New York Film Academy (NYFA) would like to congratulate another class of graduating students—the Winter Class of 2019!
The end of a program is always bittersweet—our students and instructors develop a strong bond over the many intense hours spent learning, practicing, and crafting projects. But before the winter class of 2019 walked across the stage to accept their diplomas, NYFA celebrated all of the graduates’ work with a series of final presentations.
In the days leading up to graduation, all students were given an opportunity to show off their work to family, friends, and entertainment professionals; Filmmaking, Animation, Producing, and Acting for Film students held their final screenings at the NYFA Theater and on the Warner Brothers Studios backlot; Photography students had their work displayed in galleries throughout Los Angeles; Game Design students held a showcase where anyone in the school could play their games, and Screenwriting and Producing students had the chance to pitch their projects to industry professionals.
The winter 2019 graduation ceremony was held at the Harmony Gold Theatre in Hollywood; the graduating class of 2019 was so large that the ceremony had to be broken into three parts. Families and friends came from all over the world to support and celebrate the graduates on their big day.
Guest speaker Bryce Neilsen advised graduating students to be patient with their journeys in the entertainment industry as it took him and many of his colleagues a few years to get where they wanted to be. “You’re gonna go through highs and lows … especially when you’re trying to crack that first job,” he said. “As you go along this journey, always remember the people around you, because those relationships will help with growth in the industry but also on a personal level.”
Neilsen finished on a hopeful note: “This is a great time to be really telling your story, because there are so many spaces online and elsewhere to turn ideas into a reality.”
New York Film Academy would like to congratulate all of the incredible students who have completed their training here; we look forward to watching your films, seeing your photographs, playing your games, and celebrating your creative endeavors for years to come. Congratulations!
Winter 2019 Graduates
Justin Agardy
Jasmine Akbari
Bita Alahyan
Anastasia Aleskovskaya
Omar Alturk
Daniel Annerl
Anastasiia Atroshchenko
Jorge Alberto Aviña
Victoria Awo
Dana Bailey
Gulshat Baimuratova
Darien Baker
David Barbeschi
Marcus Battle
Eduardo Bautista Falcon
Jean Manuel Beauchamp
Jason Bellitto
Darya Belokhon
Jorge Berberena
Tia Blackwill
Kamilla Brenneysen
Brianna Patrice Brents
David Lamar Bridges
Joshua Brooks
Timothy Burk
Junior Cadet
Jingshi Cai
Hui Cao
Anthony Cheuk On Chan
Wei-Yang Chen
Hao Cui
Zhankhara Daurova
Brandon Davis
Noemi De Cassai
Ines Carolyne de los Santos Almanzar
Medford Brook Deforest
Paul Deorio
Jack Dill
Karyna Dobrykava
Christina Douglas
Peipei Duan
Jacob Dudley
Justin Paul Durivou
Anthony Joseph Esposito
Dillan Elias Farmer
Alexander Formenius
Tiffany Fresco
Jinjing Fu
Natalia Fuentealba
Michael Furlough
Alexia Garcia del Rio
Jonathan Aaron Garza
Drew Gibbs
Kim Goncalves Cobelo
Mia Gonzalez
Christopher Royce Goodloe Jr.
David Greenley
Nicolas Gutierrez
Chase Hahn
Ryan Harrington
Erik Christopher Hjortnaes
Tarik Holmes
Helena Horta
Logan Howard
Yao Hu
Jihao Huang
Pengfei Huang
Bo-Yu Huang
Daiana Ibrayeva
Alecksandar Jackowicz
Jerry James
Hannah Jauregui
Yuqing Jin
Íris Heiða Jónsdóttir
Folake Kehinde
Shreya Khandelwal
Khairulla-Sultan Khissamiyev
Samuel Alan Kiper
Joseph Koroma
Brandon Lattman
Jeffrey Lay
Alyssa Leatherman
Yue Kei Lee
Brian Leung
Yuan Li
Guanzhen Li
Xin Li
Xiangran Lin
Ruiyang Liu
Yutao Liu
Ying-Jung Liu
Qingya Liu
Siyun Liu
Yilong Liu
Ye Lu
Shihan Lu
Ruoqian Lyu
Karan Maini
Shahsaan Malik
Juan Manrique Ugarte
Madison-Ainsley Miller
Harrison William Misfeldt
Dave Money
Luciana Moreno Contreras
Jana Elizabeth Mosquera Andrade
Elisa Tazia Nanty
Nuha Nazrah
Gabriela Ono
Scott Owen
Mohit Panday
Roman Peremyshlin
Santiago Ponce de Leon
John Mauricio Porras
Zhizhenzi Qiu
Anthony Robert Riordan
Nigel Dyllian Robinson
Trevier Rolle
Missira Ross
Siyue Rui
Ruksima
Sadi Sadi Eliyesil
Syed Osama Sami
Antonia Saval
Dhruvin Shah
Yefrat Sharipov
Poorva Shiva Kumar
Ahsan Siddiqui
Aman Kumar Singh
Gwendolyn Snapp
Kylee Nichole Snider
Soujanya Srinivasan
Edolia Stroud
Randolph Glenn Summiel
Isabel Symington Caxide
Juan David Tarud
Travis Nevin Tendler
David Terrazas
Priyank Thakkar
Janna Thompson
Maeve Thompson Osgood
Tihomir Todorov
Marisol Torre
Nghi “Tina” Tran Nguyen Hoang
Jennifer Trevino Belmonte
Elan Vega
Julia A. Velasquez
Rui Wang
Lushan Wang
Yuan Wang
Yiting Wang
Zhen Wei
Connor Williams
Eddie Lee Wollrabe
Vivian Wu
Liang Xiyuan
Handi Xu
Jin Yan
Pauline Yang
Wencheng Yang
Ruiguang Yang
Shuang Yang
Mingzhu Ye
Ruliang Yuan
Egor Zdorovyak
Zeyu Zhang
Yuchen Zhang
Zheyuan Zhao
Yingzheng Zhong
Shiyao Zhou
Junbai Zhou