The Irish Film Board have announced the results for their short film funding schemes Short Shorts and Frameworks. A total of 11 new live action and animation projects have been greenlit for production.
The Short Shorts scheme provides funding for up to seven 3-5 minute films and aims to encourage the making of short films that are innovative, provocative or in some way risky and rule-breaking. Previous winners include IFTA nominated ‘Headspace’ by Patrick Semple and Ian Power’s ‘Dental Breakdown’. This year’s theme was food and the successful projects are:
- ‘Bird Food’ to be written and directed by Richard Keane. It will be produced by Laura Roche for Brown Bag Films, the two time Oscar nominated animation production company.
- ‘Pet Hate’ to be written and directed by Andy Clarke and produced by Sean McGrath.
- ‘Brown Bread’ to be written by Matt Roche, directed by Luke McManus and produced by Annemarie Naughton. Annemarie previously produced the short films The Wednesdays and Atlantic.
- ‘Barry's Bespoke Bakery’ to be written and directed by Denis McCardle and produced by Ben Keenan for Songway Films.
- ‘Seagull Wants to Fish’ to be written and directed Teemu Auersalo and produced by Nicky Gogan and Still Films, the same team behind the Frameworks short ‘Trolley Boy’.
- ‘The Tree’ to be written and directed by David Freyne and produced by Rachael O'Kane for Tilted Pictures. David and Rachael previously worked together on the two shorts ‘The Man in 301’ and ‘The Mill’.
- ‘Juste un Peu Plus’ to be written and directed by Conor Ferguson, produced by Ailish Bracken and Blinder Films, with Katie Holly as Executive Producer. Conor also directed the award-winning ‘The Wednesdays’ and ‘Atlantic’.
Frameworks is now in its 16th year and is dedicated to the production of short animated films. Previous Framework success stories include Oscar nominated Brown Bag Film’s ‘Give Up Your Aul Sins’ and ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ and Kealan O’Rourke’s Galway Film Fleadh winning ‘The Boy Who Lived in a Bubble’.
Successful Frameworks projects announced in the recent results are:
- ‘Coda’ to be written and directed by Alan Holly and produced by Ciaran Deeney for And Maps and Plans. Alan previously directed the Frameworks project ‘The Red Ball’.
- ‘Trid an Stoirm’ to be written and directed by Fred Burdy and produced by Sean McGrath for Windmill Lane Studios.
- ‘The Nonexistent Thoughts’ to be written and directed by Eoin Duffy with Alan Doherty producing.
- ‘Fear of Flying’ to be written and directed by Conor Finnegan. It will be produced by Brunella Cocchiglia and Lovely Productions who previously produced the short ‘The Invention of the Light Bulb’.
For more information on the Short Shorts and Frameworks scheme, visit www.irishfilmboard.ie
