Scholarships & Funding Resources

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This scholarship is for both undergraduate and graduate students engaged in documentary projects that have a humanitarian focus as their subject. Scholarships of up to $3,000 will be awarded.

• Funds can be used for: 
  • travel
  • living requirements
  • equipment or other incurred expenses related to the project 
• Considerations: 
  • Students must be enrolled for the duration of their project, including the upcoming Fall 2025 semester. 
  • Applicants will be selected based on: 
    • quality of previous work
    • recommendation from faculty 
    • clarity of idea
    • relevance to the mission of the scholarship
    • feasibility of proposed project
    • academic standing
  • Projects that have been developed past the initial idea stage will carry greater weight than others, though all projects will be considered.
  • Priority will be given to projects that fulfill requirements for a degree.
  • Upon completion of the project, grantees must submit the finished work to a faculty committee. 

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Provides funding to support undergraduate and graduate film projects related to their degree requirements in RTF.  Scholarships of up to $1,500 will be awarded.

• Stipends can be used for: 
  • travel
  • living requirements
  • equipment or other incurred expenses related to the project 
• Considerations: 
  • Both Undergraduate and Graduate applications will be considered. 
  • Students must be enrolled for the duration of their project, including the upcoming Fall 2025 semester. 
  • Applicants will be selected based on: 
    • quality of previous work
    • recommendation from faculty 
    • clarity of idea
    • feasibility of proposed project
    • academic standing
    • financial need
    • creative vision
  • Projects that have been developed past the initial idea stage will carry greater weight than others, though all projects will be considered.
  • Priority will be given to projects that fulfill requirements for a degree.
  • Upon completion of the project, grantees must submit the finished work to a faculty committee.  

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Financial support for graduate student projects related to narrative or documentary film work or photojournalism. Grantees shall be selected based on academic merit and creative vision.

• Stipends can be used for:
  • travel
  • living requirements
  • equipment or other incurred expenses related to the project 
• Considerations:
  • Only Graduate students can apply and must be enrolled for the duration of their project, including the upcoming Fall 2025 semester. 
  • Applicants will be selected based on:
    • quality of previous work
    • recommendation from faculty
    • clarity of idea
    • feasibility of proposed project
    • academic standing
    • financial need
    • creative vision
  • Projects that have been developed past the initial idea stage will carry greater weight than others, though all projects will be considered.
  • Priority will be given to projects that fulfill requirements for a degree.
  • Upon completion of the project, grantees must submit the finished work to a faculty committee.  

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Provides $1250 in financial support for undergraduate prospective professional editors. 

• Stipends cannot be used for tuition or fees.
• Instead, financial support can be used for: 
  • professional training
  • purchase of software or equipment  
  • travel support to an approved editing or post-production internship
  • competition application fees and festival submission fees
• Considerations: 
  • Students must be enrolled in the upcoming Fall 2025 semester. 
  • Only undergraduate applications will be considered.
  • Preference will be given to Junior and Senior students with an interest in a career in editing
  • Grantees must be enrolled for the duration of their proposed project and provide receipts for all covered expenses.
  • Completion or current enrollment in RTF 346, Introduction to Editing, is suggested, but not required.
  • Applicants will be selected based on: 
    • quality of sample work provided
    • faculty recommendation
    • clarity and feasibility of the spending plan, and the grant's likely impact on the applicant’s career.
    • academic standing

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Provides $1,000 or $2,000 scholarships to both undergraduate and graduate seeking a degree in RTF, with a focus on writing.  

• Stipends can be used for: 
  • travel
  • living requirements
  • equipment or
  • other incurred expenses related to the project 
• Considerations:
  • Students must be enrolled for the duration of their project, to include the upcoming Fall 2025 semester.
  • Applicants will be selected based on: 
    • quality of previous work
    • recommendation from faculty 
    • clarity of idea
    • feasibility of proposed project
    • academic standing
    • creative vision
  • Projects that have been developed past the initial idea stage will carry greater weight than others, though all projects will be considered.
  • Priority will be given to projects that fulfill requirements for a degree, and for student recipients who have demonstrated financial need and who are studying Radio-Television-Film, with an emphasis in the field of Writing.
  • Upon completion of the project, grantees must submit the finished work to a faculty committee. 

