours in the student lounge accommodations designed to enhance the or on a school computer learning process: • Current students must present their Student ID badge or driver’s license/passport when • Extended testing periods checking out library materials • Note taking assistance Students may check out DVDs/Blu-rays for • Specialized one-on-one tutoring • a three-day period, screenplays for a seven- day period and books for two weeks. Items LEARNING RESOURCES may be renewed via email at DIRECTOR [email protected] • Course reserve books will either be available The Learning Resources Director is available as “Library Use Only” items or as three-day to students for assistance in locating all checkout items. Course reserve DVDs/Blu- research resources, including library holding, rays will either be available as “Library Use Internet and other online services. On the Only” items or as a one-day checkout items. first day of class, the Learning Resources Director will conduct an orientation on all research techniques and strategies to access
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 32 LIBRARY FINE POLICY
All Library rentals must be returned on time. If a student has an unpaid fine or overdue item, a hold will be placed on his/her account. Students on hold cannot receive certificates of completion, diplomas or gain access to transcripts. The Fine Policy is as follows:
• $0.50 per item, per day past due
• If an item is 21 or more days past due, the student will be billed $20.00 or the replacement cost of the item, whichever is higher, in addition to a non-refundable $5.00 processing fee.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 33 TUITION & COSTS
All tuition costs are listed in USD and are Producing: subject to change. Please check the NYFA Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. website for any updates in tuition, equipment Equipment Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. or lab fees. Students will also incur additional expenses on their own productions. This Total Tuition (Thesis Options A,B): $ 80,000. varies depending on the scale of the projects, Total Tuition (Thesis Option C): $100,000. how much film they shoot or how much of their work they choose to print. Photography: Total tuition costs are based on the prescribed st length of the program. Students who receive 1 Semester Tuition: $ 19,000. nd transfer credit for previous academic work or 2 Semester Tuition: $ 19,000. training may be entitled to a reduction in 3rd Semester Tuition: $ 16,000. tuition. This reduction in tuition would be on 4th Semester Tuition: $ 16,000. a pro-rated, per credit unit basis, depending Equipment & Lab Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. on the number and type of units transferred, Total Tuition: $ 74,000. and the course(s)/semester(s) to which they apply. Students have the option to pay tuition and Cinematography: institutional fees & charges in full, after the Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. student has been accepted and enrolled. Equipment Fee: $ 2,000 per semester. Tuition is due 30 days prior to the first day of Total Tuition: $80,000. class.
Documentary: MASTER OF FINE ARTS Tuition: $10,000 per semester. Equipment Fee: $ 667 per semester. Filmmaking: Total Tuition: $64,002. Tuition: $ 12,666 per semester.
Equipment Fee: $ 1,334 per semester. Total Tuition (Thesis Option A): $ 84,000 Game Design: Total Tuition (Thesis Option B): $ 98,000 Tuition: $ 15,000 per semester. Equipment Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $64,000. Acting for Film: Tuition: $ 15,750 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 63,000 MASTER OF ARTS
Screenwriting: Media Production: Tuition: $ 14,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 56,000 Equipment Fee: $ 2,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 63,000.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 34 Equipment Fee: $ 1,334 per semester. BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS Total Tuition: $ 84,000. Filmmaking: Tuition: $ 12,666 per semester. Acting for Film: Equipment Fee: $ 1,334 per semester. Tuition: $ 15,750 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 126,000. Total Tuition: $ 63,000.
Acting for Film: Screenwriting: Tuition: $ 11,812.50 per semester. Tuition: $ 14,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 94,500. Total Tuition: $ 56,000.
Game Design: Screenwriting: Tuition: $ 15,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 10,500 per semester. Equipment Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 84,000. Total Tuition: $ 64,000. Producing: Tuition: $ 14,333 per semester. Producing: Equipment Fee: $ 667 per semester. Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 120,000. Equipment Fee: $ 1,000 per semester.
Total Tuition: $ 80,000. Photography: Tuition: $ 13,000 per semester. Equipment & Lab Fee: $ 600 per semester. CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Total Tuition: $ 112,000. Two-Year Photography: Game Design: 1st Semester Tuition: $ 19,000. nd Tuition: $ 10,000 per semester. 2 Semester Tuition: $ 19,000. rd Lab Fee: $ 666 per semester. 3 Semester Tuition: $ 16,000. th Total Tuition: $ 112,000. 4 Semester Tuition: $ 16,000. Equipment & Lab Fee: $ 1,000. 3-D Animation: Total Tuition: $ 74,000. Tuition: $ 11,250 per semester. Lab Fee: $ 750 per semester. One-Year Filmmaking: Total Tuition: $ 96,000. Tuition: $ 12,666 per semester. Equipment Fee: $ 1,334 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 80,000. ASSOCIATE OF FINE ARTS Filmmaking: One-Year Acting for Film: Tuition: $ 12,666 per semester. Tuition: $ 15,750 per semester.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 35 Total Tuition: $ 31,500. COMMUNITY EDUCATION One-Year Screenwriting: 8-Week Filmmaking: Tuition: $ 14,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 5,300. Total Tuition: $ 28,000. Equipment Fee: $ 1,000.
Total Tuition: $ 6,300. One-Year Producing: Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. 8-Week Acting for Film: Equipment Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. Total Tuition: $ 5,500. Total Tuition: $ 40,000. 8-Week Screenwriting: One-Year Photography: Total Tuition: $ 3,300.
Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. 8-Week Photography: Equipment & Lab Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 5,800. Total Tuition: $ 40,000. Equipment & Lab Fee: $ 500. One-Year Cinematography: Total Tuition: $ 6,300.
Tuition: $ 19,000 per semester. Holiday Film: Equipment Fee: $ 2,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 2,200. Total Tuition: $ 42,000. Equipment Fee: $ 500. Total Tuition: $ 2,700. One-Year Documentary: Tuition: $10,000 per semester. 6-Week Filmmaking: Equipment Fee: $ 667 per semester. Tuition: $ 4,200. Total Tuition: $ 32,001. Equipment Fee: $ 750. Total Tuition: $ 4,950. One-Year Game Design: Tuition: $ 15,000 per semester. 6-Week Film (Documentary Focus): Equipment Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 4,200. Total Tuition: $ 32,000. Equipment Fee: $ 750. Total Tuition: $ 4,950. One-Year 3-D Animation: 4-Week Filmmaking Tuition: $ 15,000 per semester. Tuition: $ 3,300. Lab Fee: $ 1,000 per semester. Equipment Fee: $ 500. Total Tuition: $ 32,000. Total Tuition: $ 3,800.
4-Week Editing Tuition: $ 3,650. Equipment Fee: $ 500.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 36 4-Week Acting for Film 12-Week Evening Screenwriting Total Tuition: $ 3,800. Total Tuition: $ 2,800.
12-Week Evening Filmmaking 12-Week Evening Producing Tuition: $ 3,300. Total Tuition: $ 3,860. Equipment Fee: $ 500. Total Tuition: $ 3,800. 1-Week Digital Filmmaking Tuition: $ 1,500. 12-Week Evening Digital Filmmaking Equipment Fee: $125 Tuition: $ 3,300. Total Tuition: $ 1625. Equipment Fee: $ 500. Total Tuition: $ 3,800. 1-Week Acting for Film Total Tuition: $ 1,100. 12-Week Evening Digital Editing Total Tuition: $ 3,650.
12-Week Evening Acting for Film Total Tuition: $ 3,300.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 37
ONE-YEAR FILMMAKING EXPECTED SUPPLIES COSTS
• Processing SEMESTER ONE • DVD • Food & Craft Services Mise-En-Scene Film • Student Film Permits • Two Rolls Color Film Stock • Props/Wardrobe • Processing • Transportation • DVD • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services • Student Film Permits POV • Props/Wardrobe • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • Location Fees • Processing • Transportation • DVD • Food & Craft Services Continuity Film • Student Film Permits • Four Rolls Color Film Stock • Props/Wardrobe • Processing • Transportation • DVD • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services • Student Film Permits Chekhovian • Props/Wardrobe • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • Location Fees • Processing • Transportation • DVD • Food & Craft Services Music Video • Student Film Permits • Four Rolls Color Film Stock • Props/Wardrobe • Processing • Transportation • DVD • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services Digital Dialogue - 2 day Production • Student Film Permits Food & Craft Services • Props/Wardrobe • Student Film Permits • Location Fees • Props/Wardrobe • Transportation • • Location Fees Non-Sync Film • Transportation • Ten Rolls Color Film Stock Additional Cost for Semester One:
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 38 Hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • SEMESTER THREE
SEMESTER TWO Intermediate Film (Digital) • Props/Wardrobe Synchronous Sound Production Workshops • Location Fees • 2 Hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Props/Wardrobe • Student Film Permits • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Transportation YEARLY TOTAL EXPECTED
SUPPLIED COSTS
One-Year Filmmaking: $6,000
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 39 AFA FILMMAKING EXPECTED SUPPLIES COSTS
• Food & Craft Services SEMESTER ONE • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe Mise-En-Scene Film • Transportation • Two Rolls Color Film Stock • Location Fees • Processing POV • DVD • Food & Craft Services • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • Student Film Permits • Processing • Props/Wardrobe • DVD • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services • Transportation • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe Continuity Film • Transportation • Four Rolls Color Film Stock • Location Fees • Processing Chekhovian • DVD • Food & Craft Services • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • Student Film Permits • Processing • Props/Wardrobe • DVD • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services • Transportation • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe Music Video • Transportation • Location Fees • Four Rolls Color Film Stock • Processing Digital Dialogue - 2 day Production • DVD • Food & Craft Services • Food & Craft Services • Student Film Permits • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe • Props/Wardrobe • Location Fees • Location Fees
• Transportation • Transportation Additional Cost for Semester One: Non-Sync Film • Hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Ten Rolls Color Film Stock • Processing • DVD
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 40 • Location Fees SEMESTER TWO • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) Student Film Permits Synchronous Sound Production Workshops • • Food & Craft Services • 2 Hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Props/Wardrobe • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance • Location Fees • Transportation • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Transportation SEMESTER FIVE SEMESTER THREE (THESIS OPTION A) Short Thesis (Digital) - 10 day Intermediate Film (Digital) Production • Props/Wardrobe • 2x 1 terabyte hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Location Fees • Props/Wardrobe • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Location Fees • Student Film Permits • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Food & Craft Services • Student Film Permits • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Food & Craft Services • Transportation • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance • Transportation SEMESTER FOUR (THESIS OPTION A) SEMESTER SIX (THESIS OPTION A) Music Video (Digital) – 2 day Production • Props/Wardrobe Thesis Post Production • Location Fees • Backup Hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Transportation • Student Film Permits • Food & Craft Services • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) YEARLY TOTAL EXPECTED • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance SUPPLIED COSTS • Transportation AFA Filmmaking Year One Synchronous Sound Production Workshop II Option A & B: $6,000 • Props/Wardrobe AFA Filmmaking Year Two Option A: $9,900
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 41 BFA FILMMAKING EXPECTED SUPPLIES COSTS
• Student Film Permits SEMESTER ONE • Props/Wardrobe • Location Fee Mise-En-Scene Film • DVD • Two Rolls Color Film Stock • Transportation • Processing • Food & Craft Services SEMESTER ONE ADDITIONAL • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe COSTS • Location Fees
• DVD • Hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Transportation SEMESTER TWO Continuity Film • Four Rolls Color Film Stock POV • Processing • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • Food & Craft Services • Processing • Student Film Permits • DVD • Props/Wardrobe • Food & Craft Services • Location Fees • Student Film Permits • DVD • Props/Wardrobe • Transportation • Transportation • Location Fees Music Video • Four Rolls Color Film Stock Chekhovian • Processing • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • DVD • Processing • Food & Craft Services • DVD • Student Film Permits • Food & Craft Services • Props/Wardrobe • Student Film Permits • Location Fees • Props/Wardrobe • Transportation • Transportation • Location Fees Non-Sync Film Digital Dialogue - 2 day Production • Ten Rolls Color Film Stock • Processing • Food & Craft Services • Food & Craft Services • Student Film Permits
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 42 • Props/Wardrobe • Food & Craft Services • Location Fees • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Transportation • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance • Transportation SEMESTER THREE SEMESTER SEVEN Synchronous Sound Production Workshop I/Drawing Director’s Craft IIIB (Music Video/ Commercial) • 2 Hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Props/Wardrobe • Props/Wardrobe • Location Fee • Location Fees • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Drawing Kit • Student Film Permits • Transportation • Food & Craft Services • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance SEMESTER FOUR • Transportation Intermediate Film (Digital) • Props/Wardrobe SEMESTER EIGHT • Location Fees Short Thesis (Digital) - 10 day Production • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Student Film Permits • 2x 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Food & Craft Services • Props/Wardrobe • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Location Fees • Transportation • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Student Film Permits • Food & Craft Services SEMESTER FIVE • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance Transportation Cinematography III • • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Transportation YEARLY TOTAL EXPECTED SUPPLIED COSTS SEMESTER SIX BFA Year One Options A & B: $6,000.00 Synchronous Sound Production Workshop III • Props/Wardrobe BFA Year Two Options A & B: $4,450.00 • Location Fees BFA Year Three Options A & B: • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) $7,750.00 • Student Film Permits
