When the Academy for Careers in Television & Film (ACTvF) learned it would be one of three schools coming into a brand-new facility with spectacular views of Manhattan, both students and staff felt as if they had won the lottery. At the time, the city public school was located in the basement of a rundown building in Astoria, Queens. “It’s an extreme upgrade,” says Alan Metzger, a former television director, who cofounded ACTvF in 2008. “We are the American Dream—we went from the basement to the penthouse in five years.”
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