This Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Program in Filmmaking employs a total immersion approach to the subject where students develop a powerful arsenal of skills in directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, and producing. Students work in all formats from 16mm and HD to 35mm and RED Dragon, as they write, direct, shoot, and edit their own films. A strong grounding in the liberal arts and sciences serves to inform students' work and give them a well-rounded undergraduate education.

NYFA BFA student shooting a scene The New York Film Academy's Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking is unlike any other; it is an accelerated intensive degree program that can be completed in three years. One benefit of this is that students may begin internships or professional work a year earlier than they would in a standard bachelor's program, and of course save a year of tuition and expenses. It requires a rigorous schedule whereby students are in class or production for eleven months of the year with a four-week break between each of the three years. There is also a winter break of two weeks duration during the holiday season

A Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA) is distinguished from a standard Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree by its in-depth study of and professional training in the arts. In the BFA, two thirds of the degree is devoted to study and practice in fine arts and one third to general liberals arts and sciences (that ratio would be reversed for an art major in a traditional B.A. program). So the BFA student has opportunity for deep exploration and mastery of their art.