Congratulations to Degree Program Graduates at NYFA Los Angeles!

January 28, 2015
Graduation NYFA
New York Film Academy Los Angeles Filmmaking, Acting, Producing, Screenwriting, Photography and Cinematography students received their MFA, MA, BFA and AFA degrees this past Saturday, January 24th during Commencement Ceremonies held at the Harmony Gold Theater in Hollywood, California. Family and friends of the students attended two afternoon graduations (at 3pm for Acting, Screenwriting, Cinematography & Photography students and 6:30pm for Filmmaking & Producing students) completely filling the 400 seat theater for each. Department chairs Art Helterbran (Filmmaking), Lynda Goodfriend (Acting), Tony Schwartz (Producing), Nunzio DeFilippis (Screenwriting), Bobbi Fabian (Photography), and Michael Pessah (Cinematography), addressed their students, offering their final words of wisdom and best wishes for the future.
graduation speech
Commencement Speakers Randal Kleiser (film director of Grease, Blue Lagoon, White Fang and Flight of the Navigator) and Patrick Rush (casting director of Party of Five, Dawson’s Creek, Supernatural and The O.C.) gave candid and humorous advice for students navigating the Hollywood system. Afterwards students, family and friends celebrated elegantly at the Riot House Restaurant in West Hollywood’s Andaz Hotel. Congratulations to all of NYFA’s 2015 degree program graduates!
graduates
Congrats to all of our NYFA LA Graduates:
MFA in Filmmaking
Saud Al-Moghirah
Alessandro Amante
Ramazanova Banu
Carlos Amaral Baptista
Nadir Bennaceur
Isaac Michael Blankenship
Maria Valentina Carmona Corral
Lilia Dalakishvili
Yul Gatewood
Robert James Gould
Ritesh Jeswani
Satoshi Kameoka
Adrenia Shanell Kemp
Alexander G. Tobias
TaoHsiu Wei
Yazhen Zhang
Wangshu Zhao
Mingtao Zhou
Yanjun Zhou

MA in Film & Media Production
Sichen Ai
Hanaa Saleh Alfassi
Obisesan Allen Bobola
Hongyi Cao
Luciana F Capela
Zhuo Chen
Konstantin Frolov
Zalikha Harun
Meghan Mildred Hooper
He Huang
Jiang Jiang
Minghang Jiang
Srinivasa Jonnavithula
Aditya Patwardhan
Nadeen Salam Said
Lisa Schulz
Dimitrios Tranos
Fei Fei Wang
Xurui Wang
Jiaduo Wu
Yining Yan
Liang Zhao
Yucheng Zhao

BFA in Filmmaking
Eskil Brattgjerd
Hang Cheng
Noé Miguel Obregón Escobar
Rachel Karen Gallagher
Georgy Gorshunov
Lu He
Junyao Hu
Joelle Kahn
Oscar Benjamin Lyons
Akshay Pradeep
Hao Zhang
Qihuan Zheng
Tong Zhou
Camila Varela Zolezzi

AFA in Filmmaking
Darío Navarro Anzaldúa
Rory Butcher
Jamie Deacon
Christopher Dyrell Dickerson
Matthew A Escobedo
Shantal Lenya Freedman
Adam Gomez
Michael James Gros
Bruno Paolucci
Christian Smith

MFA in Acting for Film
Cody Lyle Asher
Jovanna Avila
Parvane Baharian
Pamela Oma Belonwu-Ifedi
Lixuan Geng
Jean Hyppolite
Keaton Kaplan
David Grant Kuskie
Tamara Kvashilava
Kevin Chua Peng Liang
Phoebe Ray McHenry
Adam Wayne Ohl
Laura Anna-Katariina Ollikainen
Amir Abdul Rahim
Cesar Ramirez
Kathleen M. Roy
Sally Shepard
Leandro Manuel Vargas Simoza
Jeremy Sykes
Klement Tinaj
Amanda Anne Vannucchi
Nina Ce’Mone Wright
Han Xing
Xinwan Yu

BFA in Acting for Film
Gianlorenzo Albertini
Diana Salazar Arias
Adam El-Manawy
Jonghoon Han
Deniz Kara
John Franklin Karbousky II
Monique Oberholzer
Elena Petrukhina
Randall Julian William Stanley
James Earl Surman Jr
Kris Swinnen

AFA in Acting for Film
Morgan Elese Aiken
Sonia Gonzalez Arrieta
Luis Facci
Maxine Foreman
Amber Greene
Molly Kelly
Sebastian Mayer
James Millot
Candace Rachelle Morris
Shaquann Nesbitt
Nehal Patel
Nicolas Puorro
John Reeve
Arkan Satrio
Jeremy Harris Shechtman
Milbelynn Soto
Megan Leigh Wright

MFA in Producing
Cynara Aziza Cherry-Cary
Yiling Du
Gabriel Amora de Farias
Faustino Felix Figueroa
Xingyu Gao
Alessandra Micol Ghisolfi
Li Guannan
Yingshan Jiang
Omar Ahmed Tariq Murad
Yuki Naito
Charles J. Pass
Mariana Patricia Pineda M.
Lifen Ruan
Chun Shen
Xuewei Yang
Leying Zhang
Qingqing Zhang
Tianhui Zheng

BFA in Producing
Mariana Mendez Alejandre
Aida Mamezhanova
Diego Del Rio Toca

MFA in Screenwriting
Eric J. Arias
Edward E. Arnold
Livia Azzolini
Kevin André Easley Jr.
Michael E Madvedoff
Eshan Parikh
Kalei Sue Pipczynski
Rohan Sunil Thakkar
LeeMar Turner
Rebecca Verdia
Zachary Alan Xanders
Dongjing Yuan

AFA in Screenwriting
Chris Arneson
Samira Elhidmi

MFA in Photography
Casey Landon Asher
Donald Hoffman
Li Sun
Qiang Ye
Lishabai Yi
Qian Zhe

MFA in Cinematography
Loai Ibrahim A Khalifah
Ora Tiffany Littlejohn
Robert McIntosh
Gaofei Zheng