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Lance Daly, Lenny Abrahamson & Ruairí Robinson |
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The Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán Na hEireann have announced latest round of funding decisions. Approximately €3m worth of funding has been offered for the development and production of Irish projects. The results were published on Wednesday, September 7th.
Production funding awarded includes €750,000 to Lance Daly’s latest feature with Fastnet Films ‘Life’s A Breeze’. Lenny Abrahamson, the director behind ‘Garage’ and ‘Adam and Paul’, has been offered €720,000 in production support for ‘What Richard Did’. The script for ‘What Richard Did’ is written by Malcolm Campbell and will be produced by Element Pictures. Other features awarded production funding from the IFB include ‘Life on Mars, written by Clive Dawson and to be directed by Ruairí Robinson, which has been offered €500,000 and Mark O’Connor’s revenge drama/love story ‘Grooskill’ offered €275,000, which is set amongst the secret Travelling community in Ireland.
Documentaries receiving production support include Trevor Birney and Ruth O’Reilly’s ‘Beyond the Endgame’ which has been granted €100,000, Mark Byrne and Robert Dennis' ‘Silent Majority’, Morag Tinto’s ‘The Craic’ and Gary Lennon’s ‘The Doctor’s Sword.’
Currently filming in Belfast with a cast including Richard Dormer (Five Minutes of Heaven), Jodi Whittaker (One Day), Liam Cunningham (Hunger) and Dylan Moran (A Cock and Bull Story), ‘Good Vibrations’ has received €75,000 from the Regional Support Fund. Brendan Muldowney’s ‘Love Eternal’ and Venom Film’s Irish/Polish co-production ‘Sanctuary’ have also each received €120,000 from the Regional Support Fund.
Development Funding in the form of First Draft Loans has been offered to Bridesmaid’s actor Chris O’Dowd’s debut script ‘The Adventures of Super Frank’, which he is co-writing with John O’Dowd. ‘The Adventures of Frank’ has been awarded €16,000. Other first draft loans awarded include €16,000 to Rebecca Daly and Glenn Montgomery’s ‘Margaret’ and €12,000 to Naomi Sheridan’s ‘Sixty Eight’.
Fiction Development Loans were offered to four Parallel Film Projects: ‘Twelve Twenty Three’, ‘Reeling’, ‘Memorabilia’ and ‘Brian Rua’. Fiction Development loans were also given to projects including Brian O’Malley’s ‘Crossing Salween’, Darragh Byrne and Mark Doherty’s ‘The Valentine Gang’.
Support to the development of Animated projects was given to Brown Bag Films for ‘Pillage & Sons’ and to A Man & Ink for ‘The Overcoat’. Jim Sheridan was awarded funding for International Development for a project titled ‘Galway Bay’, with Naomi Sheridan and Mary Pat Kelly on board as writers.
PRODUCITON LOANS
Project |
Director |
Writer |
Production Company |
Funding Award |
Fiction Feature Films |
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Life's A Breeze |
Lance Daly |
Lance Daly |
Fastnet Films |
€750,000 |
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What Richard Did |
Lenny Abrahamson |
Malcolm Campbell |
Element Pictures |
€720,000 |
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Grooskill |
Mark O'Connor |
Mark O'Connor |
Vico Films & Black Sheep Productions |
€275,000 |
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Life On Mars |
Ruairí Robinson |
Clive Dawson |
Fantastic Films |
€500,000 |
Documentary |
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Silent Majority |
Mark Byrne and Robert Dennis |
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Planet Korda Pictures |
€10,000 |
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The Craic |
Morag Tinto |
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Soho Moon Pictures |
€10,000 |
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The Doctor's Sword |
Gary Lennon |
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Gambit Pictures |
€12,000 |
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Icarus 3D |
Joel Conroy |
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Fastnet Films |
Provisional Offer Of Commitment |
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Beyond The Endgame |
Trevor Birney & Ruth O'Reilly |
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Below The Radar |
€100,000 |
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Showrunners |
Des Doyle |
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Black Sheep Productions |
Provisional Offer Of Commitment |
Completion Fund |
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Finding Joy |
Neil Dowling |
Neil Dowling |
True Films |
€15,000 |
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State Of Suspension |
Clare Langan |
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Clare Langan Productions |
€15,000 |
Regional Support Fund |
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Good Vibrations |
Glenn Leyburn & Lisa Barros D'Sa |
Glenn Patterson & Chris Carberry |
Treasure Entertainment |
€75,000 |
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Love Eternal |
Brendan Muldowney |
Brendan Muldowney |
Fastnet Films |
€120,000 |
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Sanctuary |
Norah McGettigan |
Norah McGettigan & Gabriel Vargas Vasquez |
Venom Limited |
€120,000 |
DEVELOPMENT LOANS
Project |
Director |
Writer |
Production Company |
Funding Award |
First Draft Loans |
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The Adventures Of Super Frank |
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Chris O'Dowd & John O'Dowd |
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€16,000 |
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Sixty Eight |
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Naomi Sheridan |
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€12,000 |
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A Key To The Suite |
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Morgan Bushe |
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€12,000 |
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Margaret |
Rebecca Daly |
Rebecca Daly & Glenn Montgomery |
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€16,000 |
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Monsters & Magic |
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Jason Butler & Brendan Butler |
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€16,000 |
Fiction Development Loans |
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The Valentine Gang |
Darragh Byrne |
Mark Doherty & Darragh Byrne |
Ripple World Pictures |
€20,000 |
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Crossing Salween |
Brian O'Malley |
Brian O'Malley |
Nine Rivers Media |
€30,000 |
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Harm's Way |
Cathal Black |
Adam Rynne |
Blinder Films |
€9,000 |
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The Absence Sonata |
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Thomas Martin |
Rainmark Films |
€25,000 |
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Devlin |
Aisling Walsh |
Kate Gartside & Aisling Walsh |
Subotica Limited |
€17,000 |
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Reeling |
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Anne Marie Casey |
Parallel Film Productions |
€15,000 |
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Twelve Twenty Three |
Stuart Townsend |
Eoin McNamee |
Parallel Film Productions |
€20,000 |
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Memorabilia |
John Butler |
Kevin Barry |
Parallel Film Productions |
€9,000 |
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Brian Rua |
Finola Geraghty |
Finola Geraghty |
Parallel Film Productions |
€30,000 |
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Stags |
Declan Recks |
Eugene O'Brien |
Samson Films |
€20,000 |
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Beautiful Noise |
Damien O'Donnell |
Helen Seymour |
Coastguard Films |
€25,000 |
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Big Silver Lining |
Brian Durnin |
Brian Durnin & Mark Doherty |
Red Rage Films |
€16,500 |
Animation Development Loans |
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The Overcoat |
Jeremy Purcell & Hugh O'Connor |
Hugh O'Connor |
A Man & Ink |
€29,000 |
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Pillage & Sons |
Nicky Phelan |
Nicky Phelan |
Brown Bag Films |
€9,000 |
International Development |
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Galway Bay |
Jim Sheridan |
Naomi Sheridan & Mary Pat Kelly |
Hells Kitchen International & Jean Doumanian Productions |
€25,000 |
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