The Summer Humanities Institute is a three-week residential program where rising high school juniors and seniors explore the big questions at the heart of the humanities in seminars led by distinguished Stanford professors. Participants spend the first two weeks intensively studying and researching a topic in history, literature, or philosophy, attending daily lectures by the faculty members, and participating in group discussions and activities in the afternoon. During their third week, participants work closely with their professors, graduate students, and writing mentors to produce original research projects.

Picture Editors are story tellers but unlike writers who use text, or lyricists who use words, editors use visual images, dialogue, sound, special effects and music to stir the emotions of the audience and tell our stories. This course will analyze and deconstruct all the elements of the art of creatively manipulating visual images through editing.

You will see realized on-screen a story now “inside you” that you feel you just have to tell. The core of the course will be the individual project. Your imagination is the first step to a successful summer.

Explore the world of classic and contemporary Musical Theatre through this personal and intensive course work. Expand your vocal performance skills and develop your audition book by immersing yourself in AMDA's tried and true techniques. Train with experienced Broadway performers and directors as you build an original show to highlight your very best. This session ends in a live presentation for the AMDA community.

Explore the world of classic and contemporary Musical Theatre through this personal and intensive course work. Expand your vocal performance skills and develop your audition book by immersing yourself in AMDA's tried and true techniques. Train with experienced Broadway performers and directors as you build an original show to highlight your very best. This session ends in a live presentation for the AMDA community.

Explore the best of what's happening in contemporary theatre! Challenge yourself to explore new texts and current playwrights under the direction of AMDA's stellar faculty of working artists. Present works in an end-of-session live theatrical presentation in one of AMDA's premier black box performance spaces.

Experience total immersion in dance technique and performance by working with dancers and choreographers of the Broadway stage, film and television, and contemporary concert dance. Take your dance dynamics and expression to a whole new level. This session includes a dance-for-camera music-video experience and an end-of-session live theatrical presentation.

Learn the Craft of Filmmaking Whether you see yourself pursuing a career in filmmaking or want to learn these practical and applicable skills for yourself, New York Film Academy’s film camps are perfect for everyone with an interest in making films. In all New York Film Academy (NYFA) summer film camps for teens, each student writes, shoots, directs and edits his or her own films. Our film camps are designed for people with little or no experience in making films. The programs focus on the fundamental elements of visual storytelling that enable the students to direct their own projects.

Learn the Craft of Filmmaking Whether you see yourself pursuing a career in filmmaking or want to learn these practical and applicable skills for yourself, New York Film Academy’s film camps are perfect for everyone with an interest in making films. In all New York Film Academy (NYFA) summer film camps for teens, each student writes, shoots, directs and edits his or her own films. Our film camps are designed for people with little or no experience in making films. The programs focus on the fundamental elements of visual storytelling that enable the students to direct their own projects.

Many high school students will get the theater bug at some point and act in their school’s musicals and plays. At the New York Film Academy’s Teen Acting for Film Camps, we aim to harness that excitement and energy for the stage and help young aspiring actors to make the transition to the screen. Whether a student has theatre acting experience, performed in a few short films with friends, or simply is taken by the dream of becoming an actor, our acting summer camps offers many possibilities to deepen your training and ultimately, to help guide you towards your dreams!

Many high school students will get the theater bug at some point and act in their school’s musicals and plays. At the New York Film Academy’s Teen Acting for Film Camps, we aim to harness that excitement and energy for the stage and help young aspiring actors to make the transition to the screen. Whether a student has theatre acting experience, performed in a few short films with friends, or simply is taken by the dream of becoming an actor, our acting summer camps offers many possibilities to deepen your training and ultimately, to help guide you towards your dreams!

Many high school students will get the theater bug at some point and act in their school’s musicals and plays. At the New York Film Academy’s Teen Acting for Film Camps, we aim to harness that excitement and energy for the stage and help young aspiring actors to make the transition to the screen. Whether a student has theatre acting experience, performed in a few short films with friends, or simply is taken by the dream of becoming an actor, our acting summer camps offers many possibilities to deepen your training and ultimately, to help guide you towards your dreams!

At a time when anyone with a smartphone can be called a “photographer,” NYFA’s photography camps are focused on shaping the next generation of photographers to not simply be “good,” but to become truly extraordinary in an increasingly crowded field. Students in the photography summer camps work with a network of professional photographers, industry professionals, and their fellow classmates to obtain new ways of looking at the same image while learning a wide variety of technical and artistic approaches.

Explore the inner workings of the fashion concept and development process — from sketching techniques used by master designers to the technical skills needed to successfully execute your own ideas. Develop a Mood Board to present your ideas and fashion themes. Learn the components that drive the creation and execution of your very own designs. Using professional grade industrial sewing equipment in our state of of the art fashion studio, learn how to take your own hand drawn and illustrated concepts into finished garments.

Develop and design art that carries your own message while exploring urban art throughout history as it relates to populist themes such as peace, justice, freedom, human rights, and equality. You will learn the fundamentals of printmaking by incorporating screen printing and wood block techniques with drawing, painting, and collage, to print on tee shirts, tote bags, posters and more.