Film and Media Arts Scholarships

The Department of Film and Media Arts offers graduate students multiple scholarships, ranging from $500 to $2,000. Awards are typically given annually at the end of the year from several scholarship funds.

Scholarships include the following opportunities.

• The Ben and Minnie Lazaroff Scholarship is awarded annually to a talented student in the screenwriting program who is enrolled in the spring semester to help fund the following school year.
• The Jason Schoenagle ’94 Award Fund was established in 2007 by the family and friends of Jason Schoenagle ’94 to provide awards to academically excellent Film and Media Arts majors with financial need who are studying in the Los Angeles Internship Program.
• The Motion Picture Scholarship Award is an annual award given to Film and Media Arts students who have demonstrated academic achievement and financial need.
• The National Eastman Scholars Program is a nationally competitive award that provides $5,000 to full-time undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate superior ability in cinematography as well as overall academic excellence.
• The National Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship Award is an invitation-only film grant, given to undergraduate or graduate students in their second or last year of study who have completed a film and are working on their student thesis film.

Learn more about scholarship deadlines and application processes.

Fellowship Advising

Information on fellowship-related workshops for current graduate students can be found in the Deadlines and Events section of Scholar Development and Fellowships Advising. Resources for preparing applications can be found under Application Resources.

If you are considering applying for a graduate fellowship, schedule an appointment to meet with the fellowships advisor. You do not need to have a draft prepared; sometimes talking through your ideas is a great starting point.