One of New York City's most respected and longest running non-profit film schools and media arts training organization. Film/Video Arts supports independent filmmakers by providing access to filmmaking training, production services and fiscal sponsorship. FVA provides and encourages interaction between established and emerging filmmakers, to create a community of Media Producers dedicated to Independent Production.

The Film Division at Columbia in NYC, offers a curriculum centered around film as a storytelling medium. The program combines directing, writing, and producing with technical training and history/theory. Faculty includes veteran and new members of the New York and Hollywood film communities. Alumni continue to help set the standard for both independent and mainstream cinema.

An intensive, hands on program which takes students from concept to marketing and all the practical steps in between. With all due respect to Mr. Godard, we at the IFI, think it takes quite a bit more. Our intensive, hands on program is also comprehensive taking students from concept to marketing while working the practical steps in between. The digital age has arrived and while technology changes every time we turn around, the rules of good Storytelling have remained the same for five thousand years. We don't choose to see a movie because of the camera it was shot with or the surface it was recorded on; we go because of the story, the actors, the director, or even the producer. Sid Gannis, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said at the last Academy Award ceremony, "State of the art technique will change, state of the heart storytelling will not." With an understanding that the technology of film continues to evolve, IFI focuses primarily on the art and craft of good storytelling.

Tisch was founded in 1965 as an intensive conservatory, training in Theatre and Film and has grown to enroll 3200 students a year offering BFA, MFA, MA, MPS and PhD degrees through three institutes: the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, the Skirball Center for New Media, and the Institute of Performing Arts.

Offering courses in film editing and Apple certification. The focal point of the program is their "Six-Week Art of Editing" course, in which students work editing their own work.