NYU Prague Student Blog
By Ginelle Bamfo Ginelle is an NYU Tisch student who was a part of the selective film program based at FAMU, the Prague Film Academy. She writes about her reflections on working with Czech actors and how invaluable her Czech production manager proved to be. As a film student, the opportunity to work on 35mm […]
Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes with me outside of a classroom knows that I’m always singing. This unfortunately isn’t some hyperbole I write to serve as a catchy hook for this article. To the annoyance of many close friends, a melody perpetually hums in the background of my thoughts; that is […]
It’s fall, and some new TV is coming our way. Truthfully, most of it is already here since it’s November… but regardless! As a self-certified TV critic, and screenwriter who loves and writes TV shows, I have eight recommendations, mostly in the realms of comedy and drama! This list includes shows that I feel have […]
On November 12th, NYU film students shot a film called Small Elegy directed by Abe Kaye. They are part of a program based at FAMU, The Film Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (and the alma mater of Miloš Forman). “It’s based on the death of the Jewish poet, Jiří Orton, which took place in Prague […]
As the crowds of tourists stream through the entrance of Prague’s Charles Bridge, Sam Ngai stands still. Ngai, 19, bundled up against the early March chill, clutches a worn, spiral-bound sketchbook and pencil. She tilts her face up at the Old Town Bridge Tower, finding a perfect angle for a well-composed drawing. Her slightly frozen […]
On Friday, April 7th, the NYU PragueCast team released their latest episode of the podcast! Titled “Stress”, the 18-minute audio piece is an exploration into how mental pressure exists in Prague. It features a number of diverse voices, as the team members interviewed locals and experts in the field to better understand stress. In […]
Martin Kratochvíl is one of Czech’s biggest jazz and jazz fusion pioneers. In 1964 he co founded the group Jazz Q which allowed him to become one of the most popular musicians of Czechoslovakia. Leading up to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Kratochvíl and his group continued gaining popularity both within Czechoslovakia and the world. […]
In her early 20s, Anna Fodor saw a poster for a job opening as an English teacher in Prague, and she made the move to her mother’s home country–the Czech Republic. She quickly realized that lecturing in front of a room of medical students about confusing, scientific terminology was unfulfilling. Fodor then discovered podcasts, and […]
Sofiia Shkarpita, 17, wrote “Siren” for NYU Prague’s Production and Publication: Travel Writing course, reflecting upon her experiences as a Ukrainian student in Prague. Her piece was later published in the Czech magazine, Reflex. A siren that goes off every first Wednesday of the month at 12 pm. A simple, already unnoticeable thing for […]
by Grace Bradley Roma people, known by the derogatory term ‘gypsies’, have been historically persecuted and still face extreme racism in the Czech Republic and many other former communist countries. During the Holocaust, 90% of the Czech Roma people were killed in concentration camps. In the Czech Republic 2011 Census, less than 14,000 people (about […]