It was a beautiful California day on Saturday, May 28th when New York Film Academy students receiving their MFA, AFA, MA and BFA degrees in Filmmaking, Acting, Producing, Screenwriting, Photography, Game Design, Documentary, Cinematography and Feature Track studies, gathered at the Harmony Gold Preview house in West Hollywood for their degree program commencement ceremonies. Graduations at 10:00am, 2:00pm, and 6:00pm were packed with family and friends of the graduating students showing their support.
Commencement speakers actor Peter Onorati (Goodfellas, Rocketman), director/actor Marty Sader (Monday Nights At Seven, Most High), and producer/writer Jeanette Collins (Big Love, Suddenly Susan) as well as NYFA department chairs and deans gave encouraging words of advice for navigating the entertainment industry and life in general.
Congratulations to all of NYFA Los Angeles 2016 degree program graduates!
10:00am Graduation
MFA in Acting
Amitabh Agarwal
Nicoletta Brunelli
Pablo Castel
Theodore George Crosby
Sebastian Faure
Kyly Hawk
Andrew William Lynton Jackson
Danny Kay
Delon Lyadi
Federico Mallet Flores
Andrea Méndez
Tetiana Mesiura
Matthew Miller
Julia Edith Arteaga Padilla
Wilfredo Ramos Jr.
Katisha Sargeant
BFA in Acting
Joseline Angulo
Roman Arnaize
Melissa Carvajal
Schuyler Dalenberg
Andrea Fernandez Rivera
Robert Fisher
Elizabeth Frohlich
Giulia Giovanetti
Helena Horta
Kardelen Isleyen
Jordan Knapp
Bronson Lassetter
Tracy Lewis
Maria Isabel Luege Marvan
Ali Mahmood
Nicholas Massa
Yang Li
Yu Lin
Valeriya Matveeva
Muhammad Mazhar
Anthon Meyer
Joshua Michael Moore
Meenaz Palsani
Samantha Prevost
Laura Gudiño Rodriguez
Asdis Thula Thorlaksdottir
AFA in Acting
Emily Accattato
Claudia Juliana Arciniegas Rodriguez
Christopher Beech
Ashley Cardenas
Lavelle Clarke
Fany De La Tejera
Hanna Dotevall
Joseph Daniel Equihua
Janet George
Raven Lee Glover
Elizabeth Grimaldo
Vera Veronica Järvi
Joshua Liwosz
Nina Ferreira Lopes
Gaston Alexander Lopez III
Juan Manrique Ugarte
Kamali Martin
Bianca Martins Viegas
Lucia Moerk
Maria de Sa
Peter Wang
Jasmin Kirst
Onur Tekin
Ian Warner
Ronald Watts
Brett Yuille
2:00pm Graduation
MFA in Filmmaking
Nada Al Mojadedi
Sulafa Ibrahim Alasiri
Majid Alsharif
Victoria Nicks
Alexandr Shashenkov
Victor Alberto Velasco
Rodrigo Zanforlin
Kshitij Bal
Anatoliy Kim
Xiongze Ren
Hui Yuan
MFA in Filmmaking (Feature Track)
Keith Anderson
Sonia Bajaj
Li Yuan
MA in Film & Media Production
Oguzhan Akdogan
Denise Alessandra Ambroggio
Chaitanya Kumar Gandikota
Ruchira Janwalikar
Ievegen Khazin
Nency Maisuria
Witawit Rattanathitinun
Andalib Rubayat
Luis Sanchez
Victoria Tapp
BFA in Filmmaking
Jon Beroiz Lopez
Tomas Diaz Gomez
Stephanie Dieter
Brianna Flores-Stanton
Shane Golden Antonucci
Alejandro Kahuam
Haifeng Wang
Xuhan Gao
Aijia Li
Zhong Ren
Sandy Sai
Sixing Su
Li Wei
AFA in Filmmaking
Maans Reimer
MFA in Photography
Amani Alhomeid
Alaa Alrafaihi
Lian Liu
Alify Nasution
Nataliya Rudenko
Madawi Zabarmawi
BFA in Photography
Gabriela Azuaje Rodriguez
Casey McGeorge
Colleen Stavrakos
MFA in Cinematography
Rakan Abdullah Aljamie
Jiachen Dong
Dmitry Fursov
Ruixi Gao
Bowen Jiang
Mohammed Khayat
Ji Yoon Kim
Christopher Brendan Kistan
Nattaphon Voranapa
Yuchen Yan
Bo Ye
6:00pm Graduation
MFA in Screenwriting
Charles Ancelle
Jimena Lucia Carias Zuniga
Saanya Dua
Ashley Hargrove
Hyunmin Jun
Jeff Kimball
Robert Thorpe
Bartosz Tomaszewski
Breonna Young
BFA in Screenwriting
Gal Cohen
Dion Moosa
Nuttawuthi Nakong
Adam Teitelbaum
Michael Teitelbaum
AFA in Screenwriting
Allison Catalfumo
Anastasiia Cherkashyna
Joon Sung Seung
MFA in Producing
Dusica Aleksic
Alastair David Boyd
Krystina Olivia Christiansen
Jiyin Hong
Vamsi Jonnalagadda
Yi Ke Kou
Sai Sen Lee
Xiaoxiao Ma
Shane Miller
Julian Molina
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Musikhin
Annamaria Pupart
Nelson Rivera-Jimenez
Ruben Rueda Valenzuela
Yuxiao Wang
Xiaoshi Zhu
MFA in Producing (Feature Track)
Mohammed Alshoaiby
BFA in Producing
Tom Bateman
Rebecka Kristensson
Milagro Mejia
AFA in Producing
Nyshon Ferrell
Chor Kei Hui
Andreina Perez
Sim Sagiroglu
Jing Shi
Yizhou Su
Huan Yu
Kai Zhao
Joel Seidl
Peijun Zou
BFA in Animation
Mohammed Abuhaimd
Yousef Badeeb
Jessica Chung
Tian Lan