The Princess Grace Awards, now in their 20th year, were created shortly after the 1982 death of Princess Grace of Monaco, with the purpose of helping aspiring artists. The Princess Grace Foundation gives grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to aspiring young artists. Awards are given in dance, theater, and film.

Roth Cornet is in her last year at Loyola Marymount, maintaining a 4.0 average as a film major with a minor in Asian-Pacific studies, according to her mother, Debra Mount Cornet, a resident of Island House. She is working as a researcher, writer, and producer for Loyola Productions, Inc., a non-profit Jesuit production company.

Her short film, Chloe, was screened at the Directors Guild of America, and won the "Film Outside the Frame" award. Another film, Muse, was selected by Loyola Marymount for screening on public television in Los Angeles. She's working on a thesis film, Sequence, an exploration of a series of events leading to a death, and producing two short films, Standing in Traffic and The Bold, the Bad, and the Beautiful.