The New York Film Academy's Musical Theatre and Film Conservatory has announced new awards and screenings of two original movie musical short films.
Lifeless #BeingKindaDeadSortaSucks is already making a splash with its Award of Excellence at Indie Fest and is an official selection for many festivals including Big Apple Film Festival, Terror Film Festival, Rumschpringe Int'l Film Festival, and Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival. Everybody Dies Film Festival, which will also feature the film in October, had this to say about Lifeless, "...a short film that's a healthy dose of GLEE with a dusting of DEATH BECOMES HER and a sprinkling of DAWN OF THE DEAD and a dash of HEATHERS.""About three years ago, I was invited to create an innovative training program for musical theatre and film at the New York Film Academy and insisted that it must be a holistic approach to fabulous acting training for both stage and screen," said Musical Theatre and Film Conservatory Chair, VP Boyle. "I also felt that with the success of behemoths like Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Smash and Glee that we were seeing a wonderful new interest in the musical film genre. Why not develop a program where we would create original movie musicals in an experimental lab specifically tailored to our talented group of rising stars? It became very clear when Andrew Gerle-winner of 4 Richard Rogers Awards, the Kleban Award and a Jonathan Larson Award-decided to collaborate on this project that we were far from any typical academic scenario, but rather in the realm of an independent musical short film. Our motto for everything was 'perfect is boring' and so we explored urban themes that were truly relevant to actual twenty-somethings living/surviving in New York City."Videos