Purpose:The CLS Program provides fully-funded seven to ten week group-based intensive language instruction and extensive cultural enrichment experiences held overseas at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (beginning not offered for Azerbaijani, Chinese, Persian or Russian) for U.S. citizen undergraduate, Master’s and Ph.D. students.

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Fotokem Labs is offering an award for graduate students, given each semester, which will be juried through the SF State Cinema Department. The recipient of this award will have all of his or her lab costs covered by Fotokem.

Purpose
Gordon “Don” Thomas, animator and filmmaker, earned the first Master of Fine Arts in Cinema, with an Animation emphasis, at San Francisco State University in June of 2001. He designed his own program concentrating in 2D and 3D computer animation and 3D stop motion. Don was also an instructor at SF State teaching beginning and advanced animation classes. With this scholarship, Don’s family and friends seek to honor Don’s memory and promote his values: creativity, diligence, inspiration to others, and celebration of human diversity. In addition, the scholarship is intended to promote Don’s commitment to learning, his love for teaching and his belief that we need to hear each other’s voices to make a difference.

Purpose: In memory of Robin Eickman, director of the San Francisco Film and Video Commission (1989-1998), SF State alumna and friend of the Cinema Department. The award is intended to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers as professional filmmakers and to provide support to individuals who may be underrepresented in the film industry. Each year, it is presented to a cinema grad student or senior undergrad student whose creative work shows great potential in one of the following categories: Cinematography/lighting, sound recording/mixing, special visual effects, art direction/set design, other (to be designated by applicant).

Purpose: Leo Diner was an important inventor, filmmaker and businessman in the Bay Area film community who dedicated half a century to the motion picture and television industry. In 1991, his family established a memorial scholarship in his honor to encourage future generations of filmmakers to continue to invent and construct new cinematic tools and new ways of seeing.

Purpose: The Princess Grace Award is a competitive scholarship offered each year to undergraduate and a graduate students for work on their THESIS or final (undergrad) film.

Purpose: To encourage creative filmmaking in the experimental and documentary areas.

Purpose: The Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowships in the Fine Arts and the Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Bourdeaux Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts are multiple awards available to Bay Area fine arts MFA students to underwrite tuition for continued academic study.

Purpose: An annual scholarship for tuition assistance to reentry students with financial need whose education has been interrupted by circumstances beyond their control and who now have resumed those studies.

Purpose: Since 1961 the Davis-Putter Fund has provided need-based grants to students who are able to do academic work at the college level and are involved in building movements for social and economic justice. Grantees are both graduates and undergraduates enrolled in accredited schools for the period covered by their grant. Although citizenship is not a consideration, applicants must live in the United States and plan to enroll an accredited program in the US in order to qualify.