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ILBF Funding Decisions Announced
09 Mar 2009 :
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Stirling Film & Television Productions, Omas Media and Ronin Films are among the recipients of the latest funding decisions by the Irish Language Broadcast Fund.

Supported by Northern Ireland Screen, the ILBF has awarded funding to a range of genres including archive documentary series, drama and factual entertainment series. The fund consists of £3m per annum with funding provided by DCAL (Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure). The ILBF funds at least 75 hours of Irish language output per annum which is broadcast on TG4, BBC NI and RTÉ.

Among the recipients are Stirling Film & Television Productions who have been awarded funding to produce a third series of youth drama ‘Seacht’ and for the returning factual entertainment series ‘Faoi Lán Cheoil’ which will air on TG4. This series sees well known musicians getting teamed up with professional musicians with the challenge of learning a traditional instrument from scratch.

The ILBF are also funding an archive documentary series from Omas Media - ‘Amharc Aneas’. The four part archive series will mix old Gael Linn cinema newsreels from 1959 to 1964 with interviews and personal recollections from people who lived through the time. The series will air on both TG4 and BBC NI.

‘Charles Byrne’ is a docu-drama being produced by Ronin Films. Airing on BBC NI, this programme tells the tragic story of Charles O’Byrne, an 8ft tall Tyrone man who displayed himself in the 1700’s to the London public as an Irish giant. The programme will feature the Tyrone dialect and interviews with historians and scientists who specialise in the study of gigantism.

As part of the fund two trainee producers are currently spending a year’s placement with established Belfast production companies. Damian McCann, who is working with Tobar Productions, has received funding for a single documentary ‘Pasáiste na Pictiúrlainne’ which looks nostalgically at the iconic role that cinema has played in Irish lives. The series is being supported on TG4 and BBC NI.

The second producer Pól Penrose, based with Stirling Film & Television Productions, has been awarded funding for “The Rosary and Me”, a documentary which will find him returning to his roots to find out about the importance of the Rosary in his family and in Irish society. TG4 and BBC NI have also supported this programme.

Development funding has also been awarded to MGTV for the development of a web based Irish language learning course entitled irishofcourse.com. In conjunction with University of Ulster Coleraine, the language learning platform will include a social networking site and specially designed Irish language courses and final UUC accreditations.

In addition to its television funding, the ILBF will over the coming weeks and months be researching the possibilities around funding of Irish language radio programmes with a view to adding the funding of radio to its current remit of funding Irish language moving image. If funding does go ahead for radio it is envisaged that this will increase the number and range of quality Irish language radio programmes currently available on radio stations throughout Northern Ireland.



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