A film student from Rochester Institute of Technology has won a film scholarship from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA—marking the sixth consecutive year an RIT student filmmaker has been recognized as a national standout.
Joey McIntosh, a fourth-year student in RIT’s School of Film and Animation, is among those to be honored Wednesday, Oct. 26, at an awards ceremony in New York City. The Princess Grace Foundation-USA, named in honor of Princess Grace of Monaco, helps aspiring artists pursue their goals in theater, dance and film.
McIntosh is a talented animator with dreams of marketing his senior thesis, a stop motion animation film, Glarg and Fritz, as a pilot for an animated series. Glarg and Fritz is set in the laboratory of a sub-par mad scientist and Glarg and Fritz are two of the scientist’s failed experiments. The Princess Grace Foundation-USA awarded McIntosh a $5,500 grant toward him making the film.
“I know some of the past Princess Grace award winners,” says McIntosh, “and their work is incredible, so for my films to be recognized as comparable to their work is flattering. I’ve met recipients from other universities and their films blew me away. I’m honored to be even included among them.”
McIntosh submitted two films as well as his sketches for his senior thesis film to the Princess Grace Foundation. “I was very impressed with Joey McIntosh’s work, impressed by its technical dexterity, its ingenuity and humor,” says Scott MacDonald, a film scholar and professor who serves on the arts selection panel of the Princess Grace Awards. “I wasn’t surprised to see that McIntosh's work is impressive because after all he comes out of RIT’s remarkable School of Film and Animation.”
Group shot Credit: Jerry Lacay
Joey with the Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winning actor Edie Falco of the Sopranos and fellow film recipients.
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