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Archives: November 11, 2024

Student Blog: Matt Haller

Student Matt Haller standing at the Cannes Film Festival. (not NYFF).

Third year student Matt Haller attended the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center last month, watching sixteen films over three weeks.

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Student Blog: Shuran Zhang

Student Shuran Zhang, volunteering at the festival, standing in front of NYFF's backdrop.

Student Shuran Zhang writes a student blog about her experience volunteering at this year’s New York Film Festival. 

SVA BFA Film was a sponsor of New York Film Festival 62.

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Alumni Blog: Hsi Cheng

Profile photo of Hsi Cheng looking off to the side.

Hsi Cheng’s thesis film premieres at DOC NYC next month.

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Alumni Blog: Justin Ho

This is a black and white portrait photograph of Directot Justin Ho, with short dark hair. He's wearing glasses with dark frames and is looking slightly to the side with a subtle smile. He's wearing a patterned collared shirt.

SVA Alumnus Justin Ho shot his independent feature set in New York City, Broken Pieces, entirely on an iPhone.

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Alumni Blog: Annie Fleisch

Photograph of Annie Fleisch. She is wearing a long-sleeved maroon dress and smiling. She stands in front of a white wall displaying the logos of various film festival sponsors.

Annie Fleisch writes an alumni blog on how her award winning thesis film, Home Coming, led to an acquisitions trainee position at Sony Pictures Classics. 

 

I completed my thesis film Home Coming in April 2023.

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Alumni Blog: Zixia (Jessica) Cheng

Director Zixia (Jessica) Cheng laughs as her cat appears to use her computer, which displays the film title shot.

Recent graduate Zixia (Jessica) Cheng writes an alumni blog chronicling the production of her 2024 thesis film, Lucky Shot.

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Student Blog: Nicole Quindere Duarté

Headshot of blog writer Nicole with dramatic lighting holding rope.

Nicole Quindere Duarté and a select group of classmates were picked by faculty member Dejan Georgevich to attend an ASC Masterclass last weekend.

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Alumni Blog: Mina Huang

Director Mina Huang stands on set with arms crossed wearing a headset.

Recent graduate Mina Huang’s thesis film Hobby has been selected to screen at SVA’s After School Special this weekend (along with alumni Maura Garnett).

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Faculty Blog: Nicolas Luna

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Senior Systems Administrator Nicolas Luna has been going to Gotham Week for over a decade.

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Student Blog: Matt Haller

Young man sitting on a wooden porch, leaning his hands over his knees and his back against a wooden column.

Third year student Matt Haller writes about film history and the cinematic influences on his second year film in this student blog.

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Alumni Blog: Maura Garnett

Maura on set of her film Disoriented, holding a clapper while the crew sets up behind her on set.

Recent graduate, Maura Garnett has been selected to screen as part of SVA’s After School Special next month.

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Alumni Blog: Khalil Walker

Khalil Walker at the BFA Film thesis screening in the Silas Theater as his film plays in the background.

BFA Film graduate Khalil Walker’s alumni blog gives us a behind the scenes look inside the making of his 2024 thesis film, Pass Da Mic.

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Alumni Blog: Robert McMahon

Robert McMahon sits with earbuds in looking down.

Robert Samuel McMahon on the creation of his thesis film Personal Pizza and post-graduation achievements and hurdles.

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Student Blog: R.J. Solomon

a cinematographer looking through an eye piece of a camera

Third year student R.J Solomon details the making of a music video, and the quick thinking solution he and his crew members came up with when an actor didn’t show up.

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Alumni Blog: Louis Yeo

Alumnus Louis Yeo stands in front of an SVA BFA Film Step and Repeat holding flowers smiling

Alumnus Louis Yeo (2023) on the making of his thesis film and the transformative power of storytelling.

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