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Provides funds for professional development to students who are concentrating in narrative screenwriting and demonstrate the potential for professional excellence. 
Scholarships for up to $2,000 will be awarded.

RTF celebrates excellence in screenwriting by annually awarding the Robert Foshko Memorial Scholarship. Two students will receive a stipend for professional development.  Open to both graduate and undergraduate students.  Both original television pilots and feature films are eligible. 

The award was renamed in 2017 in honor of longtime RTF screenwriting professor, Robert Foshko. For nearly three decades, two-time Emmy winner Robert Foshko taught screenwriting and television production at UT’s Department of Radio-TV and Film.

During that time, he established RTF’s screenwriting curriculum, launched its graduate writing program, was a founding member of the Michener Center for Writers, and fundamentally advanced the television production curriculum to meet the rigorous and competitive standards of the business and creative practice of television. In so doing, he influenced and guided the education and careers of countless screenwriting and television students along the way.

Bob and his wife Sally established this scholarship to help support the kinds of screenwriting students he taught and mentored so well during his many years of service at the University of Texas at Austin.

Considerations:

• Both Undergraduate and Graduate applications will be considered. 
• Scripts must have been written for an RTF screenwriting course during the 2024 Spring semester or later.
• Only feature-length screenplays and TV pilot scripts qualify. No TV specs will be considered.
• Scripts must not have been previously submitted for past Longhorn Showcase Script Competition or Robert Foshko Memorial Screenwriting Scholarship consideration.
• Winners of previous Longhorn Showcase Script Competitions and Robert Foshko Memorial Screenwriting Scholarship are ineligible.
• Course instructor approval is required.
• One writer may submit multiple scripts; however, each submission requires a separate application.

*Note: In addition to the Bob Foshko Memorial Scholarship in Screenwriting, RTF juniors and seniors who've written a script for an RTF screenwriting course may apply for the Todd Milam Schulze Memorial Scholarship in Screenwriting, administered by the Texas Exes. Please note that the deadline to apply for this scholarship is typically earlier than the RTF department scholarship deadlines.

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There are a number of Texas Exes scholarships available to RTF students, including:

• Los Angeles Chapter Hollywood Seminar Student Filmmaker Scholarship – Deadline: March 1, 2025
• Todd Milam Schulze Memorial Scholarship in Screenwriting – Deadline: March 1, 2025
  (In addition to RTF's Bob Foshko Memorial Scholarship in Screenwriting, RTF juniors and seniors who've written a script for an RTF screenwriting course may apply for this.)

The Semester in Los Angeles (UTLA) Program awards multiple scholarships each semester to RTF majors participating in the UTLA program. Students apply to these scholarships via the same application they use to apply for admission to the UTLA program. 

Listed below are just a few examples of the types of UTLA scholarships available and not an exhaustive list. All scholarships are subject to change in future semesters.

Semester application deadlines are:

• Fall – March 4
• Spring – May 7
• Summer – November 1

Wofford Denius UT in LA Scholarship

For Moody College students (including RTF majors) participating in the UTLA Program. 50% of the awards are based on academic merit and 50% are based on financial need. Multiple awards given each semester.

AWARD: $4,900

Blake Neely Endowed UTLA Scholarship

For Radio-Television-Film majors with financial need participating in the UTLA Program who have an interest in the music industry.

AWARD: Amount varies by semester

Dees Family UTLA Scholarship

For UT-Austin students (including RTF majors) with financial need participating in the UTLA Program. 

AWARD: Amount varies by semester

Every student who applies to UTNY has the option of completing a scholarship essay as part of the application.  Go to APPLY page, which has scholarship information at the bottom. 

Any other funding you may receive (e.g., student scholarships, student worker scholarships, club funding, professional development, career exploration funds, tuition waivers, etc.) can travel with you to New York. So pursue all the funding options you can!