Student Blog: Matt Haller
![Student Matt Haller standing at the Cannes Film Festival. (not NYFF).](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_0236-scaled-e1731355295827-534x383.jpeg)
Third year student Matt Haller attended the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center last month, watching sixteen films over three weeks.
CONTINUE READING POSTStudent Blog: Shuran Zhang
![Student Shuran Zhang, volunteering at the festival, standing in front of NYFF's backdrop.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Picture1-e1730223990407-534x434.png)
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.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Hsi Cheng
![Profile photo of Hsi Cheng looking off to the side.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/headshot-1_Hsi-Cheng-534x355.jpg)
UPDATE: Hsi’s film wins the DOC NYC U Competition!
Hsi Cheng’s thesis film premieres at DOC NYC next month.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni 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.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Director-Photo-1-1-e1728917050260-534x483.jpg)
SVA Alumnus Justin Ho shot his independent feature set in New York City, Broken Pieces, entirely on an iPhone.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni 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.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ANNIE-GFS-2024-1-534x459.jpg)
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.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Zixia (Jessica) Cheng
![Director Zixia (Jessica) Cheng laughs as her cat appears to use her computer, which displays the film title shot.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image_67219713-scaled-e1728394866506-534x491.jpg)
Recent graduate Zixia (Jessica) Cheng writes an alumni blog chronicling the production of her 2024 thesis film, Lucky Shot.
CONTINUE READING POSTStudent Blog: Nicole Quindere Duarté
![Headshot of blog writer Nicole with dramatic lighting holding rope.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_2034-e1727894839297-534x430.jpeg)
Nicole Quindere Duarté and a select group of classmates were picked by faculty member Dejan Georgevich to attend an ASC Masterclass last weekend.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Mina Huang
![Director Mina Huang stands on set with arms crossed wearing a headset.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/mina-huang-534x428.png)
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).
CONTINUE READING POSTFaculty Blog: Nicolas Luna
![Headshot of a man in an office wearing a neckerchief and blue shirt and glasses.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-16-at-3.01.03-PM-534x515.png)
Senior Systems Administrator Nicolas Luna has been going to Gotham Week for over a decade.
CONTINUE READING POSTStudent Blog: Matt Haller
![Young man sitting on a wooden porch, leaning his hands over his knees and his back against a wooden column.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/unnamed-1-e1726148423725-534x407.jpg)
Third year student Matt Haller writes about film history and the cinematic influences on his second year film in this student blog.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Maura Garnett
![Maura on set of her film Disoriented, holding a clapper while the crew sets up behind her on set.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-21-at-12.16.08 PM-534x355.png)
Recent graduate, Maura Garnett has been selected to screen as part of SVA’s After School Special next month.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Khalil Walker
![Khalil Walker at the BFA Film thesis screening in the Silas Theater as his film plays in the background.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-17-at-12.38.58 PM-534x392.png)
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.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Robert McMahon
![Robert McMahon sits with earbuds in looking down.](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PHOTO-1-Portrait-scaled-e1716904522634-534x468.jpg)
Robert Samuel McMahon on the creation of his thesis film Personal Pizza and post-graduation achievements and hurdles.
CONTINUE READING POSTStudent Blog: R.J. Solomon
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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.
CONTINUE READING POSTAlumni Blog: Louis Yeo
![Alumnus Louis Yeo stands in front of an SVA BFA Film Step and Repeat holding flowers smiling](https://film.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2340-scaled-e1707755683883-534x366.jpg)
Alumnus Louis Yeo (2023) on the making of his thesis film and the transformative power of storytelling.
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