NYFA Los Angeles Holds Virtual Graduation Celebration for Spring 2021 Graduates

May 28, 2021

On May 8th, NYFA’s Los Angeles campus saw 165 degree students graduate. A virtual  commencement ceremony was held for the graduating class of 2021 allowing students to collect their degrees and officially become NYFA alumni.

Commencement Speaker Camrus Johnson (Batwoman, The Sun is Also a Star) joined the graduation live and delivered an inspirational speech about how pursuing a career in the film industry is “risky, scary, can be frustrating, and how pursuing that dream makes a person not normal.  It makes them extraordinary.  That fighting for this goal, climbing for it, and falling down is worth it…as long as they pick themselves up and keep going.”  And how, in no time, these students will be the ones holding for and hearing an applause.

NYFA Los Angeles also introduced its third student speaker Emma Daniels (BFA Acting), who addressed peers on this milestone achievement. Students also were shown a graduation video that was streamed during the ceremony.

BFA in 3D Animation & Visual Effects

Noura Alqubaisi

Angel Gradilla

Fangyuan Liu

Yuping Zeng

 

AFA in Acting for Film

Mariana Sanjuan

 

BFA in Acting for Film

Kristin AlNimri

Adlih Cristal Torres Alvarado

Austin Lee Barksdale

Georgia Alixandra Beam

John “Savage” Bention

Stephen Bennett Bleeker

Chloe Breen

Yu-Fang (Annie) Chang

William Collins

Emma Daniels

Iunia Georgiana Dinu

Milad El Doumani

Jérémie Boyamba

Alex Giarratano

Karolina Glazunova

Keoni Hall

Andre Heard

Jason Holland

Camila Jimenez Alvarado

Freda Yifan Jing

Salif Bobby Kone II

Benjamin Leder

Natasha Lewis

Yifangting Li

Ronaldo Madera

Tshepang Modise

Fenton Chavez-Montesino

Zach Morris

Jordan Nolen

Darcy Jeanette O’Toole

Aldana Pavicich

Kenneth Phillips

Willie Poole

Eduarda Fukuoka

Joshua Sanchez

Marie Solimena

Angelo Valotta Patino

Siphesihle Vilakazi

Dashun Latrell Worthen

Ari Zhaukhanova

 

MFA in Acting for Film

Frederick Scott Basnight II

Treyvon Hinson

Shermera Hughes

Melisa Lopez

Gimbals Moonier

Asaadhya Pal

Ya Qi

Charles E Savage

Rashvir Singh

 

AFA in Filmmaking

Jorge Abdou

 

BFA in Filmmaking

Qiao Ba

Timur Badanov

Thomas Barth

Lord Zeth Zander Black

Shivam Rajesh Dodhia

Veljko Dronjak

Rui Du

Ian Alec Franco

Joshua Fraser

Alessio Giurgola

Siyang Huang

Arnav Kasbekar

Bu Lu

Armaan Lucknowala

Robin Lyu

Kenneth Ma

Flaminia Mereu

Alice Nicolini

Junyao Ren

Filippo Savoia

Haoxi Tan

Nghi Tran Nguyen Hoang

Oliver Weinmann

 

MA in Film and Media Production

Ricardo Cruz

Muhammad Saram Dogar

Nidhi Jarmanwala

Da Lin

Dongyu Lu

Sabreen Taha

Sam Triplett

Daniela Cruz Yomayusa

Peiying Zhu

 

MFA in Filmmaking

Charles Hamilton Allen

Fernanda Belmar

Omar Fayek

Viviana Garibay Canavati

Anderson Grant

Sharan Gupta

Mohamed Gamil Ibraheem

Yao Ji

Marzin Muslim Khaidar

Sushmita Kohli

Chris Bixi Li

Gary L

Tsai-Yi Pan

Chi-Yang Victor Shao

Wei-Lin Shen

Wan Yi Shih

Justin Stapleton

Jiasheng Wang

Phillip Jeffrey WIlliams Jr.

Ziyan Zhu

 

BFA in Game Design

Jordan Barboza

Mi Diaz

 

BFA in Photography

Sabryna “Hunny” Flores

Abbey Friedman

Sophia Ortega

Carlos Alberto Pascal Zavala

Jeremy Rich

Xiaoyu ‘Kiko’ Yuan

 

MFA in Photography

Huaishu Fei

Shaokang Ji

Anqi Liu

Brian Thomas Myers

 

BFA in Producing

Oksana Chester

Shuotian Hu

Zhongyu Leng

Xue Ni

Bocong Sun

Jiani Zhou

 

MA in Producing

Adam Ferguson

Yifei Hong

Tuesday Lewis Harris

Guanhui Li

Mengmeng Lu

Yiwen Sun

 

MFA in Producing

Zhaolin Chen

Emerson Geter

Pengyifan “Erin” Lou

Joshua J. Mensah

Anna Szymanska

Anisha Thakur

Wenxin Yang

 

BFA in Screenwriting

David Avila Jr.

Babatunde Awe

Ian Brown

Malin Cantu

Aaron Herrera

Thomas J Horn

Lorenzo Elijah Hudson

Margot Kloster

Taylor Nichka

Angel Nnaemeka Ogwo

Stefanie Webb

Roberto Posada Panero

Rivka Shmuel

 

MFA in Screenwriting

Caleb Bloomer

André Luiz Dragoni da Costa

Almas Haidery

Courtney Kim

Owen Newberry

  1. Paolucci

Anna Pujolras

Charlotte Glen Quarrie

Jai Roberson

Lucas Romero

Federico Sanna

Xavier A. Vazquez

Eugene E. Williams

Zhao, Chao

New York Film Academy congratulates its graduates and wishes them continued success in their professional paths. We can’t wait to see what comes next!