Stephanie Perez, Brian Merrick, Craig Boydston, and Constanza Castro (all Film) recently were accepted into the American Film Institute (AFI) for fall 2013. This, along with last year's acceptances, makes the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ film program the most represented American undergraduate program at AFI. Perez and Merrick will be editing fellows. Boydston will be a cinematography fellow, while Castro will be a producing fellow. At the world-renowned AFI Conservatory, a dedicated group of working professionals from the film and television communities serves as mentors in a hands-on, production-based environment. With an emphasis on narrative visual storytelling and personal expression, each class breaks into teams that mirror a real production environment. Those teams produce more films than any other graduate-level film program. In July 2011, the AFI Conservatory was voted the #1 film school in the world by the Hollywood Reporter. It is ranked in the top five graduate film programs along with USC, UCLA, NYU, and California Institute of the Arts by the Princeton Review and US News and World Report.