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 43 MFA FILMMAKING EXPECTED SUPPLIES COST
• Student Film Permits SEMESTER ONE • Props/Wardrobe • Location Fees Mise-En-Scene Film • DVD • Two Rolls Color Film Stock • Transportation • Processing • Food & Craft Services POV • Student Film Permits • Eight Rolls Color Film Stock • Props/Wardrobe • Processing • Location Fees • DVD • DVD • Food & Craft Services • Transportation • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe Continuity Film • Transportation • Four Rolls Color Film Stock • Location Fees • Processing Digital Dialogue (Digital) - 2 day • Food & Craft Services Production • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe • Food & Craft Services • Location Fees • Student Film Permits • DVD • Props/Wardrobe • Transportation • Location Fees • Transportation Music Video • Four Rolls Color Film Stock SEMESTER ONE ADDITIONAL • Processing COSTS • DVD
• Food & Craft Services • Hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Student Film Permits • Props/Wardrobe • Location Fees SEMESTER TWO • Transportation Synchronous Sound Production Workshops Non-Sync Film & 35mm • 2 Hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Ten Rolls Color Film Stock • Props/Wardrobe • Processing: • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 44 • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Transportation • Transportation SEMESTER FIVE SEMESTER THREE (THESIS OPTION B)
Intermediate Film (Digital) • Additional Pre-Production Hard drive (G • Props/Wardrobe Drive Mini 1TB) • Location Fees • Transportation • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Student Film Permits • Food & Craft Services SEMESTER SIX • 1 terabyte hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) (THESIS OPTION A) • Transportation Thesis Post Production SEMESTER FOUR • Backup Hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) (THESIS OPTION A) • Transportation
• Pre-Production Hard drive (G Drive Mini SEMESTER SIX 1TB) (THESIS OPTION B) • Transportation Thesis Pre-Production SEMESTER FOUR • Hard drive for Production Paperwork (G (THESIS OPTION B) Drive Mini 1TB)
• Transportation • Pre-Production Hard drive (G Drive Mini 1TB) SEMESTER SEVEN • Transportation (THESIS OPTION B)
SEMESTER FIVE Master’s Feature Thesis (Digital) – 18 (THESIS OPTION A) day Production • 4x 1 terabyte hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) Master’s Short Thesis (Digital) - 10 day • Props/Wardrobe Production • Location Fees • 2x 1 terabyte hard drives (G Drive Mini 1TB) • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Props/Wardrobe • Student Film Permits • Location Fees • Food & Craft Services • Film Expendables (tape, gels, etc.) • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance • Student Film Permits • Transportation • Food & Craft Services • Lift Gate Truck Rental + Insurance
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YEARLY TOTAL EXPECTED SUPPLIES COST:
MFA Year One: Options A & B $6,000.00
MFA YEAR TWO: OPTION A $6,600.00
MFA YEAR THREE: OPTION B $16,825.00
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 46 EXPECTED SUPPLIES COSTS
The chart below offers a comparison of costs Students have the option to “opt out” of the for the expected supplies for the One Year, New York Film Academy finance option by AFA, BFA or MFA Film Programs. New York purchasing these supplies independently. If Film Academy (NYFA) offers these supplies to you have chosen to purchase these supplies students at a discounted cost allowing the independently and not from New York Film student to finance these supplies through Academy, please sign the form and return it to their Financial Aid funding, Veterans the billing office during your registration Educational payments or through quarterly appointment. payment options.
SUPPLIES HARD COSTS
Item NYFA Price Retail price One Roll Color Film Stock $35 $37.57 Processing (Black/White & Color) $32 $41.75 DVD $1 $2 G Drive Mini 1 TB Hard Drive $195 $239
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 47 STUDENT TUITION RECOVERY FUND (STRF)
Effective January 1, 2015, The Bureau of failure began earlier than 30 days prior to Private Post-Secondary Education (BPPE) has closure, the period determined by the informed all participating schools, colleges Bureau. and universities that the current STRF 5. An inability after diligent efforts to assessment is $0 per $1000.00 of tuition prosecute, prove, and collect on a judgment charged for an approved program from against the institution for a violation of the students who are residents of the State of Act. California. As defined in section 94837 of the California Education Code, the State of However, no claim can be paid to any student California created the Student Tuition without a social security number or a taxpayer Recovery Fund (STRF) to relieve or mitigate identification number. economic losses suffered by students in educational programs who are California NYFA complies with these statutes by residents, or are enrolled in a residency collecting the STRF assessments during the program attending certain schools regulated registration process. The STRF assessment is by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary disclosed to students on their enrollment Education. agreement representing an estimate of total amounts for the entire program of You may be eligible for STRF if you are a study. NYFA reports the amounts collected California resident or are enrolled in a from students quarterly, remitting the total to residency program, prepaid tuition, paid the the BPPE. STRF assessment, and suffered an economic loss as a result of any of the following: You must pay the state-imposed assessment 1. The school closed before the course of for the Student Tuition Recovery Fund instruction was completed. (STRF) if all the following applies to you: 2. The school’s failure to pay refunds or 1. You are a student is in an educational charges on behalf of a student to a third program, who is a California resident, or party for license fees or any other purpose, are enrolled in a residency program, and or to provide equipment or materials for prepay all or part of your tuition either by which a charge was collected within 180 cash, guaranteed student loans, or personal days before the closure of the school. loans, and 3. The school’s failure to pay or reimburse 2. Your total charges are not paid by any loan proceeds under a federally guaranteed third-party payer such as an employer, student loan program as required by law or government program or other payer unless to pay or reimburse proceeds received by you have a separate agreement to repay the the school prior to closure in excess of third party. tuition and other costs. 4. There was a material failure to comply with You are not eligible for protection from the the Act or this Division within 30 days STRF and you are not required to pay the before the school closed or, if the material
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 48 STRF assessment, if either of the following applies: Refund Information: 1. You are not a California resident, or are A student has the right to a full refund of all not enrolled in a residency program, or charges (less the amount of $100.00 for the 2. Your total charges are paid by a third party, registration fee) if he/she cancels this such as an employer, government program agreement prior to 12:00 AM following the or other payer, and you have no separate first day of instruction or the seventh day after agreement to repay the third party. enrollment, whichever is later. The amount retained for the registration fee may not Buyer's Right To Cancel: exceed $100.00. A student has the right to cancel his/her enrollment agreement and obtain a refund of NYFA will refund 100% of the amount paid charges paid through attendance at the first for institutional charges (less an administrative class session or the seventh day after processing fee of $100.00) if notice of enrollment, whichever is later. A notice of cancellation is made within a seven-day period cancellation or withdrawal must be made in following enrollment. writing. The written request must include the date the course began and the date of After the 100% refund period described above, cancellation or withdrawal. Notice of a student may withdraw from a course after Withdrawal forms are available in the instruction has started and receive a pro rata Registrar’s Office. Any student who intends to refund (less a non-refundable administrative cancel or withdraw must submit a signed and processing fee of $100.00) for the unused dated copy of said form to: portion of the tuition and other refundable charges if he/she has completed 60% or less New York Film Academy of the term’s instruction. The amount of the 3300 W. Riverside Dr. refund is calculated based on the student’s last Burbank, CA 91505 day of attendance. Refunds are disbursed within 30 days of the official withdrawal date from NYFA, which is the day the student submitted written notice to the school.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 49 FINANCIAL AID
NYFA offers a variety of financial aid options, • What portion of the financial aid received including grant and loan opportunities. must be repaid, and what portion is grant Financial aid is designed to provide assistance aid to students whose personal and family • If aid is a loan – interest rates, the total resources cannot meet the full cost of amount to be repaid, payback procedures, education. Therefore, financial aid is only length of repayment period time you have to supplementary to the family’s own best efforts repay the loan and when the repayment is to to contribute to the student’s education. begin
If a student obtains a loan to pay for an It is the student’s responsibility to: educational program, the student will have the • Review all information about school responsibility to repay the full amount of the programs prior to enrollment loan plus interest, less the amount of any • Complete all application forms in a timely, refund, and that, if the student has received accurate manner and send to the correct federal student financial aid funds, the address student is entitled to a refund of the moneys • Accurately complete application for student not paid from federal student financial aid aid (errors can result in delays of receipt of program funds. financial aid, and intentional reporting of
false information on any application forms Students have the right to know: for federal financial aid is a violation of law
• What financial aid is available, including and considered a criminal offense subject information on all Federal and State to penalties under the US Criminal Code). programs • Return all additional information,
• The deadlines for submitting applications verification, corrections and/or new for each of the financial aid programs information requested by the Financial Aid available Office • The cost of attending the programs and the • Read and understand all the forms they are school’s refund policy required to sign and keep copies for their
• The criteria used by the institution to select own records the financial aid recipients • Accept responsibility for all signed • How the school determines financial need agreements ie.) costs for tuition, books and living • If aid is a loan – notify the lender of any expenses change in name, address or enrollment • What resources (outside scholarships and status. other financial aid, etc.) are considered in • Know and comply with the deadlines for the calculating need application or reapplication for aid How much financial need has been met • • Know and comply with NYFA’s refund • An explanation of the various programs in policy procedure the student aid package • Know and comply with NYFA’s Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 50 Credit Check forms can be completed at FINANCIAL NEED www.studentloans.gov. Students applying for financial aid are required to file the Free Application for LOAN PROGRAMS Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to be eligible for all financial aid options except for Federal student loans are required by law to selected scholarships. The FAFSA determines provide a range of flexible repayment options, Expected Family Contribution (EFC) based including, but not limited to, income-based on data supplied on the form. Financial need repayment, income-contingent repayment is the difference between the cost of plans, and loan forgiveness benefits, which attendance at NYFA and the EFC determined other student loans are not required to from the FAFSA. After financial need is provide. Additionally, federal direct loans are determined, an aid package to assist with that available to students regardless of income. financial need is developed for each student. The aid package is contingent upon when the All loans must be repaid in accordance with student applies, when the student is accepted, the repayment schedules established for each college resources available and funding levels individual loan. Sample loan repayment set by the Federal and State governments. schedules are available upon request. Entrance and exit interviews are required for receipt of Federal Direct Loan funds. Direct Loan HOW TO APPLY entrance interviews are completed online at www.studentloans.gov. Exit interviews are
1. Complete the FAFSA by going online to conducted either in person at an exit www.fafsa.ed.gov. interview session or online at
2. Submit requested verification www.studentloans.gov at the end of the documentation in a timely manner. Selected student’s enrollment. Terms and conditions applicants may be asked to submit signed of Direct Loan deferments for service in the copies of their Prior Year Federal Income Peace Corps, service under the Domestic Tax Return(s) and other verification forms Volunteer Service Act of 1973 and to NYFA for review. Financial aid cannot be comparable volunteer service for tax-exempt disbursed without these documents. organizations of demonstrated effectiveness in
