A NJ Non-profit Company - 501 (c)(3)
ABOUT US
Industry Media Arts was founded in 2009 on a single conviction: students who can't afford film school deserve the same quality of training as those who can. Seventeen years later, that conviction is why we exist at the exact moment we believe matters most, before a young person's career path narrows into a default rather than a choice.
We are not a classroom company. We are practitioners who teach. Our founder brings Emmy and Telly Award-winning production experience spanning national broadcast, sports, documentary, and corporate media, along with two decades teaching media production at the university level, and we bring that same industry standard into every class and every student production.
IMA is based in Monmouth County and partners with schools, vocational programs, and colleges across Monmouth and Ocean Counties to design and deliver media production and journalism programs built to last beyond a pilot year. We develop curriculum, deliver hands-on training, and build the relationships that give students a real pathway into the industry, including our partnership with Black Swallowtail Studios in Eatontown.
Our programs have produced documented outcomes: student placement into full-time industry work, morning news programs running in schools, mini-documentaries screened publicly, and students accepted into competitive college media programs.
We measure success the way the industry does, by what students can do when they leave the room.
