Overview
- Application Deadline(s): 2nd Dec 2025 at 1 pm
- Who Can Apply?: Producers and Industry Creatives from companies in the creative sector
- Maximum Award: €50,000 to €75,000
- Application Requirements
- Completed application form
- Budget (please use Screen Ireland Development Fund Budget Template downloadable from their website. Please change headings as appropriate)
- Any other supporting notes, visual drafts, reels, prototype blueprints or technical documents
- Key Contact: Animation Ireland applications@animationireland.com
About the Fund
Now in its fifth year, Animation Ireland and Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, , with the support of Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet & Eirmersive is investing €430,000 in funding that will support new innovative, high concept development and immersive storytelling projects within the creative screen industries. This year’s fund aims to encourage experimentation and prototyping, supporting projects across a wide range of genres and formats. The fund continues Screen Ireland’s ambition to highlight Ireland as a centre of excellence in innovation and investing in a diverse range of skills, talent, genres and formats, fuelled by artistry and storytelling. It is designed to allow the sector to explore new opportunities offered by emerging technologies, as well as support the development of IP and new, innovative ways of storytelling.
With the aim of encouraging experimentation and prototyping, Innovation development can include the preparation of new hybrid formats, introduction of new storytelling workflows, extending genre ambitions outside the current workflow, and targeting new areas of artistic and creative endeavour (such as Animation, Gaming & Immersive Technologies and new technologies) which the investment allows.
Producers and Industry Creatives may apply for a grant funding award of up to a maximum of €75,000 in total. The highest level of award will only be considered for applications with potential to raise commercial funding for the next stage of development, and demonstrable potential for sectoral benefit. It is anticipated that the majority of grant awards will be in the €25,000 – €50,000 range.
The final deliverables required will be the proof of concept which will include: a short treatment, visual pitch and prototype/teaser (as appropriate) which highlights the new concept and the innovative path which the applicant has been awarded funding for.
Application Requirements
- Completed application form
- Budget (please use Screen Ireland Development Fund Budget Template downloadable from their website. Please change headings as appropriate.)
- Any other supporting notes, visual drafts, reels, prototype blueprints or technical documents.
Criteria for Assessment
- Cover Section (not marked, for admin and categorisation)
- Application Part 1: (25 Marks)
- 1.1 Problem / Need (5 marks)
- 1.2 Market / Audience (10 marks)
- 1.3 Value Proposition / USP (10 Marks)
- Application Part 2: (25 Marks)
- 2.1 Overview of the Innovative Idea (15 Marks)
- 2.2 Timeline and Deliverables (5 Marks)
- 2.3 Use of Artificial intelligence (not scored)
- 2.4 Business Model (5 Marks)
- Application Part 3: (25 Marks)
- 3.1 Technical feasibility (10 Marks)
- 3.2 Team and Organisational Capacity to Deliver (10 Marks)
- 3.3 Risk and Mitigation (5 Marks)
- Application Part 4: (25 Marks)
How to Apply
Applications should be made via the application form to applications@animationireland.com
Closing date is Tuesday 2nd December 2025, 1pm.
Subject line should state “INNOVATION IN STORYTELLING FUND DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION Round 5”.
No late applications will be accepted.