Screen Ireland has announced the 2025 call for applications to the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme, which enables Irish and international organisations to provide skills development opportunities and initiatives to the Irish screen sector.
The Scheme is open to Irish and international organisations and guilds that support the screen sector in Ireland and enables them to apply for funding to deliver skills related activities across a 6–12-month period. Successful applicants will be assigned a project manager/advisor from the Screen Ireland skills team to oversee the successful delivery of the funded projects.
Applicants can apply for a range of activities including courses, events, masterclasses, workshops, seminars, webinars, conferences, panel discussions, networking events, mentoring, shadowing, writers room opportunities, consultancy support, data gathering, research reports, and the provision of initiatives that support access to the screen sector. The Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme awards funding under two strands.
Strand 1: Up to a maximum of €30,000 to stakeholders to deliver a range of activities that support the screen sector in Ireland over a 6–12-month period.
Strand 2: Up to a maximum of €60,000 to stakeholders to develop and deliver one high quality, substantial skills development programme that would likely have a significant impact on the screen sector in Ireland over a 6–12-month period.
For the 2025 Stakeholders funding call, Screen Ireland would like applicants to address at least one of the following priority themes:
- Careers in the Screen Industry for Young People and Transition Year Programmes
- Company/Business Development/Entrepreneurship/Freelancing
- Creative IP and Leveraging IP
- Emerging & Future Technology/Virtual Production/Artificial Intelligence
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Irish Language
- Nationwide/Regional Development
- Skills Gaps Priority Roles (significant skills gaps roles in areas such as Accounts, Assistant Directors, Locations, Intimacy Coordinators, among others as listed in the funding guidelines webpage)
- Sustainability/Green Production
- Sustainable Careers (including improving workplace culture, wellbeing and safety, and workforce retention)
Some notable projects funded from the 2024 round include: Culture and Creative Industries Skillnet for FUTURE EDGE, a programme supporting leaders across the cultural and creative sectors to better understand and implement best practices in Sustainability, Ethical AI & Data Protection and GEDI (Gender, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion); Writers Guild of Ireland for Script Biz, a new business skills development initiative equipping writers with essential legal, financial, and marketing knowledge; IMIRT for the Game Jam Pilot and Incubator Hub in Galway and Dublin; the Irish Society of Cinematographers for a series of workshops to improve the quality and skillset of junior and intermediate level cinematographers through up-skilling workshops; Le Groupe Ouest for the Less is More Boosting Ideas Workshop, a writers’ programme focused on finding and strengthening the real core of an early-stage project; Atticus Education for Screen Careers for Transition Year Students, a programme to encourage young people to pursue a career in the screen industry by teaching them about the sector, and the importance of filmmaking today, and more.
There will be one call for the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme in 2025. The application deadline is Wednesday, 9th April 2025, 1pm.
Click here to for more information about the Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme.
