New York, NY, Aug. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — This spring, New York Film Academy (NYFA) students and alumni were honored to be accepted into The Academy GOLD Production Track for the summer of 2022. The Academy GOLD Rising Program is a talent development, diversity, and inclusion initiative created by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), available to students with interests in cinematography, costume design, film editing, production design, sound, and visual effects.
Hundreds of students compete to place within five available slots across each of the disciplines mentioned above. As part of The Academy GOLD program, selected students are given the opportunity to experience a film shoot on a professional sound stage and shadow an active production set. After students complete the program, they are assigned a mentor to guide their professional career paths. Students are denoted as an Academy GOLD alumnus for life, which comes with exciting benefits such as the chance to attend the Academy Awards.
This year, eight NYFA alumni and current students were chosen as part of The Academy GOLD Rising Program.
NYFA Students Selected for 2022:
- Jessica Pradhan (Editing)
- Pavitra Verma (Editing)
- Arthur Guimaraes (Production Design)
- Jahnavi Kapadia (Production Design)
- Andrea Figueroa (Production Design)
- Shubham Gosalia (Cinematography)
- Mansi Bhajanka (Cinematography)
- Inna Mikhailova (Visual Effects)
Students will be graduating this Saturday, August 6th, at…
