Princess Grace Foundation
Congratulations to the Grad Film recipients of the 2024 Princess Grace Awards!
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is dedicated to upholding the legacy of Princess Grace of Monaco, Grace Kelly, and elevating extraordinary emerging artists in theater, dance and film through career-advancing grants.
This year, the Princess Grace Foundation recognized 18 Princess Grace Award winners and 11 Honoraria recipients. Click here for the full list.
Ifeyinwa Arinze (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Grad Film)
2024 Princess Grace Award
Wendy Ferguson Film Honor
Ifeyinwa Arinze is a neuroscientist-turned-filmmaker from Nigeria and is currently based in New York City. Her work centers on intimate portrayals of Black women and girls that are grounded in tenderness and care. She has received support from organizations like BAFTA, NYFA, NYWIFT, UnionDocs, Video Consortium and Film at Lincoln Center. Her short films have screened at the New York African Film Festival, Aspen ShortFest, Palm Springs, BlackStar, Urbanworld, Indie Memphis and TIDE Film Festival.
Ifeyinwa is developing her debut feature film SCRUPLES, which was selected for the 2024 Cine Qua Non Script lab and was a 2023 SFFILM RANIN grant finalist. She is also in post-production on her next short film with support from NYU’s Black Family Thesis Prize. Ifeyinwa holds an MFA degree from the NYU Tisch Graduate Film program.
Gustavo René Sanabria (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Grad Film)
2024 Princess Grace Award
Sir Roger Moore Film Honor
Gustavo René Sanabria is a Paraguayan-American filmmaker pursuing an MFA in Film & TV at NYU Tisch. His short films have screened at festivals around the world including Sundance, Slamdance, and SXSW, having won numerous awards and received Academy Award qualifications. As a writer-director, he is inspired by the diasporic experience and the decolonization of cinema. His latest film, SIESTA, just had its World Premiere at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris and is headed to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Most recently, he has received the 2024 Black Family Prize for his thesis film at NYU. Gustavo develops deeply personal projects in hopes of spurring conversation, thoughts, dreams, and above all, connection.