Upcoming at NYFA



Conversations | Jodi Savitz on “Girl on Girl” and Femme Invisibility

We talk with the Fiscally Sponsored filmmaker about her feature-length documentary that follows the stories of feminine lesbians. There were moments in my late teens when I would occasionally wear Abercrombie distressed jeans with a ribbed tank-top in order to feel a bit ‘gayer’ […] it was never a style I wholly embraced or felt…

Recap | Structuring Movies presented by Sam Pollard

“Editing is like sculpting. All the material is like clay, unformed clay, and my job is to make it into a story and give it shape, form, and a story arc.” – Sam Pollard Filmmakers: once you’ve developed an idea for a documentary film, shot it on your vintage 16mm or digital camera, and gathered…

Conversations | Svea Schneider, Founder of INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival in Long Island City

“Life is movement and movement is dance…We might not have the same income level or skin color, but we all have a physical body and can relate to each other through dance.” It’s the inaugural year of NYFA Fiscally Sponsored project, INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival, where 24 distinct dance companies will “maneuver through playgrounds, appear…

Recap | Film Distribution and the Educational Market

“The education system supports documentary filmmaking.” – Livia Bloom Are you a documentary filmmaker in search of distribution opportunities? Could your film be a source of rich, academic material for the classroom? Consider tapping into the educational market. According to Livia Bloom, Vice President of Icarus Films, the education system supports and sustains the world…

Interview | Laura Naylor, Director of Fiscally-Sponsored Project“Bartleby”

The stop-motion film she created with co-director Kristen Kee is sweeping the festival circuit. The meticulously made stop-motion film that took two years to complete, Laura Naylor’s and Kristen Kee’s reimagination of Herman Melville’s Bartleby, has finally hit the film festival circuit. Having already made appearances at the Aspen Film Shortsfest and the Seattle International Film…