Celebrated Filmmaker Mois茅s Zamora Selected as 51萝莉 Commencement Speaker
April 18, 2025
Dear Campus Community,
I am excited to announce that our keynote speaker for our 108th Commencement Ceremony will be award-winning writer and filmmaker , who is the visionary behind the global hit 鈥淪elena: The Series鈥� on Netflix.
Zamora is the creator, executive producer and co-showrunner of the show, which won the award for 鈥淏est Dramatic Series鈥� through the .
Commencement, celebrating the achievements of thousands of Chaffey students, will be at Toyota Arena in Ontario on May 22.
Mois茅s Zamora鈥檚 success story serves as an inspiration for us all. The adversities he faced as a child fueled his award-winning storytelling, leading him down a path toward many triumphs in the film industry.
Early in his career, Zamora received the 鈥淏inational Literary Prize for Young Novel Border of Words鈥� for his coming-of-age novel 鈥淪usurros bajo el agua鈥� (鈥淲hispers Under the Water鈥�), written in Spanish.
He has also produced and directed the feature documentary 鈥淵oung+Mexican鈥� (Best Documentary by a Mexican Director, Oaxaca FilmFest).
He has written for the TV series 鈥淎merican Crime,鈥� 鈥淪tar,鈥� and 鈥淪tar Wars: The Bad Batch.鈥� Zamora has sold four TV series and is currently preparing to direct two feature films. A graduate of Brown University, he was born in Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eleven.
We are honored to feature Zamora as our commencement keynote speaker.
Sincerely,
Henry D. Shannon, Ph.D.
Superintendent/President