3. Apply for Student Loans. To apply for a the field of community service are available at Direct Student Loan, students must exit interviews upon request. complete a Master Promissory Note (MPN) and Entrance Interview. The MPN and Entrance Interview are available online at DIRECT SUBSIDIZED www.studentloans.gov. Returning students STUDENT LOANS who want to reapply for Direct Loans need to file the FAFSA annually. The Direct Subsidized Student Loan is 4. Additional financial options: other loan interest-free until six months after the student options include the Parent PLUS Loan for ceases attending the school on at least a half- Undergraduate Students (PLUS), Graduate time basis. At that time, the interest and PLUS Loan for Graduate Students and principal are due and the student has up to alternative loans. PLUS Loan MPN and ten years to repay.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 51 financial aid awarded to the student for that DIRECT UNSUBSIDIZED year. The interest rate is fixed. If the parent is STUDENT LOANS denied for a PLUS loan, the dependent student may borrow an additional Direct Interest is due quarterly on the Direct Unsubsidized Student Loan in his or her own Unsubsidized Student Loan while the student name. Parents should go to is in school. Students have the option to defer www.studentloans.gov to apply. this interest payment while in school and allow the interest to be capitalized. Interest rates for Direct Loans are fixed. ALTERNATIVE LOAN PROGRAMS Based on the information received on the FAFSA, the student may receive either a Alternative loans are designed to assist Subsidized Direct Loan, Unsubsidized Direct students and their families who need to Loan or a combination of both loans. The borrow additional funds to meet the cost of total cannot exceed the following maximums NYFA education. Loan approval is generally per loan period: based on creditworthiness and ability to repay. • $3,500 Subsidized – $2,000 Unsubsidized The primary borrower for an alternative loan (Freshman) is the student. However, most dependent students require a creditworthy co-signer. The • $4,500 Subsidized – $2,000 Unsubsidized interest on an alternative loan does accrue (Sophomore) while the student is in school and may be paid or deferred until after graduation or when the • $8,500 Subsidized – $12,000 Unsubsidized student ceases to be enrolled at least half-time. (Graduate) The principal can also be paid or deferred If the student is an independent until after graduation or when the student undergraduate student, according to federal ceases to be enrolled at least half-time. As with requirements, he/she may be eligible to any loan, careful consideration should be used borrow an additional Direct Unsubsidized when determining amounts to be borrowed, Student Loan. Freshman and sophomore as the loan must be repaid. students may borrow an additional $4,000.00/year. Not all private loans are the same with regard to approval rates, ease of application, desirable repayment terms, interest rate, loan fees, DIRECT PLUS LOAN eligibility requirements and borrower benefits. For additional information on alternative The Direct PLUS loan is available to parents loans, please visit the Financial Aid Section of of dependent students and require a credit the NYFA website located at www.nyfa.edu. check. The student must be enrolled at least For exact terms and conditions, students must half-time (six credits per semester) and be contact their lenders. meeting SAP standards to be eligible for this loan. The maximum that may be borrowed per year is the difference between the cost of attendance for that year and the other
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 52 Completed application, essay and OTHER TYPES OF FINANCIAL documentation should be submitted to the ASSISTANCE Financial Aid Office. Completed applications are reviewed and students are notified within Private Scholarship Sources: four weeks of their funding awards. For more While it takes some effort to find these information, students may contact Brian competitive private sources, it is well worth Koplow via email: [email protected] the time to locate additional funds. High school guidance counselors, public libraries, the Office of Financial Aid and websites for FINANCIAL AID PROBATION scholarship searches are the best sources for students to locate other unique opportunities Financial Aid Probation is not the same as for financial assistance. Academic Probation. After being placed on Financial Aid Probation, the student will Veterans Administration Benefits: receive federal financial aid for the subsequent semester of enrollment, but must meet all Veterans Educational Benefits are available SAP requirements at the end of the semester. for prospective students as well as children If he/she does not do so, federal financial aid and spouses of veterans who have died or eligibility will be suspended. While on were totally disabled in the service. For more Financial Aid Probation, no appeal or information, students should contact the reapplication for aid is necessary. Veterans Administration at 1-888-442-4551 or Office of Financial Aid. The Office of Financial Aid notifies the Veterans FINANCIAL AID SUSPENSION Administration if a student receiving Veteran Benefits does not meet the academic progress Financial Aid Suspension is not the same as requirements after serving a probationary Academic Suspension. The student losses period of two semesters. eligibility for Federal Student Aid until he/she successfully completes one term at NYFA. If NYFA Need-Based Tuition Discount: the student was experiencing extenuating NYFA is pleased to offer a need-based tuition medical or emotional circumstances that discount to qualifying students. This is an negatively impacted his/her academic institutional-based tuition discount (up to performance, the student may appeal the $15,000.00) to help pay for a portion of the suspension. student’s cost of education in all NYFA programs. FINANCIAL AID POLICIES To qualify for this aid, candidates must show a credible need through documentation (i.e. Disbursement Of Financial Aid: personal income tax or parents’ income tax Federal, state and school grants for each statement), translated to English and semester are deducted approximately two converted to US dollars (if necessary). weeks after the add/drop period of each Additionally, applicants must submit an essay semester, as long as the student has complied describing accomplishments and justification with all financial aid requirements. First-time for consideration of NYFA’s Tuition Discount. borrowers in the Federal Direct Loan Program
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 53 will have their loan funding disbursed 30 days withdrawal disbursement which must be paid after the beginning of classes. within 120 days of the student’s withdrawal. Permission from the student may be required Direct Loan/Direct PLUS recipients should to issue the post-withdrawal disbursement. deduct origination and rebate fees from loan approval amounts. Direct Loan/Direct PLUS Written notification will be provided to the proceeds are sent directly to the school. student and must be signed and returned Students are notified when loans have been within a specified period of time in order to credited and have the option to cancel all or a credit the funds to a student’s account. NYFA portion of those loans. Students with outside must return the amount of funds for which it scholarships should notify the Office of is responsible no later than 45 days after the Financial Aid by sending a copy of the award date of the student’s withdrawal. letter. The amount must be included as a financial aid resource and may affect the Refunds are allocated in the following order: student’s eligibility for previously awarded aid. • Unsubsidized Direct Student Loans (other than PLUS loans) Financial Aid Refund Policy: • Direct Subsidized Student Loans In accordance with the 1998 Code of Federal • Federal Perkins Loans Regulations (CFR) 668.22, the Office of • Direct PLUS loans Financial Aid is required by federal statutes to • Federal Pell Grants for which a return of determine how much federal financial aid was funds is required earned by students who withdraw, drop out, • Academic Competitiveness Grant have been dismissed or have taken a leave of • National SMART Grant absence prior to completing 60% of the • Federal Supplemental Opportunity Grants program. If a student earned less aid than was for which a return of funds is required disbursed, the institution would be required • Other assistance under this Title for which to return a portion of the funds and the return of funds is required (e.g. LEAP) student may also be required to return a portion of the funds. If a student earned more aid than was disbursed to him/her, the institution would owe the student a post-
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 54 NEED-BASED TUITION DISCOUNT
Many qualified applicants to the New York 3) Student Financial Documentation (all Film Academy do not have the financial students) demonstrating annual household resources to afford the cost of attendance. income. For U.S. Citizens, Tax returns are While many of these programs are eligible for required. For international students tax Federal Aid, this is often not sufficient to return or other documentation clearly make our programs affordable to all students demonstrating annual income. Please note, in who would benefit from the education we the event that tax returns are unavailable, the provide. In order to address this hardship, the following may be used: Social Security New York Film Academy offers a Need-Based Documents; W2 Forms; or Bank Statements. Tuition Discount to all students in the same 4) Parents Financial Documentation (students circumstances. To qualify, applicants must under 26 years of age) demonstrating annual demonstrate the need for the tuition discount household income. For U.S. Citizens, Tax through documentation described below. In returns are required. For international the event a student applies to a FSA eligible custodial parent’s tax return or other program and receives federal student aid, the documentation clearly demonstrating annual Need-Based Tuition Discount will be income. Please note, in the event that tax accounted for in the recipient’s financial aid returns are unavailable, the following may be package and included in the need used: Social Security Documents; W2 Forms; determination for federal student aid or Bank Statements. programs. The Need-Based Tuition Discount is provided to qualified students for the duration of their program provided the TUITION DISCOUNT student maintains satisfactory academic CRITERIA progress. Student/Family Income is the main determining factor in awarding the amount of GENERAL APPLICATION the discount. The table below illustrates the metric of income amounts to discount 1) Completed Application form amounts. All students in like circumstances in 2) Financial need statement (a written the same programs and start dates will receive document of up to a page discussing the the same discount. student’s financial circumstances, and explaining their financial need for assistance).
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 55 NYFA Programs with Tuition of $40,000 Per Year or Above Income Amount of Discount $0 to $50,000 $15,000 to $10,000 $50,000 to $100,000 $10,000 to $5,000 $100,000 to $150,000 $5,000 to $0
NYFA Programs with Tuition Below $40,000 Per Year Income Amount of Discount $0 to $50,000 $10,000 to $8,000 $50,000 to $100,000 $8,000 to $5,000 $100,000 to $150,000 $5,000 to $0
Other factors/criteria including those listed below may affect the amount of the discount PERIOD OF DISCOUNT and are also accounted for in the award determination: Need-Based Tuition Discounts will be offered • Household size. at the New York Film Academy on a • Other funding sources (e.g.. Veteran’s permanent basis with no end date. funding). • Change in family financial circumstances (i.e. change in employment status; requiring demonstration from additional/supplemental documentation). • Past educational costs (i.e. student loan debts incurred before attending NYFA).
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 56 DRUG & ALCOHOL POLICY
NYFA students, staff and faculty are federal anti-drug laws affect a number of prohibited from the unlawful manufacture, areas in everyone’s lives. NYFA students distribution, possession, or use of illicit drugs violating this policy could lose eligibility for or alcohol. This prohibition applies while on financial aid or could be denied other federal NYFA campuses or when participating in any benefits such as Social Security, retirement, NYFA activity. Students or employees who welfare, health, disability, and veterans’ violate this policy are subject to disciplinary benefits. The Department of Housing and action up to and including expulsion or Urban Development, which provides funds termination from employment. to states and communities for public housing, now has the authority to evict residents and Students or employees may obtain members of their household who are information pertaining to the health risks involved in drug related crimes on or near and effects associated with alcohol and the public housing premises. Businesses narcotics or other dangerous or illegal drugs could lose federal contracts if the company from: does not promote a drug-free environment. http://www.allaboutcounseling.com/drugeffects.htm. Finally, a record of a felony or conviction in a drug-related crime may prevent a person from The Student Liaison Office will also assist in entering certain careers. referring students to recovery and/or treatment programs. Specific school policies In addition to local and State authorities, the prohibit: federal government has four agencies engaged in fighting illicit drugs. These • Use, possession, sale, distribution and/or agencies are: The Drug Enforcement Agency, production of alcoholic beverages, acting U.S. Customs Service, Federal Bureau of as an accessory, liaison, or facilitator for Investigation, and the U. S. Coast Guard. any of the above except at a time, location Important facts to be aware of include: and circumstance expressly permitted by • It is a crime to hold someone else’s drugs. NYFA and government regulations. • It is a crime to sell fake drugs. • Use, possession, sale, distribution, and/or • You can be arrested if you are in a house production of narcotics or other (or an institution) where people are using controlled substances, including related drugs, even though you are not. paraphernalia, or acting as an accessory, • You can be charged with possessing drugs liaison, or facilitator for any of the above. even if it is not found on you personally. • Public intoxication anywhere on NYFA’s • You are considered to possess, under legal premises or at functions sponsored by or terms of constructive possession,” drugs participated in by NYFA. found in your locker, purse, car, or house.
Note: Responsibility is not diminished for Drug abuse is the utilization of natural acts in violation of NYFA rules and and/or synthetic chemical substances for regulations or other laws that are committed non-medical reasons to affect the body and under the influence of alcohol or any illegal its processes, the mind and nervous system drugs or controlled substances. Recent and behavior. The abuse of drugs can affect a
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 57 person’s physical and emotional health and programs cost from $1,000 to $5,000. Who social life. Alcohol is the most abused drug in pays for these treatments? There may be the United States. Drugs can be highly programs that cover the costs. One way or addictive and injurious to the body. People another, the person and the taxpayer pays! It tend to lose their sense of responsibility and has been proven that an individual “hooked” coordination. Restlessness, irritability, cannot just stop, but requires professional anxiety, paranoia, depression, slowed care to kick the habit. There are classic movement, inattentiveness, loss of appetite, danger signals that could indicate the first sexual indifference, comas, convulsions, or sign of drug use. The primary ones that could even death can result from overuse or abuse call attention to one’s use of drugs are: of drugs. Not only does the person using the drug subject themselves to all sorts of health • Abrupt changes in mood or attitude risks, drug use can and, in many instances • Continuing slump at work or in school does, cause grief and discomfort to innocent • Continuing resistance to discipline at people. home or school • Inability to get along with family or friends A drug-induced brain, for example, affects • Regular temper flare-ups the wide range of skills needed for safe • Increased borrowing of money driving. Further, reflexes are slowed, making it hard for drivers to respond to sudden • Heightened secrecy/isolation unexpected events. Alcohol-related highway • Acquiring a whole new set of friends. deaths are the top killer of 15-24 year olds.
