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.
Amount: The award ranges from $3000- 35000 for production or post-production costs only.
Eligibility:
- To be considered for the award and SFSU nomination, you must submit an application.
- All applicants must be U.S. citizens or have obtained permanent residency status.
- Scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships must be completed in the United States.
- Be a full time student or matriculated but not yet have completed thesis film
- Have completed at least one film as director
- Be the director of the proposed thesis film
- Must plan to work for a significant period of time after graduation
Procedure:
- Each student must turn in THREE COPIES of a 1-2 page TYPED treatment/description of their proposed thesis or senior project. The treatment should include:
- plot description/synopsis
- genre – and your approach to that genre
- stylistic concerns
- significance of project
- Application, found here
- You must submit a VHS tape cued to a sample of a previously completed short film (or DVD). If you have a work-in-progress of your thesis film, please submit this as well.
Drop off or mail applications by 4pm May 8, 2009 to:
Cinema Department
Attention: Sjogren/Princess Grace
1600 Holloway Ave, FA 245
San Francisco, CA 94132
Between mid-May & March, the application is for reference ONLY. Applications & all other materials received during this period will be thrown away
For more information, see the The Princess Grace Foundation website.
All submitted materials become the property of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA and will not be returned. They will provide exceptions for original storyboard sketches. If directors would like original sketches returned, self-addressed packaging with appropriate postage must be included with your submission.
