Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, the national agency for the creative screen sector, is pleased to announce €3.2 million in strategic slate funding. Slate funding is an initiative to help Irish companies develop a slate of projects in-house across feature film, television, animation and documentary. Originally announced earlier this year, this Strategic Slate Development Fund was customised to respond to... Read more...
Life during lockdown has been as busy as ever for Ireland’s animators as they service broadcasters, film companies, and advertising, writes Esther McCarthy For artist Aria Ungerer, life during lockdown and working from home have given her a special opportunity – to focus on a project planned with her late father, Tomi Ungerer. Working from her East Cork home, Aria has... Read more...
Screen Skills Ireland, the skills development unit within Screen Ireland, has announced the 11 organisations and initiatives that have been awarded funds from the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme, worth €200,000, to deliver a wide variety of skills development activities for the Irish screen sector. The scheme was launched in April as part of the overall measures announced by Screen Ireland... Read more...
The Irish Animation industry is booming as studios fill the gap left by live-action films and television production in the lockdown, discovers Pavel Barter… Read the full article here, or download. Source: Pavel Barter, The Sunday Times Culture; The Sunday Times Ireland. 17th May 2020. Read more...
Silk Road International Film Festival (SRIFF) is giving an opportunity to Irish filmmakers to submit an Irish film to screen as part of the The Belt and Road Film Week at Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). Requirements: completed after 01/01/2019, fiction, animation, documentary minimum length 70 mins, mainland China premiere. Silk Road International Film Festival became a partner of The... Read more...