NYFA requires that any person observing any Dependency upon drugs can only lead to a student or staff directly engaging in life of misery and misfortune. The illegal use prohibited drug or alcohol use on campus or abuse of drugs has a very high impact on immediately notify the Director. Caution our society and the types of crimes must be observed, however, to avoid committed. To support a drug habit, people wrongful accusation of a person suspected of may resort to many things that can lead to a taking drugs as an improper accusation could life of misery or, in some instances, death. lead to embarrassment to both the individual Use link below for a complete list of the and the Institution. Once it has been Health Risks associated with alcohol determined by management that assistance to dependency. overcome the problem is indicated, the
individual and his/her family should be http://www.allaboutcounseling.com/drugeffects.htm counseled on the need for assistance. The dollar costs can range from $200 to Confidential student records will be $3,000 per week to support a habit. More maintained of any such counseling provided importantly, a drug habit impacts a person’s to an individual. NYFA offers limited family, lifestyle, education and career psychological counseling and advice. If the prospects as well as one’s physical well-being individual is in immediate danger of harming and self-respect. Treatment is available and himself/herself or others, local law may be expensive. For example, a typical live- authorities and immediate family members in program lasting four (4) weeks can cost will be contacted by NYFA staff. from $5,000 to $15,000. Outpatient
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 58 In certain cases, students and employees may criminal drug statute occurring in the be referred to counseling sources and/or workplace within five days after receiving the substance abuse help centers. If such a conviction. Disciplinary action for a violation referral is made, continued enrollment or of the student conduct policy regarding employment will be subject to successful alcohol or illicit drugs can range from oral completion of any prescribed counseling or and written warnings up to and including treatment programs. Students who believe suspension, expulsion depending on the that they have a substance abuse problem circumstances. and are seeking treatment may contact the Student Liaison Office for counseling The effectiveness of the campus Drug assistance. To request a referral for Prevention program is evaluated on a psychological counseling, contact the Student biennial basis to ensure: Liaison office, all such matters will be • The effectiveness of the program and to handled confidentially. New York Film modify where necessary. Academy also provides weekly drug and • That sanctions are consistently enforced. alcohol counseling on campus through a • A record of reviews will be kept. These qualified facilitator. These services are reviews will be maintained and available to offered to all students and employees and appropriate agencies as required and will may be mandatory in the event of a conduct include the following: code violation. Request for counseling services are initiated in the Student Liaison • the number of drug- and alcohol-related Officer or the Human Resources office. disciplinary actions; Additionally, health and safety classes offered • the number of drug- and alcohol-related to NYFA students review the risks and treatment referrals; consequences of substance abuse and provide • the number of drug- and alcohol-related tools for student success. These courses are incidents recorded by campus police or other incorporated into the student’s curriculum law enforcement officials; and include stress reduction, yoga and • the number of drug- and alcohol-related meditation techniques. incidents of vandalism; • the number of students or employees There are also drug or alcohol counseling, attending self-help or other counseling groups treatment and rehabilitation facilities related to alcohol or drug abuse; and student, available in the local area where individuals faculty, and employee attitudes and can seek advice and treatment. National perceptions about the drug and alcohol organizations also offer help, information problem on campus. and resources. The following link provides a As stated in the Code of Conduct, NYFA list of hotline and support services on a students, faculty and staff are prohibited from national level: the unlawful manufacture, distribution, possession or use of illicit drugs or alcohol. http://www.allaboutcounseling.com/crisis_hotlines.htm This prohibition applies while on NYFA Students and staff who violate the NYFA campuses or participating in any NYFA activity. standards of conduct subject themselves to Those who violate the NYFA Code of disciplinary action. Employees must notify Conduct will be subject to disciplinary action the director in writing of a conviction of a
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 59 up to and including expulsion and loss of or others, NYFA staff will contact local law eligibility for financial aid. authorities and immediate family members.
NYFA requires that any person observing any Students who believe that they have a student or staff directly engaging in prohibited substance abuse problem and are seeking drug or alcohol use on campus immediately treatment may contact the Student Liaison notify the Director, Dan Mackler. NYFA can Office for counseling assistance. To request a only offer limited psychological counseling and referral for psychological counseling and/or advice for drug and alcohol abuse. Additional treatment programs contact the Student support or treatment must be an expense Liaison office. borne by the student. If the individual is in immediate danger of harming himself/herself
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 60 PRODUCTION WORKSHOP RULES & REGULATIONS
VEHICLES SAFETY Students cannot drive their own cars onto the lot. Moving vehicles may not be used in any Parts of the Universal Backlot offers interiors, way during any production class or workshop. balconies, rooftops, etc. These are sets and some of the buildings are not as safe as they ENTERING UNIVERSAL appear. Stunts will not be permitted without prior approval from the Director. Stunts on STUDIOS rooftops will not be permitted. Students must meet outside The Smokehouse at 9:00 AM. The Smokehouse is located at: TRAMS
4420 W Lakeside Drive In some cases, Universal Studios’ trams will Burbank, CA 91505 pass through or close by the location assigned. Trams always have the right-of-way, and Shuttles leave periodically between 9:00 AM – students are never to converse or interact with 9:45 AM. A NYFA representative will be there passengers at any time. to coordinate the shuttles. If students would like to bring any non-NYFA actors to a production workshop, they must request CASTING permission from their Department Coordinator or Chair at least 24 hours before NYFA staff members are not to be used as the production workshop, and ensure that the actors. Students are responsible to make the request was confirmed and granted. Guests proper arrangements if bringing non-NYFA will not be allowed onto the Universal Backlot actors to the Universal Backlot. Failure to do if their full names (as listed on a passport, so will result in Universal Studios denying driver’s license or state-issued ID) are not access. provided by NYFA to Universal Security 24 hours prior to the production workshop. PROPS & WARDROBE
Once on Universal Studios premises, students Students are allowed to check out props and are not allowed to leave their designated area, wardrobe for their production workshop films. as assigned by the Studio. Exiting this Request forms are to be sent to Erick Saldana established perimeter is considered trespassing ([email protected]) at the Props and and may result in being banned from the Wardrobe Department at least one day prior Universal Backlot. to pickup.
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LUNCH
Students are to remain on the lot for the full day of production workshop, including lunchtime. Lunch trucks may be available. Students are responsible to bring cash to purchase food or a packed lunch from home.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 62 CAMPUS POLICIES
Under no circumstance should students DRESS CODE disrupt or enter neighboring offices and attempt to solicit work or internships. During Students must dress appropriately at all times. production workshops on the studio backlot, No offensive, revealing or immodest clothing students must remain within the designated will be tolerated. Shirt and shoes are required areas, and should not interfere or interact inside all NYFA buildings. with Universal or Warner Bros. tour trams, vehicles and other production personnel SMOKING outside of NYFA, including, but not limited to, industry professionals and celebrities. If In accordance with Burbank regulations, students are holding casting sessions on smoking is prohibited within 20 feet of campus or inviting non-NYFA actors to their entrances, exits and open windows of all shoots, they must acquire the appropriate NYFA buildings. Students desiring to smoke paperwork, and bear the responsibility of cigarettes may do so only in designated those guests. NYFA students represent the smoking areas. At 3300 Riverside, the smoking school on campus and at any NYFA functions, section is located outside on the sidewalk, to including production workshops, and will face the left of the main entrance on Warner Blvd. disciplinary action if they fail to adhere to the Students, staff & faculty are reminded to Code of Conduct. properly dispose of their cigarette butts after smoking. BIKES & SKATEBOARDS
NEIGHBORS Bikes and skateboards are not allowed in any NYFA buildings. Students should always respect their surrounding space, both in class and between classes, as the New York Film Academy is a PETS & ANIMALS professional and academic environment. Pets and animals are not allowed on NYFA Students should refrain from rehearsing in premises. Exceptions will be made for service the hallways and should be respectful of animals. neighboring offices and establishments.
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authorized to carry firearms and have the JEANNE CLERY authority as municipal police officers to use DISCLOSURE OF CAMPUS police powers of arrest. LAPD has primary SECURITY POLICY & jurisdiction over the NYFA campus located at 3800 Barham Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90068. CAMPUS CRIME ACT BPD has primary jurisdiction over NYFA This act requires NYFA to distribute its campus located at 3300 W. Riverside Drive, Campus Security Policy & Campus Crime Act Burbank, CA 91505 and 210 N. Pass Ave, to all current and potential NYFA students Burbank, CA 91505. Both departments and employees. NYFA collects statistical provide law enforcement services 24 hours a information from Campus Security day, 365 days a year. Authorities (CSA) and local municipal police departments including: Los Angeles Police NYFA also provides full-time, unarmed Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Campus Security Authorities (CSA) Officers Department, Burbank Police Department and to assist with security in buildings and around California Highway Patrol. Licensed the campus. counselors are exempt from reporting requirements. NYFA encourages counselors to REPORTING INTIMIDATION, inform students of voluntary, confidential crime-reporting procedures for inclusion in THREATS OR VIOLENT ACTS the Campus Security Report. Students, teachers and staff are obligated to Statistical information from NYFA CSA report any incident of prohibited conduct to Officers and from outside law enforcement the CEO, Director, Dean of the College, agencies, is integrated into a single document Dean of Students, Dean of Faculty or Human and, posted on the NYFA webpage, and with Resources. provided in a hard copies provided upon request. Every reported complaint regarding prohibited conduct or harassment will be investigated thoroughly, promptly, and in a LOS ANGELES & BURBANK confidential manner. If prohibited conduct is POLICE DEPARTMENTS confirmed, NYFA will discipline the offender, whether student, faculty member or staff The LAPD and BPD are vested with the member. Disciplinary action for a violation of authority and responsibility to enforce all this policy can range from oral and/or written applicable local, state and federal laws. warnings up to and including suspension, Officers have the authority and duty to expulsion or termination of employment, conduct criminal investigations, arrest depending on the circumstances. violators and suppress campus crime. Officers are duly sworn peace officers under the California Penal Code Section 830.2(b),
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 64 employees, the supervisor of the accused will THE INVESTIGATIVE also receive notification, as appropriate. No PROCESS details about the nature or extent of disciplinary or corrective actions will be In the event of a reported violation of this disclosed to the complaint(s) and/or policy: witness(es) unless there is compelling reason • All involved parties will be interviewed by to do so (i.e. personal safety.) Resulting NYFA management. disciplinary action can include the following: • Information obtained from interviews and verbal warning, temporary loss of specific investigations will be handled privileges, suspension or expulsion. confidentially on a need-to-know basis. However, if information is learned that In the event of an incident where NYFA requires legal action, disclosure of this management considers there to be a information may be required during the significant safety risk to any students, faculty process. or staff, NYFA reserves the right to • NYFA management or its designees will immediately suspend the involved parties review the results of the investigation and until the investigation provides reasonable determine the appropriate action. assurance that students, faculty & staff are not • Results of the investigation will be handled in any danger. confidentially on a need-to-know basis. NYFA will not refund students for lost NYFA investigator(s) will make a reasonable privileges or lost access to campuses, facilities, effort to ensure that the complaint(s) and/or classes, tests, performances, lessons, person(s) providing information are not appointments, or other activities and events exposed to any threats of violence, resulting from a disciplinary action, except as intimidation or personal risk. If any such required by state or federal policies. situations are determined to have occurred, NYFA will respond appropriately. NON-EMERGENCY Based on the investigation, the investigative PROCEDURES & REPORTING team must determine whether the allegation(s) CODE OF CONDUCT were founded, unfounded or inconclusive. This determination shall be documented in VIOLATIONS writing and made part of the investigative Students are expected to abide by the NYFA report. Institutional Code of Conduct. NYFA holds all students, faculty and staff responsible for DISCIPLINARY ACTION: carrying out and monitoring compliance. Any STUDENTS, FACULTY & ethical or legal violation, unfair treatment or improper conduct should be reported STAFF immediately to the Director or Dean of Students and/or Human Resources so that it When a violation is found, the accused will be may be investigated and the appropriate notified of the findings and the specific or action taken. It is the responsibility of all corrective remedial actions to be taken. For members of the NYFA community to take an
