Creative Europe Desk Ireland – MEDIA Office has announced two further TV funding awards as well as eight co-development awards that feature Irish companies either as lead applicants or partners. This result represents a doubling of MEDIA co-development funding awards for Irish companies since the 2022 results.
MEDIA’s co-development funding award supports the co-development of fiction, animation, creative documentary for cinema, TV or digital platforms. The Irish companies, partners and projects are detailed below as are some quotes from companies who are delighted with their recent funding success.
“The most recent results show that Irish Film and television companies are continuing to collaborate successfully with companies from across Europe,” said Orla Clancy, MEDIA Office Dublin, commenting on the Irish results. “Through these results alone, we can see co-development partners from France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Italy and Sweden. It is wonderful to see so many Irish beneficiaries as lead partners in the collaborations. This co-development scheme is also a fantastic way for small companies to work on a European level by being a minority partner on a project.”
“We are delighted to see Irish companies benefit from European Co-Development, a more challenging funding application than the previous Single Project Development scheme as European partners are required,” added Eibhlín Ní Mhunghaile from MEDIA Office Galway. “This European collaboration is also evident in the TV & Online funding results which will see Gaeltacht company Telegael co-producing a 26x22’ Animated TV Series with Italy, Luxembourg and Germany; and Irish animation studio, Daily Madness, co-producing a 56x11’ TV Series with Belgium and France.”
€5.8 million has been awarded to Irish companies under the MEDIA strand since the 2021 – 2027 Creative Europe programme started.
Irish Co-development Results 2023
Funded projects with an Irish majority producer:
- John Lennon’s Beatle Island: Utopia Lost, Documentary - Gambit Pictures with French minority partner Zed Zooethnological Documentaries.
- The Olive Bunch, Animation - Daily Madness with minority partners Pixel Giants and Prickly Pear Animation, both from Cyprus.
- Kindred Spirits, Animation - Cartoon Saloon with French minority partner Folivari.
- One Night Only, Feature Drama - Wide Eye Films with German minority partner Egoli Tossell Pictures.
- Sultry Days, Feature Drama - Treehouse Media with minority partners TOP BERLIN Film & TV, Germany; Stowarzyszenie Kraków Film Klaster, Poland.
Funded projects with an Irish minority producer:
- Fish & Chips, Feature Drama - Wildcat Pictures minority producer with majority producer Emma Film Italy and minority producer Lava Films, Poland.
- A Few Miles South, Feature Drama - Stop Gap Films minority producer with majority producer New Europe Productions, Poland.
- Celtic Utopia, Documentary - Plainsong minority producer with majority producer MDEMC Produktion, Sweden.
TV & Online Content Irish Results Update
- Klincus Corteccia (animation) - Telegael Teoranta
- Goat Girl (animation) - Daily Madness
Creative Europe Networking Dinner at the Galway Film Fleadh
More than 190 Producers, Sales Agents, Distributors and Film Fund representatives attended the annual Creative Europe MEDIA Networking Dinner at the 35th Galway Film Fleadh in the Hardiman Hotel Meyrick last week. The Creative Europe MEDIA Networking Dinner marks the start of the Galway Film Fair, the Film market that runs alongside the Festival which has been supported by the EU MEDIA Programme since 1996.
The key-note speaker for the occasion was Eurimages Executive Director Susan Newman Baudais. In her key-note address she spoke about the value of co-production despite its many challenges and opportunities presented by a changing digital landscape.
