Cameras rolling at Abu Dhabi film school
DUBAI -- Budding students of cinema can now enroll for study in an unlikely new destination for film -- the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi, which opened its doors a month ago, is the latest addition to a multilayered push by the oil capital to reinvent itself as a regional hub for culture and film.
The film school, which maintains branches in Europe and the U.S. -- including Universal Studios in Burbank, New York and Harvard University -- has been seeking to expand into the Middle East for some time, according to John Sammon, former director of education at the NYFA in Universal Studios and head of the new school here.
"We've always looked at laying down roots in the Middle East, and when the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage approached us, it just seemed like the most logical thing to do," Sammon said.
The New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi, which opened its doors a month ago, is the latest addition to a multilayered push by the oil capital to reinvent itself as a regional hub for culture and film.
The film school, which maintains branches in Europe and the U.S. -- including Universal Studios in Burbank, New York and Harvard University -- has been seeking to expand into the Middle East for some time, according to John Sammon, former director of education at the NYFA in Universal Studios and head of the new school here.
"We've always looked at laying down roots in the Middle East, and when the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage approached us, it just seemed like the most logical thing to do," Sammon said.
- 3/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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