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 65 active role in policing compliance with these 2. Equipment and personal items that are ethical standards and safety, so that we can not in use or under close surveillance continue to maintain our creative should be stored in a secure location. environment and reputation in the Vehicles are not secure storage units for community. equipment and valuables. Any suspicious or unauthorized person identified on campus should be reported to an CRIME LOG instructor or CSA Office immediately. Students should never lend their Universal ID A daily incident report is made available to badge to anyone at any time. the Campus Director, reporting all activity related to campus crimes. A compiled list of all activity is maintained for all campus HARASSMENT locations by the Campus Operations Director and made available to CSA Officers [NT1] for NYFA is committed to providing an annual reporting requirements. Students are educational environment free of harassment. notified annually to review the campus crime Slurs, jokes, statements, emails, gestures, and security report maintained on the NYFA pictures or cartoons based on such factors as website. race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, family care, NON-RESIDENTIAL leave status or veteran status as well as BUILDINGS harassment based on gender, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions will All NYFA facilities are open to students and not be tolerated. staff during daytime and evening hours while classes are in session or while events are Sexual harassment is also not tolerated, which occurring. NYFA’s main facility is located on includes unwelcome conduct such as stalking, 3300 W. Riverside Dr. and is open 8:00 AM – requests for sexual favors, conversations 10:00 PM. During all other times, NYFA containing comments and unwelcomed sexual buildings are usually locked unless otherwise advances. authorized. Students, faculty and staff must work together to keep doors closed after hours. DEFINITION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT PROPERTY SECURITY AGAINST THEFT Sexual assault occurs when a sexual contact is nonconsensual. The words “NO” or “STOP” The following guidelines can help prevent indicate non-consent to any sexual contact. theft on campus and on location: Consensual sexual contact occurs when both parties have communicated a willingness to 1. Whether on campus, on the Universal participate in sexual act. Individuals may be Backlot, Warner Bros or on set, students incapable to consenting to a sexual act under must not leave NYFA equipment/property the following circumstances: and other valuable items unattended.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 66 • Incapacitated by the influence of drugs or • Interference with normal relationships with alcohol friends and relatives • Suffering from a mental or physical • Controlling behavior that includes disorder that makes them incapable of o Anger when the victim does not report offering consent acting under threats, their whereabouts to the perpetrator duress or force o Restriction of any activities that does not • Consent to sexual conduct is not implied include the perpetrator as a result of prior consent or marital or o Indications that these behaviors took relationship status. place in previous relationships • Perpetrator becomes involved with the victim quickly and faster than the normal DEFINITION OF pace of a relationship DATING VIOLENCE • Requires constant reassurance of the victim’s affections Domestic Violence is any violent act against • Perpetrator expects the victim to be their individuals listed below: ideal partner • Spouse or domestic partner • Victim is expected to change their physical • Individual with a shared dependent appearance or lifestyle to fit the • Individual that receives grant or monies expectations of the perpetrator under a domestic family violence act or is protected under a domestic family violence act. PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING SEXUAL SEXUAL ASSAULT, DATING, ASSAULT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & NYFA students should never feel at risk of STALKING being stalked or harmed in any way. Non- consensual sexual assaults, stalking, dating • Are crimes by state definition and domestic violence are significant issues • Have silent victims, such as family, friends, for all members of the NYFA community. It is neighbors and employers important to report incidents of rape, sexual • Benefit from intervention and may require assault and violence as soon as possible. intervention to end Students should call the Los Angeles Police • Involve some form of mental abuse Department (LAPD) if the sexual assault • Are prohibited by New York Film Academy incident occurs on NYFA campus or an Institutional Policy affiliated property. A police officer will take the initial crime report for any sexual assault reported to the LAPD or the Burbank Police PREVENTION & AWARENESS Department (BPD). A rape counselor, friend or family member may be present at the Indications that the perpetrator may be at survivor’s request. If the survivor has not risk of conducting a violent act against the received medical attention, the officer will victim: take the survivor to the closest Medical Center. • Extreme jealousy & possessiveness
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 67 While the survivors of sexual assaults are strongly encouraged to contact LAPD or BPD, TIMELY WARNINGS there may be occasions where students prefer to go to other campus staff. Service Staff A campus-wide “timely warning” will be issued Members provide a wide range of resources in the event of an emergency. Systems for and are available to assist students in working issuing warnings include postings, flyers, with local law enforcement, if the survivor emails and campus websites. NYFA will also chooses. Academic and Housing advisors are share warnings from local police departments available to assist survivors if housing and if the campus area is or may be affected. classes need to be changed. LAPD or BPD will Updates on crimes are provided on the NYFA conduct all investigations. Cases are website. Anyone with time-sensitive submitted to the District Attorney or City information regarding threats to campus Attorney and charges may be filed at their safety should report to NYFA CSA Officers. discretion.
SEX OFFENDER NOTICE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM The State of California requires all sex offenders to register with the police in the NYFA utilizes an emergency notification jurisdiction in which they reside. The state system that sends text messages to all students makes this information available to law in the event of an emergency. In the event of enforcement agencies. This information is an emergency, the Campus Director will: available to the NYFA campus community online in the Related Information section of • Consult with local law enforcement, fire the “Megan’s Law” webpage or at the local departments, public health or emergency LAPD office located at 1358 N. Wilcox management teams to investigate the Avenue or local BPD office located at 200 N. nature and impact of the emergency to 3rd Street. NYFA students. • Confer with campus leadership to Additionally, the Campus Sex Crimes coordinate all emergency efforts. Prevention Act provides for the tracking of • Alert designated campus emergency drill convicted sex offenders enrolled/employed at captains regarding the required steps based institutions of higher education. The State of on the nature of the emergency. California (Penal Code 290) requires sex • Activate the notification system for all offenders to register within five working days students and employees. of arrival and also “register with the campus or • Monitor for updates from law enforcement, any of its facilities” of higher education at fire departments, public health or which the offender is employed, has carried emergency management teams regarding on a vocation or is a student. the status of emergency. • Update students periodically regarding the status of the emergency.
Examples of emergencies requiring campus- wide student notification:
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 68 • Immediate threats to student safety procedures. They coordinate annual fire and • Outbreaks of highly contagious diseases earthquake drills to ensure the campus • Fire community is familiarized with the sound of • Weather emergencies the alarms and are aware of the proper • Earthquakes & other natural disasters evacuation procedures for each building.
The following items that are prohibited in EVACUATION PROCEDURES office spaces is a list of fire safety rules for all buildings: NYFA has assigned Captains for each building. The Captains are responsible for safely • Space heaters are not to be used under any escorting students and staff out of NYFA circumstance buildings in the event of a fire. Instructors are • Personal coffee makers are required to be also trained in proper evacuation procedures unplugged before staff leaves the premises and are responsible for safely evacuating their • Overloading power sockets outlets are is classrooms on Captains’ requests. Students strictly prohibited and staff are held at nearby locations until the • Power strips without surge protectors are situation is assessed and it is safe to return to not permitted the building. • Smoking is not permitted inside or around the entrance at any of the campus buildings Building Captains undergo annual training in fire and emergency evacuation response
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 69 CLASSROOM POLICIES
CELL PHONE POLICY ROOM BOOKINGS The use of cell phones/smart phones/iPads/tablets is expressly forbidden, Please remember the following when booking unless used for research or other class-related and using rooms for casting, rehearsals, or work, under the direct supervision of the shoots: instructor. 1. If you are conducting a casting session, Phones, etc, should be turned off and kept please make sure your sign is clearly printed out of sight during class. The first violation with the following information: will result in a warning. Second and • Name of project subsequent violations of cell phone policy will • Name of room being used result in immediate expulsion from class. The • Dates and times student will be marked absent for the day. The • Name of the director of the project absentee policy will be applied as outlined • Phone number someone can be reached at above. with any questions.
PERSONAL BELONGINGS This sign can only be hung on the door of the room being used. Please also provide this Students are not to leave any belongings information to the front desk. When your unattended in classrooms or on campus. project is done for the day, please make sure Neither NYFA nor Universal Studios can be to remove the sign. held responsible for personal belongings that are lost or stolen. 2. If you are conducting a casting session, you need to have one person in your group who CONSULTATIONS will act as a greeter for the entire casting. This person shall always be outside the room if the casting is in the Barham Building and NYFA encourages students to seek private on- on the floor's elevator lobby in the Riverside campus consultations with their instructors for Building. If you do not have a greeter, you additional help with the curriculum (subject to will not be checked into the room. teacher availability). This is a free service offered to all students during their course of 3. You may only remove furniture from any study. However, it is the student’s rooms with permission from a staff member responsibility to make his/her appointments at the front desk. with instructors. If students do not show up on time for scheduled appointments, they may 4. Please be respectful of your fellow students, lose the privilege of consulting with instructors. faculty, and New York Film Academy staff
members while using the rooms. Although you are using one room, students and faculty
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 70 may have a class in the room next door. DePalma, Miyamoto, Bushnell, Lasseter, 5. You are responsible for all parties involved Cassavetes (on the weekends) in the with the use of the room. Please make sure Riverside Building. all parties know the locations of smoking areas. Heavy fines may be incurred by the fire You will only be able to receive your deposit marshal if someone is smoking in a non- back if you have your Room Booking Check smoking area. Please make sure you and all In/Out form completely signed by a staff parties are respectful of our neighbors in any member and bring it in person back to the of our buildings. Bursar's Office.
6. Only the student who has placed the 8. You will need to get written permission deposit can book the room. Your ID will be from the Chair of your department if you checked both when the room is booked and wish to book any room that requires a $200 when you are checking in and out of the or $300 deposit. If you wish to book any of room. NO EXCEPTIONS. the dance studios (Including Astaire and Rogers) or theaters in the Barham building, 7. All room bookings require a refundable you will need to get written permission from deposit at the Bursar's office. The Bursar's your Chair and then Sara Blindauer. office will give you a receipt of this deposit. Room booking deposits are $100.00 with the Failure to follow these rules may result in following exceptions: your casting, rehearsal, or shoot being shut down and possibly losing your deposit. $200.00: Dance Studios #1, #3, #4, Astaire, Rogers, Welles, Lee, Theater #1, #2, and These signs must be typed, printed and hung Rooms #5-8 in the Barham Building only in approved areas. When work is $300.00: Toland, Zsigmond, and Eggelston completed for the day, all posted signs must in the Riverside Building. be removed. $300.00: Kaminski, Rooms #9, #10, #12 and #13 in the Barham Building. When conducting a casting session, students must have one person acting as a greeter for Bookings Not Allowed: Dance Studio #2, the entire casting. This greeter will remain Brando, Montalban, Eisenstein, Sorkin, outside the room, wrangling all individuals Goldman, and Ephron in the Barham for casting. Building Students must speak with Facilities Staff before removing furniture from any rooms. Bookings Not Allowed: Hitchcock, Ford,
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As per NYFA’s LA campus attendance policy, activities do not excuse students from leaving students are allowed only 15% absence per class early. Students who disregard this policy course, relative to the program length. Specific and leave class early without the knowledge or absence allotments and their effect on course permission of the instructor will be marked grades are detailed in individual course syllabi. absent.
