2024 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: Pepi Ginsberg, Princess Grace Award winner (Film 2021)
Wendy Ferguson Film Honor
Additional Grants:
2026 Princess Grace Artist Fellowship
Ifeyinwa Arinze is a filmmaker from Nigeria, based in New York. Named a 2025 Berlinale Talent, her latest short film, Breastmilk, an adaptation, premiered at the 2025 Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival. It went on to win the Jury Award for Student Short at Aspen Shortsfest and Best Student U.S. Short at Palm Springs.
Ifeyinwa is currently developing her debut feature film, Scruples, which was selected for 2025 Berlinale Talents Script Station and the 2025 Locarno Residency where it received the Grand Jury Prize. She holds an MFA in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a 2024 Princess Grace Award winner.
Photo Credits:
Photo by Rashad Frett
Photo by Essien Goodswill David
Photo by Chheangkea