Message from the President

While shooting my first film TRAIN OF ILLUSION in 1991 I became painfully aware of the fact that I was at the mercy of others who did not share a love for or care about my film. I realized immediately that I was kidding myself with the title INDEPENDENT Filmmaker.
Something had to change… and it did. As technology advanced and reliance on film lessened for the independent, Digital Film Academy started to take shape. And on Sept. 10, 2001, in the historic Film Center building in New York City, the idea was born - Digital Film Academy!
By March 2004, Digital Film Academy became the first and only State-Licensed Vocational Digital Film School with unlimited lab time and a one-year continued production membership for graduates. This access allows DFA grads to immediately start working in this growing industry without having to invest thousands of dollars in equipment that will be obsolete before it's paid off.

All DFA hardware is state of the industry and software is always current, another great advantage for our Grads and Members. 90
Ask yourself this - will you impress your potential client by scheduling a meeting in Starbuck's or a park bench? Or by creating a first impression at our 3000 S.F. Times Square facility with separate Edit Suite as well as fifteen station edit lab, shooting studio and meeting facilities? Every other film school in creation denies graduate students access to equipment and facilities. Just when you need it the most, when you have the ability to do something, you have no way to make it happen. That has always bothered me and it does not happen here.

Great quotes
"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
"The harder I work the luckier I get."
"Nothing happens until something moves" – Albert Einstein
"Art is the lie that tells us the truth" - Pablo Picasso
"Forgiveness is the fragrance left by the flower on the feel that crushes it." - Samuel Clemens

Patrick DiRenna
Founder and President