TARDINESS ABSENCES FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAMS Arriving more than five minutes late to class is considered an instance of tardiness. A To foster a positive and constructive student’s third instance of tardiness is marked environment, all students enrolled in as an absence for that class. Instructors may Community Education programs must adhere also exercise their own class policy, in terms of to the following attendance policy to maintain allowing students into class if/when they are Satisfactory Academic Progress. late. In some cases, students may not be allowed to enter class late as it may disrupt Students enrolled in 1-Week programs are not other students’ exercises, presentations or tests. permitted ANY absences. Absence from 1 In such instances, students must wait until a class will result in a mandatory disciplinary class breaks to be allowed in. Students should meeting and may result in expulsion. refer to their course syllabi to view each Students in Holiday, 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-week instructor’s policy. certificate programs who reach the following absence thresholds in any course will be EXCUSED ABSENCES placed on probation status for the remainder of the program: An absence can only be excused with a signed doctor’s note verifying a medical emergency or 4-Week Programs: 4 unexcused class with other verifiable proof of a personal or absences in the first 2 weeks of the program. family emergency. All documentation must be 6-Week & Holiday Programs: 6 unexcused submitted to the Registrar’s Office absences in the first 3 weeks of the program. immediately. Approval is granted at the 8-Week Programs: 8 unexcused class discretion of the administration. absences in the first 4 weeks of the program. 12-Week Programs: 6 unexcused class absences in the first 6 weeks of the program. UNEXCUSED ABSENCES While on probation, students may not miss a Students are not permitted to leave class early, single class or school-related workshop. Any unless otherwise arranged with the instructor, absence during the probationary period may such as in the event of a medical emergency, lead to suspension or expulsion from the an appointment with a government agency or program. other urgent matter. Auditions, work commitments and other extracurricular
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 72 • Medical emergencies due to illness or ABSENCES FOR 1-YEAR, 2- accident YEAR CERTIFICATE, • Family emergencies that require a break UNDERGRADUATE & from full-time study • Financial issues which affect students’ GRADUATE PROGAMS ability to continue to matriculate
For classes meeting once a week over the Typically, NYFA students are granted a leave period of a full semester, students are allowed of absence of up to 180 days (6 months), no more than two unexcused absences in any before they are asked to withdraw and re-apply one course. Following the third unexcused to the program. absence, the student faces a mandatory Each student’s request is evaluated by the disciplinary meeting, resulting in probation. Department Chair, Registrar, Dean of
A fourth unexcused absence will lead to the Students and any other relevant department student being pulled from his/her or office. In addition to speaking with their presentations. Department Chair, international students must contact the International Student Office, A student who exceeds the 15% absence Veterans must contact the Veteran Affairs threshold in any class(es) in a degree or non- Office and Federal Student Aid recipients degree program will be scheduled for a should contact the Financial Aid office Disciplinary Review Hearing. At the hearing, PRIOR to submitting a Leave of Absence the appropriate course of action will be Petition, or risk defaulting on their status or determined for that student given his/her loans. explanation for absences and NYFA’s record of his/her overall attendance and International students on an F-1 student visa participation. A disciplinary hearing can result or J-1 educational exchange visa must consult in suspension or expulsion from the program. their International Student Advisor if they are considering a leave of absence for any reason. LEAVE OF ABSENCE An international student who needs time off due to a documented medical condition and Students who wish to take a leave of absence wishes to remain in the U.S. must provide a must consult their Department Chair and doctor’s letter so that the reduced course load submit a Leave of Absence Petition Form to can be approved and reported in the SEVIS the Registrar’s Office. To qualify for a leave of system. Any deviation from the original absence, you must be in good academic program of study (or length of study) requires standing and be making satisfactory progress students to consult the International Student towards the completion of your degree or Office. certificate program. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the Students are permitted a leave of absence if respective offices, and it is not sufficient to they meet one of the following reasons: only speak with an instructor or staff member prior to taking a leave of absence.
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Students at NYFA’s L.A. campus are required to meet both qualitative and quantitative academic standards. Satisfactory GRADE APPEAL Academic Progress (SAP) is a Federal Policy mandated by the U.S. Department of Students have the right to initiate a grade Education. This policy ensures that students appeal within 30 days after the course has are progressing through their program of been completed. Any grade appeals initiated study and identifies students who may be at after this period will not be accepted. risk of failing. To initiate a grade appeal, students must complete the Grade Appeal Form, which is GRADING POLICIES available at the Registrar’s Office and the Office of the Dean of Students and Dean of Students enrolled at the Los Angeles campus Academic Advising. In order to initiate a are graded on an A-F scale. Methods of grade appeal, the student must adhere to the evaluation and grading criteria are provided following process: in each course syllabus and grading rubrics for assignments or projects, which outline the Steps/Action Taken expectations for achievement. Percentage-to- STEP 1 Student meets with the instructor within grade ratios may vary. 30 days of course completion. Both parties fill out and sign the Grade Appeal Form GPAs are calculated using the following during the meeting. grading key: STEP 2 Student submits 1 copy of the completed A 4.0 Grade Appeal Form to the Registrar’s A- 3.7 Office & 1 copy to the Department Chair B+ 3.3 within 1 week of meeting with the B 3.0 instructor. B- 2.7
C+ 2.3 C 2.0 If Grade Appeal Has Not Been Resolved: C- 1.7 STEP 3 Department Chair reviews supporting D+ 1.3 documents and meets with instructor D 1.0 within 10 days of receiving the Grade F 0.0 Appeal Form. Further notations on students’ transcripts STEP 4 Department Chair meets with student include: within 2 weeks of receiving the Grade Appeal Form.
STEP 5 Within 1 week after the Department W Withdrawal from a course Chair’s meeting with the student, the IP Courses in progress Department Chair submits a
recommendation to the Dean of Students, All courses are taken for college credit, unless Registrar and any other relevant students have sought administrative administrators or offices. permission to audit courses. STEP 6 Within 2 weeks after receiving the Department Chair’s recommendation, the Dean of Students reviews and consults
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 74 with all relevant offices. The student and requirements during this semester will be instructor are notified of the final returned to satisfactory academic status. decision. SAP Probation Status SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC Students who have been placed in a warning status that fail to meet to meet the minimum PROGRESS (SAP) SAP requirements at the completion of their current semester are ineligible for Federal SAP Defined Student Aid funding. Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) is calculated by program for all active students. Students appealing the SAP probation SAP calculations for students in non- decision must complete an SAP appeal form matriculating certificate programs will be and meet with a designated staff person in calculated separately for each individual the Registrar’s Office to complete an program. Students in the 1-Year & 2-Year academic plan. The completed SAP appeal Certificate, AFA, BA or BFA programs with a form and academic plan must be returned to cumulative GPA (Grade Point Average) less the Financial Aid office for review. Approved than 2.0 or students that have completed less appeals will result in a reinstatement of the than 66.66% of their cumulative attempted student’s financial aid eligibility for one units in their current program of study have semester. Students must meet all not met the minimum requirements for requirements of the academic plan to Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for that continue to receive Federal Student Aid program. funds. Failure to meet the requirements set Students in MFA or MA programs with a forth in the student’s academic plan will cumulative GPA less than 3.0 or students result in termination from the program of that have completed less than 66.66% of study. their cumulative attempted units in their current program of study have not met the minimum requirements for Satisfactory NYFA LA ACADEMIC Academic Progress (SAP) for that program. PROGRESS
SAP Warning Status In addition to meeting Satisfactory Academic Students that have not met the minimum Progress, students in the 1-Year, 2-Year SAP requirements in the previous semester certificate programs and undergraduate and will be sent an SAP warning letter at the graduate programs must also meet NYFA LA beginning of the following semester. Students Academic Progress policies. Students who fail in SAP Warning Status will be contacted by to meet these academic standards may be the Registrar’s Office notifying them that subject to the following disciplinary statuses: they have been placed in academic “Monitored” or Attention” status. Students Monitored Status: in Warning status are offered additional Students who violate NYFA’s Academic or support services and are encouraged to utilize Attendance Policies are verbally advised and these services to improve their grades and enter Monitored Status, where they will be GPA. Students meeting the minimum assigned an Academic Support Plan.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 75 rate of less than 66.66 percent. Graduate Attention Status: students on Financial Aid will not receive Students on Monitored Status who fail to federal student aid funding if they fail to meet make satisfactory academic progress will be all Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) placed on Attention Status. requirements in their second consecutive semester with a cumulative GPA below 3.0 or a completion rate of less than 66.66 percent. Academic Probation:
Students on Attention Status who fail a During the probationary period, a student course despite receiving academic support may who receives additional failing grades in be placed on Academic Probation for the subsequent or 3rd consecutive semester of non- remainder of the semester, as well as the SAP is required to attend a Disciplinary subsequent semester. Students receiving a Review Hearing. Failure to successfully move failing grade in a Community Education out of Probation Status may result in program will be placed on Academic suspension, expulsion or recommended Probation for the remainder of their program. withdrawal from the program. Academic Probation is a contractual agreement between the Registrar's Office and the student which mandates that a student Dismissal: cannot acquire more than three absences or Students who are suspended, expelled or fail to complete one assignment or production withdraw from their program may petition for workshop during the probationary period. readmission after a full semester, and if In order to remain enrolled in their program, administrative approval has been granted. students on Academic Probation must reach Each petition is evaluated on a case-by-case the SAP minimum. In certain cases, students basis, and students are re-admitted if it is may be given the opportunity to complete determined that they can meet the required additional coursework in order to achieve a programmatic SAP policies upon their return passing grade and to earn credit for the course. and if they can complete their program in less All additional coursework must meet all than the 150 % of the required time. requirements set forth by the instructor, including established deadlines. If a student is readmitted, he/she will be automatically placed on Contractual If a student does not make up a failing course Probation until the first academic semester of grade, he/she must retake the course at a later readmission is completed. time. For this make-up course, the student will be charged a per-credit value. Students that re-enter after non-SAP All undergraduate and graduate students must termination will no longer be eligible for successfully complete their Academic Federal student aid funding. Federal student Probation period to move on to their third aid recipients may appeal this status by semester. Undergraduate students on completing a petition for SAP appeal form in Financial Aid will not receive federal student the Registrar’s office. All SAP appeals will be aid funding if they fail to meet all Satisfactory reviewed by the SAP committee providing the Academic Progress (SAP) requirements in students with a final determination of SAP their second consecutive semester with a appeal status before the completion of the cumulative GPA below 2.0 or a completion
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 76 semester. Accepted appeals will result in a reinstatement of Federal student aid eligibility. FAILED COURSES Students are required to repeat a full semester STRUCTURED REMEDIATION if they receive 3 F’s in one semester or 3 F’s PROGRAM (SRP) cumulatively. Students repeating a full semester are placed on academic probation The Structured Remediation Program and must fulfill the terms of their probation provides an opportunity for students to make to continue in their program. Students are up a single failing grade. Students may only required to pay per-credit for make-up work complete SRP once in their academic career at and will have the opportunity to enroll in NYFA and are only eligible if they have one F additional courses they have not yet on their record, but this failing grade does not completed, to maintain full-time status. automatically qualify students for SRP. THESIS & FINAL PROJECTS The Dean of Academic Advising contacts the student and discusses a possible academic plan Students who have 25 % or more absences in with the instructor of record. The instructor any required course in their core discipline, will determine whether students are eligible or will not be allowed to complete final project not for Structured Remediation. Not all or Thesis requirements or perform or courses can accommodate this process. participate in Showcases, Screenings, Pitch Fests and Exhibitions for that semester. If a student fails to fulfill the SRP obligations as outlined in his/her program, he/she must repay for and retake the course in its entirety. ADD/DROP, CHANGE & Students who fail to fulfill the conditions of WITHDRAWAL their SRP program will automatically be put on SAP Warning status. International Typically, only Liberal Arts & Science courses students who do not fulfill the requirements can be added or dropped. Students have two may not be eligible for OPT. weeks after the start of a semester to petition to add, drop or change the grading option TESTING OUT and/or section of a course. The deadline is 5:00 pm Friday, at the end of Week 2. BFA students who complete the Math Students must get approval from the Chair of Placement Test with a minimum score of 118 the Liberal Arts & Sciences Department, have the opportunity to complete a second before adding or dropping a course. test in order to test out of the College Add/Drop forms are available at the Mathematics requirement. Students must Registrar’s Office. score a minimum of 115 on the second test in order to be waived out of FOUN151, College International students and students on the GI Bill and Financial Aid must consult with Mathematics. appropriate departments to ensure full-time enrollment before dropping a course.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 77 Add: Students must contact the Registrar’s process does not guarantee rescinding the “W” Office and/or Chair of the Liberal Arts & from the transcript. Sciences department to ensure that the intended course fits in with their schedule. Students Paying Flat-Fee Tuition: Students on the flat-fee tuition system are Drop: The decision to drop a course must be those who complete their course of study finalized by all departments by the end of the without transferring in any credits. Those second week of classes. Petition to drop students are not eligible for a refund for courses after Week 2 will only be courses dropped at any point in the academic accommodated with valid documentation of year, as all courses are required within the emergencies, such as illness, injury or death in prescribed curricula. the family. Students must repeat the dropped course in a Change: Students may only switch sections subsequent semester when it is offered, by re- or courses within the same 2-week Add/Drop registering at no additional cost. period, if the class is not already full. However, students must pay for courses that they repeat due to F grades on a per-credit Withdrawal: Non-attendance does not basis. The determination of the per-credit automatically withdraw a student from a costs will be based on their flat-fee tuition and course. To officially withdraw from a course will be provided to the student. after the Add/Drop period, the student must contact the Registrar’s Office and Department Students Paying Per-Credit Tuition: Chair. Students who transfer credits into their
program pay per-credit, based on the number Withdrawing from a course constitutes an of credits they complete each semester. These attempt at completing the course past the students are eligible for a per-credit refund for Add/Drop Period. The course remains listed any courses dropped during the Add/Drop on the transcript and the student receives a Period. Withdrawing from any courses after “W” instead of a grade. All units in “W” the two-week Add-Drop Period does not status will be considered attempted but not constitute a refund. completed in the student’s calculation of on- time completion. ADD, DROP, CHANGE DATES In a full-semester course, students may not withdraw past 12 weeks into the course The following dates represent the without incurring an academic penalty. In an Add/Drop/Change deadlines for 2015. 8-week course, students may not withdraw Add/Drop forms are available at the past 6 weeks into the course without incurring Registrar’s Office. an academic penalty. The student may petition to have the “W” removed from the Spring 2015 transcript upon successful completion of the Deadline: 2/13/2015 – 5:00 pm course. S/he may do so by submitting a petition in writing to the Dean’s Office. This Summer 2015
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 78 Deadline: 6/12/2015 – 5:00 pm an application and be admitted into the new program.
