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For the second year in a row, an FSU Film School student has won a lucrative Princess Grace Award. The Princess Grace Foundation—created in honor of the late Princess Grace to support young artists in the areas of film, dance and theater—awarded MFA student Iman Zawahry $20,000 to help her make a short film about a Muslim American undercover detective. Zawahry has recently finished production on the film, a Directed Independent Study (DIS) project that she shot here at FSU.

In "Rundown," a 2006 MFA thesis project, a local TV news reporter looking for her big break causes a serious accident that she then has to report on the evening news broadcast. Her situation gives new meaning to the idea of covering the news.

An MFA Directing 3 project, "The Wall" is a glimpse into the life of Bernard, a New York City Cellist who, after years of struggling against unbearable guilt, finds little solace in the world, save for his music. As Bernard’s fate hangs in the balance, a woman moves next door who shares not only his passion for music but is herself no stranger to tragedy.

An MFA Directing 3 project, "Tough Crowd" is about Jihad, a young Muslim American college student who is following her dream of becoming a comedian, despite her family's lack of support. Can she win them over when she displays her talent at a multicultural fest?

An MFA thesis project, "My Four Inch Precious" was one of the first Film School films to use the new RED cameras. It was also the first digital-capture film to ever win a prize from the American Society of Cinematographers. It's a playful story about a lonely garbage collector who falls in love with a woman who is quite a bit smaller.