Dubai, December 18, 2014: The New York Film Academy – Abu Dhabi is supporting Emirati filmmakers by offering five (5) places on their January 2015 intake of NYFA’s Filmmaking Program, designed to give students a well-rounded filmmaking experience necessary to make their own films.
 
These five (5) short program scholarships will pay full tuition, worth $31,500, and will enable students to study the art and craft of filmmaking at the prestigious New York Film Academy – Abu Dhabi. Students in the program receive over 400 hours of hands-on instruction and production experience following a curriculum that integrates intensive study with practical experience in all the major filmmaking disciplines including directing, screenwriting, editing, and cinematography.
 
The program is for people who have the passion to plunge into full-time HD filmmaking, and to commit themselves to a focused and demanding curriculum. Students complete the program with learned skills on the latest equipment, using the latest industry standard software, gain an enormous amount of production experience, create films of their own, and gain an expanded awareness of themselves and others. The students' final films are celebrated at a special school screening open to cast, crew, friends, family, and invited guests, where the students receive their Certificates from the dedicated faculty and administration of NYFA-AD.
 
DIFF Chairman, Abdulhamid Juma commented: “We are extremely excited and thankful for the incredible opportunity the New York Film Academy – Abu Dhabi is offering to Emirati filmmakers. With each year that passes the quality increases in DIFF’s Muhr Emirati Competition highlighting the talent from our local filmmakers. Training programmes like these significantly help develop the UAE’s burgeoning film industry and we look forward to seeing the works from these young new talents at DIFF in the future.” 
“New York Film Academy – Abu Dhabi welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the growing film community and filmmakers here in the UAE”
 
To see additional information about the scholarships and The New York Film Academy, as well as to begin the application process, please email to: abudhabi@nyfa.edu and visit: www.nyfa.edu.

The deadline for applications is January 10, 2015.