Fall 2015 VACATION BREAK Deadline: 10/16/2015 – 5:00 pm
Under rare, special circumstances, such as a Students may request to take a semester off medical emergency, students may be once they have successfully completed two permitted to drop courses by the second consecutive semesters. The request must be posted deadline (mid-semester) and will submitted to the following administrators no receive a “W” on their transcript. later than 7 weeks prior to the semester they The following deadlines represent the final wish to take off: date, where students may still receive a “W” 1. Department Chair on their transcript: 2. Registrar 3. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
(for BFA transfer students.) Spring 2015 4. International Student Advisor, Financial Deadline: 3/27/2015 – 5:00 pm Aid Director or Director of Veteran Affairs (when applicable.) Summer 2015 5. Dean of Students (if recommended by the Deadline: 7/24/2015 – 5:00 pm Registrar or any other parties.)
Fall 2015 Please note that your request may be denied if you are not in good academic standing or Deadline: 11/20/2015 – 5:00 pm have other SAP requirements to fulfill. Any courses dropped after the second Requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. deadline will be considered attempted and failed. GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS PROGRAM CHANGE In addition to following NYFA’s Academic NYFA defines a program change as a change Policies, students must complete all required of discipline, such as from Filmmaking to projects and/or thesis requirements and Photography. Students switching programs adhere to all institutional policies, including within the same campus are only permitted to the Attendance Policy and Code of Conduct. do so twice. A student who wishes to change Students must complete all requirements for disciplines must consult the Registrar and the graduation in a period no longer than 150% Department Chairs of both disciplines, prior of the published length of the educational to withdrawing from their program. In order program, as defined by percentage of credit to switch programs, students must initiate the units attempted vs. completed. change no later than mid-semester (prior to the new program start date) and must submit
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Per NASAD requirements, the New York Film work/preparation outside of class students Academy awards credit according to the need to complete their study. following policy: The Provost, Dean of the College and A semester unit consists of 3 hours of work Department Chairs assign the appropriate each week for a period of 15-16 weeks. In credits for each course and program, based on lecture courses requiring outside preparation, the credit/hour formula designated above. In 1 semester unit represents 1 hour of addition, the Associate Dean for Institutional instruction and at least 2 hours of work Accreditation, Associate Dean for Academic outside of class, per week. In studio/laboratory Affairs and Registrar review NASAD and courses, 1 semester unit represents 1.5 to 2 BPPE guidelines routinely to ensure that the hours of instruction and at least 1 – 1.5 hours New York Film Academy is complying with of studio/laboratory preparation, per week. regulations.
Under the supervision of the Dean of the These credit/hour designations are reviewed College, Provost and School Directors, the with the Scheduling Department, where the Department Chairs plan program curricula above officers ensure that the appropriate with faculty involvement, and determine the semester and course length, number of class appropriate number of instructional hours for sessions and duration of class sessions are every course/program and the amount of consistent in the course catalog and students’ academic schedules.
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To maintain the integrity of its programs, credit rest with the Office of the Dean of the NYFA only accepts transfer credits in the College. If credit is awarded, the length and/or student’s major area or discipline from its requirements of the program may be adjusted. branch campuses, and transfer credits for Only official transcripts, official score reports Liberal Arts & Science courses towards their and official evaluations of foreign units shall AFA or BFA degrees. NYFA does not accept be used for this review. more than 30 units of Liberal Arts & Science from other schools. From NYFA’s branch Transfer students must meet the same overall campuses, the LA campus will accept no more academic standards and requirements as than 50 % of the total credits required to students who enter the BFA as freshmen. The complete a degree or program. studio arts curriculum at NYFA is highly specialized and integrated with very few Students desiring credit for previous academic electives and it is the general policy of New work or training must submit a written request York Film Academy not to accept transfer for such credit to the Associate Dean for units in studio arts from other academic post- Academic Affairs, along with transcripts secondary institutions. Grades from transfer and/or official score reports. No requests for courses are not used to calculate the NYFA transfer credits can be evaluated until students grade-point average; only the course units have submitted evidence of completed transfer. NYFA may place further restrictions coursework. All transfer credit requests must on the acceptance of transfer units in order to be made within the Add/Drop period, and maintain the integrity of the BFA degree students are encouraged to contact the program. For this reason, courses, practica or Registrar’s office or the Associate Dean for internships, taken at other institutions may not Academic Affairs prior to the first day of class, transfer. Acceptance of units in transfer does in order to ensure that all requisite material is not guarantee that those units will be received and evaluated in a timely manner. applicable to the BFA degree. Students who fail to submit a transfer credit request and provide all required documents by the deadline will not have their credits TRANSFER CREDIT AFTER transferred and must attend all mandatory MATRICULATION courses in their program. Students are advised to check the Add/Drop Change dates listed Once a student has matriculated at NYFA, under Academic Policies. units from other institutions will only be awarded if special permission is granted prior To be accepted for transfer, courses must have to registration. The Dean must approve such been taken at an accredited institution, taken permission and it will not be granted for any for a letter grade of a C or higher (where the C student who has lower than a 2.5 cumulative grade has the numerical equivalent of at least average at NYFA, who proposes to take a 2.0 on a 4.0 point scale); be a college-level course for which he/she has previously course and must be the substantial equivalent received a grade of lower than B- at NYFA, for of a course offered at the New York Film any student who has 76 earned units, nor for Academy. Decisions regarding the awarding of any student who has 48 earned units and
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 81 proposes to take courses at a two-year required to repeat some or all of your institution. The policies governing coursework at that institution. For this reason acceptability of units are the same as stated you should make certain that your attendance above. at NYFA will meet your educational goals. This may include contacting an institution to which you may seek to transfer after attending NYFA TRANSFER OF to determine if your credits or degree, diploma INTERNATIONAL CREDIT or certificate will transfer.
Credit from institutions outside the country must be equated to those at accredited US OTHER COURSE WORK colleges and universities. It is the responsibility of the student to furnish NYFA with an Approved internships or NYFA Summer original certified copy of an evaluation of Abroad programs shall be listed on the NYFA his/her international units performed by transcript as “transfer units.” World Educational Services or an equivalent service approved by the Office of the Registrar. TUITION CREDIT
CREDIT FOR NON- Students who receive transfer credit for TRADITIONAL EXPERIENCE previous academic work or training may be entitled to a reduction in tuition. This The Dean may authorize non-traditional reduction in tuition would be on a pro-rated, coursework for transfer upon review of per credit unit basis, depending on the number relevant transcripts and other supportive and type of units transferred, and the materials. Such units, if granted, are only to be course(s)/semester(s) to which they apply. used for program requirements. No credit is granted for work experience. ARTICULATION WITH NOTICE CONCERNING OTHER SCHOOLS TRANSFERABILITY OF The New York Film Academy has signed CREDITS & CREDENTIALS AT articulation agreements with the purpose of OUR INSTITUTION guaranteeing transfer credits from the articulating school for students who fulfill all The transferability of credits you earn at NYFA admissions requirements and are accepted to is at the complete discretion of an institution the New York Film Academy’s Bachelor of to which you may seek to transfer. Acceptance Fine Arts programs. of the degree or certificate you earn is also at the complete discretion of the institution to NYFA will only enter into an agreement after which you may seek to transfer. If the credits, verifying the articulating school’s accreditation, degree or certificate that you earn at this conducting discussions between academic institution are not accepted at the institution representatives of the two institutions to to which you seek to transfer, you may be identify common missions, goals and
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 82 standards, and after a detailed review of the made readily available to enrolled and courses and curricula have been completed prospective students They are also described and reviewed for equivalencies. At the end of on the school website. Currently, an this process, the Associate Dean of Academic articulation agreement is in effect between Affairs generates a rubric for credit transfer. San Diego City College and NYFA, Los Angeles. In accordance with NASAD standards, all articulation agreements are published and
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may suspend any student immediately, when SIMULTANEOUS the school officer deems such an action PROBATIONS appropriate.
Students may be placed on Attendance Any suspended student has the right to an Probation and Academic Probation Appeals Process and may appeal his/her simultaneously and remain in their program. suspension by submitting a formal letter to the Dean of Students. Pending administrative PROCEDURAL HOLD approval, students may continue on with their current program or re-enroll at a new start Students suspected of violating NYFA date, so as not to disrupt their education and institutional or campus-wide policies will face training. Students re-enrolling must pay full a fair and thorough investigation and tuition for that semester. disciplinary hearing to determine if their conduct warrants disciplinary action. EXPULSION
If, in the process of investigating possible Students expelled from any New York Film violations involving the safety and welfare of Academy program cannot continue others, students, faculty or staff are deemed at instruction with their current course. A risk, then the alleged offender may be student expelled from the New York Film removed from class during the investigation, Academy may take advantage of the New York at which time he/she will be placed on Film Academy’s Student Tuition Refund Procedural Hold, for a maximum of 10 Policy. instructional days. During this period, students are responsible for consulting with the Office of the Dean of Students in order to APPEALS PROCESS maintain their academic standing. Once the investigation is complete, the Disciplinary Students have the right to appeal a Panel will inform the student of the findings disciplinary action and may submit a formal and subsequent decision. letter to the Dean of Students and provide evidence in support of their case. Within 30 days after filing a formal appeal, students are SUSPENSION requested to appear before the Disciplinary Board, where the student’s appeal will be Following a thorough investigation, students reviewed. The Appeals Process does not found to have violated NYFA institutional or guarantee a change in the disciplinary action campus-wide policies may be suspended. issued and the Disciplinary Board will review Students on suspension may be prohibited each case and appeal thoroughly prior to from entering the NYFA campus or attending reaching a final verdict. All decisions of the any NYFA functions. In addition to the Disciplinary Board are binding and final. Disciplinary Panel, the CEO, CAO and COO
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM ACADEMIC HONESTY & CREATIVE INTEGRITY NYFA believes in the free pursuit of intellectual and artistic inquiry, as well as the NYFA expects all students to be responsible exchange of ideas between instructors and individuals who insist on high standards of students. Controversial subjects may be honesty, personal conduct and creative explored without fear of censure, retribution or integrity. All incidences of plagiarism, cheating reprisal, so long as the work occurs within the and deliberate hindrance of other students’ scope of the NYFA education and is consistent work are considered serious offenses and will with its stated Academic Freedom Policy, be subject to a Disciplinary Review Hearing at which will be made available to any person which penalties will be imposed. upon request. Students, faculty and staff are free to express themselves and explore their Academic honesty extends to all school artistic horizons as they see fit, provided that projects, productions and exercises, both on they remain in compliance with state and and off the NYFA campus. Students must federal law, and so long as they can successfully maintain a high standard of honesty in demonstrate that the work declarations and descriptions of these projects discussed/performed/completed was created to faculty, administration and staff, as well as with artistic intent. Pornographic depictions other agencies and vendors. Deliberate created with commercial intent or used for dishonesty and misconduct are considered commercial purposes will not be tolerated, and serious offenses and will be subject to a the creators of such work will be subject to Disciplinary Review Hearing at which penalties expulsion/dismissal. will be imposed.
Instructors are free to discuss controversial subjects in class and screen controversial works FREEDOM OF SPEECH without fear of reprisal, so long as the work serves the overall goal of NYFA curriculum and NYFA is an open, artistic environment. While does not violate the NYFA Code of Conduct we embrace the artist’s right to free speech and or any institutional or campus-wide policies. expression, any form of discrimination Work that contains nudity, graphic sexual (whether based on age, race, religion, gender or depictions, extreme violence and/or excessive sexual preference, etc.) will not be tolerated. profanity may be precluded from a public Libel and slander are strictly prohibited. Any screening at the discretion of the student found guilty of defamation against administration. Films precluded from public NYFA students or staff is subject to disciplinary presentation will be screened in private for an action. Any NYFA student, faculty or staff appropriate, invited audience. found guilty of defamation against any other student, faculty or staff is subject to disciplinary action, including probation, expulsion or
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COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Intellectual property refers to exclusive POLICY copyright, trademarks, patents and other legally recognized rights to intangible assets, including Copyright infringement is the act of exercising, literary, cinematic and artistic works. without permission or legal authority, one or more of the exclusive rights granted to the Students must adhere to industry standards copyright owner under section 106 of the and institutional policies regarding copyright Copyright Act (Title 17 of the United States laws, with respect to material they wish to Code). These rights include the right to produce. For NYFA coursework, students may reproduce or distribute a copyrighted work. be advised not to use, or may be prohibited from using, characters, music, and other source In the file-sharing context, downloading or material they do not have rights to. Students uploading parts or whole copyrighted works working on adaptations are encouraged to use without authority constitutes an infringement. material that is in the public domain. Students Students are reminded that copyright may direct any questions they have regarding infringement is a criminal offense and appropriate use of intellectual property to convictions may include jail time and/or severe faculty or administration. fines, with a maximum penalty of $150,000 per instance in the United States.
Students are forbidden from illegally downloading, uploading or sharing pirated material on campus, including, but not limited to, software, torrents, films and television shows. Failure to comply with the institution’s policy will result in disciplinary action.
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NYFA operates within the guidelines of federal and state law with regard to the maintenance, organization and protection of DIVERSITY & NON- student files. NYFA is aware of, and in DISCRIMINATION POLICY compliance with, guidelines established by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act To foster a diverse, safe and productive (FERPA), concerning protection of learning and work environment, every student, confidentiality and privacy of student records. instructor and staff is entitled to be treated in A copy of FERPA guidelines is available for a fair and appropriate manner irrespective of: review in the Registrar’s Office. • Race • Ethnicity • Nationality RETENTION & PERSISTENCE • Disability • Gender All records for each NYFA student are kept in Age separate academic and financial files in locked • fireproof cabinets in the Registrar’s Office and • Sexual orientation under 24-hour security surveillance. The office • Religion remains locked at all times. The Registrar • Political beliefs must accompany anyone entering the This list is intended to be illustrative and is Registrar’s Office. All academic and financial not exhaustive. Striving for a bias-free records for each student (current, graduate or environment is central to our mission. All withdrawn) will be stored for a minimum of 5 students, staff and faculty are obliged to years after the date of their first class at NYFA. adhere to the Diversity Policy. Academic transcripts are permanently maintained. Should a complaint arise concerning a particular student, the files REPORTING pertaining to that student will be maintained DISCRIMINATION for the life of the corporation. We are committed to responding quickly and STUDENT & INSTRUCTOR constructively to bias and discrimination complaints, and ensuring that all individuals NON-FRATERNIZATION feel comfortable coming forward with a POLICY complaint.
Intimate relationships/dating between Any student, faculty or staff member who has students and instructors or staff of NYFA is witnessed or experienced discrimination, strictly prohibited. harassment or defamatory language on campus should immediately report the incident in one of the following ways:
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 87 • File a complaint form available at the Any act of sexual assault or any other physical Dean’s Office. violence will immediately be reported to the • Send an email to [email protected] proper legal authorities. Any student, faculty, • Discuss the problem with a faculty member, staff or administrator who falls victim to Department Chair, or the Dean of the sexual harassment or assault will be College, Dean of Faculty or Dean of immediately taken to the nearest hospital for Students. medical treatment and emotional counseling. Information on crisis counseling is available NYFA will take the appropriate action to in the Registrar’s Office and the Student protect faculty, staff and students from Affairs Liaison Office. discrimination, investigate any allegations or complaints and interview all parties involved to find effective resolutions. STUDENT RIGHTS & GRIEVANCES Depending on the findings of the investigation and at the discretion of the All students have the right to due process in school, any student, faculty or staff member any action brought against them by NYFA who violates the Policy may be suspended or that may adversely affect their academic status dismissed. with the institution. Students have the right to petition for special consideration with In some cases, students, faculty or staff regard to the academic and administrative members who wish to continue their study or policies and procedures when circumstances employment may be required to attend a beyond their control prevent them from Diversity/Sensitivity Training course at their adhering to said policies and procedures. own expense. STUDENT GRIEVANCES HARASSMENT & SEXUAL PROCEDURES ASSAULT NYFA will address all appropriate student Threatening remarks from students (verbal grievances promptly. A grievance is considered slander, sexual harassment, threats of violence, appropriate if a student expresses feelings of etc.) and/or any act of physical violence from dissatisfaction concerning any application or a student toward any instructor, staff member, interpretation of the NYFA administration or student or other person in general will not be management-related policy. Procedures are as tolerated. Any student who violates these follows: terms is subject to disciplinary action and/or • Complaints or problems with NYFA should criminal prosecution. Threatening remarks or be directed to Jean Sherlock, Dan Mackler any act of physical violence from faculty, staff or Sonny Calderon. or administrative employee towards any other • All student complaints will be investigated instructor, staff member, administrator, thoroughly, including interviewing all student or other person in general will not be parties and reviewing all documents that tolerated. Any employee who violates these relate to or may potentially relate to the terms is subject to immediate termination. complaint.
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 88 • If the complaint is determined to be valid, kept in Student Records for a minimum of all necessary steps will be taken to provide five years, following the date that the the appropriate remedy for the complaint. complaint was first received. • Following a valid complaint, NYFA will • A student or any member of the public may implement reasonable policies or file a complaint about this institution with procedures to avoid similar complaints in the Bureau for Private Postsecondary the future. Education by calling (888) 370-7589 or by • If the complaint is submitted in writing, the completing a complaint form, which can be Grievance and Appeals Committee will obtained on the Bureau’s internet web site provide the student with a written response. (www.bppe.ca.gov.) • A written summary of all complaints will be
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CAMPUS HOURS & ADDRESS
Front Desk 9 am - 9 pm, Monday - Saturday Satellite Locations: Administrative 9 am - 6 pm, Monday - Friday Offices “Barham/Glass Building” Library 9 am - 10 pm, Monday - Friday 3800 Barham Blvd. 12 pm - 5 pm, Saturday Los Angeles, CA 90068 Telephone: 323-850-0830 Equipment (Barham): 818-333-3595
Main Campus & Mailing Address: “Post-Production Building” 210 Pass Ave. “Riverside Building” Burbank, CA 91505 Telephone: 818-333-3583 3300 W. Riverside Dr. Burbank, CA 91505 Telephone: 818-333-3558 “Equipment” Fax: 818-333-3557 210 W. Olive Ave. Burbank, CA 91506 Telephone: 818-306-5410 ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Institutional Website: www.nyfa.edu LA Course Catalog: http://catalogs.nyfa.edu LA Student Handbook: http://net.nyfa.edu/handbooks/2015-student-handbook Campus Maps: http://hub.nyfa.edu/sites/default/files/handbooks/nyfa_la_campus_maps.pdf Digital Room Boards: board.nyfa.edu/la.html Academic Calendar: http://www.nyfa.edu/admissions/school-calendar FAQ’s http://www.nyfa.edu/about/faq.php
STUDENT SERVICES
Academic Support: http://www.nyfa.edu/bfa/academic-support.php Rooms & Schedules: http://board.nyfa.edu Housing Information: http://www.nyfa.edu/admissions/housing.php BFA Resources: www.nyfa.edu/bfa/resources.php Financial Aid: http://www.nyfa.edu/admissions/financial_aid.php International Students: http://www.nyfa.edu/admissions/international_student.php Veteran Affairs: http://www.nyfa.edu/veterans Transfer Students: http://www.nyfa.edu/admissions/transfer-students.php
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Production Handbook: http://www.nyfa.edu/students/resources Collaborations Board: http://laprojects.nyfa.edu Job Opportunities Board: net.nyfa.edu/jobs NYFA Events: net.nyfa.edu/events/industry Headshots Database: http://headshots.nyfa.edu Username: filmmaker Password: nyfacasting123
ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES
Founder President/Provost Jerry Sherlock Michael Young, MFA [email protected] Chief Executive Officer Jean Sherlock Dean of the College 1st Floor, Riverside Sonny Calderon, MFA [email protected] 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] Senior Director (N.Y. Campus) David Klein, MFA Dean of Faculty [email protected] Louis Fantasia, MFA
1st Floor, Riverside Director (L.A. Campus) [email protected] Dan Mackler, MFA 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] Dean of Students Eric Conner, MFA st Director of Operations 1 Floor, Riverside Brad Ben-Hain, BFA [email protected] 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] Dean of Academic Advising Mike Civille, Ph.D, American Studies Director of High School Programs 2nd Floor, Riverside Alejandra Salinas [email protected] 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected]
ACADEMIC RESOURCES
Registrar Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Vince Voskanian (BFA Transfer Credits) 1st Floor, Riverside Prarthana Mohan [email protected] 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected]
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 91 Associate Dean for Institutional Academic Support Accreditation Brenda Varda nd Evelyn Chandra 2 Floor (Library), Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected] Director of English Language Services Head Librarian, Learning Resources Karen Ogle nd Director 2 Floor (Library), Riverside Josh Moorman [email protected] 2nd Floor, Riverside [email protected]
STUDENT RESOURCES
Director of Admissions Industry Outreach & Professional Kevin Curtin Development st 1 Floor, Riverside Adam Finer [email protected] 4th Floor, Riverside [email protected] Director of Financial Aid Lissa Wayne Housing Coordinator st 1 Floor, Riverside Brennan Dillon [email protected] 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] Bursar’s Office (Tuition, Room Deposits, Student IDs) Transportation Sarah Wu Sophia Monti 1st Floor, Riverside Lobby, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
International Student Advisor Events Coordinator Christine Daniels Rob Cosnahan 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Veteran Affairs Athletic Director John Powers Eric Brown 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Student Affairs Liaison Props & Wardrobe Kathia Rabelo Erick Saldana 4th Floor, Riverside 5th Floor, Barham/Glass [email protected] [email protected]
Chair of Diversity Development Room Bookings Cheryl Bedford Sara Blindauer rd 3 Floor, Riverside 5th Floor, Barham/Glass [email protected] [email protected]
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 92 Production Services IT Manager (NYFA Emails) Luis Valencia Mitch Spector 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Post Production Manager Chinese Student Liaisons Laura Paulsen Kara Wang Post Annex (210 Pass Ave) 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Post Production Evening Manager Erni Chen st Nancy Lee 1 Floor, Riverside Post Annex (210 Pass Ave) [email protected] [email protected]
Post Production Deputy Manager John Briscoe Post Annex (210 Pass Ave) [email protected]
FILMMAKING DEPARTMENT
Chair Associate Chair Arthur Helterbran Rick Curnutt 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Head of Feature Thesis Productions Associate Chair Lydia Cedrone Ed Timpe 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Associate Chair Coordinator David Newman Prarthana Joshi st 1 Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
Coordinator Alexander Perry 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected]
ACTING FOR FILM DEPARTMENT
Chair Associate Chair Lynda Goodfriend Miguel Cruz 5th Floor, Barham/Glass 5th Floor, Barham/Glass [email protected] [email protected]
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 93 Associate Chair for Acting for Film Associate Chair for Departmental Studies Programming Christopher Cass Anne Moore 5th Floor, Barham/Glass 5th Floor, Barham/Glass [email protected] [email protected]
Associate Chair for Voice, Speech & Coordinator Movement Studies Lilian Teplan th Justin Lujan 5 Floor, Barham/Glass 5th Floor, Barham/Glass [email protected] [email protected]
Associate Chair for Performance Studies Denis McCourt 5th Floor, Barham/Glass [email protected]
SCREENWRITING DEPARTMENT
Chair Coordinator Nunzio DeFilippis Jennifer Sterner 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
PRODUCING DEPARTMENT
Chair Coordinator Tony Schwartz Daphne Teng 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
Chair Coordinator Louis Fantasia Lexie Helgerson 1st Floor, Riverside 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
CINEMATOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
Chair Coordinator Michael Pessah Anthony Cook [email protected] 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected] Associate Chair Mike Williamson 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected]
2015 New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Student Handbook 94 PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
Chair Michele Kirk nd 2 Floor, Riverside [email protected]
DOCUMENTARY DEPARTMENT
Chair Caron Allen 1st Floor, Riverside [email protected]
GAME DESIGN DEPARTMENT
Chair Coordinator Chris Swain Chase McKesson 4th Floor, Riverside 4th Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
3-D ANIMATION DEPARTMENT
Chair Coordinator Mark Sawicki Chase McKesson 4th Floor, Riverside 4th Floor, Riverside [email protected] [email protected]
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