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John Michael McDonagh |
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John Michael McDonagh and Octagon Films have been offered a €975,000 production loan from the Irish Film Board (IFB) for his upcoming feature ‘Calvary’.
The film is among a number of feature films, animations and documentaries offered funding in the latest round of IFB funding.
In total more than €3.4m has been offered in production loans by the IFB. The Film Board has also offered more than €300,000 in development loans and nearly €59,000 in distribution funding. The total funding on offer is €3.84m.
John Michael McDonagh was previously given a provisional offer of commitment by the Board in April for the comedy, which stars Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen and Kelly Reilly and is due to shoot in Ireland in September.
Scriptwriter Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’s Diary) and IFTA-winning writer Conor McPherson (The Eclipse) have also been offered €450,000 for ‘Quirke’, the feature film based on John Banville’s crime novels of the same name. Gabriel Byrne will play lead Benjamin Black in the screen adaptation which is set in 1950s Dublin. Dublin’s Element Pictures is backing the production.
Darren and Colin Thornton’s (Two Hearts) debut feature film ’Ten Dates with Mad Mary’ has been given a provisional offer of commitment in the latest IFB funding round following its recent success at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. The feature was the production that earned the most meeting requests at the event in February, and is based on the stage production of the same name by Yasmine Akram.
Element Pictures is on board to produce the screen adaptation which brothers Darren have Colin have wrote. Production is expected to begin in autumn this year, with Ed Guiney of Element producing.
Dieter Auner has also been given a provisional offer of commitment for documentary ‘Circus on the Road’, which is being backed by Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s production company Ikandi Productions. Ní Raghallaigh has just been appointed Chief Executive of Ardmore Studios.
Auner previously worked with Ní Raghallaigh on documentary ‘Off the Beaten Track’, which was nominated for an IFTA Award this year. The documentary followed the changing world of shepherds in Romania.
Steven O’Riordan has been awarded €8,000 in a first stage production loan for his documentary ‘No Limb No Limits’. The film charts the journey of O’Riordan’s sister Joanne as she travels to New York to give the keynote speech at the UN’s International Telecommunication Union, despite being born with no limbs. O’Riordan is directing the documentary with Adrian Devane of 2000AD Productions producing.
Other highlights of the IFB’s latest funding round include ‘The Day I Tried to Live’ which received a €40,000 development loan in the fiction category. Lance Daly (Life’s a Breeze) is directing, while Fastnet Films is behind the production.
Little Hen Television received a development loan for its animation ‘Rykers World’. Cat Little will direct the Izzy Fox-penned script. Treasure Entertainment also received €15,000 in a development loan for ‘Wild’, which has been written and will be directed by Vivienne DeCourcy.
Production Loans
Project |
Director |
Writer |
Production Co |
Funding |
First Draft Loans |
The Internal World |
David O'Reilly |
David O'Reilly & Vernon Chatman |
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€16,000 |
Anglo Republic |
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Eugene O'Brien & Neal Rowland |
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€16,000 |
Tough Love |
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Matthew Roche |
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€12,000 |
Vere Goold |
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Rachel Lysaght & Glenn Montgomery |
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€16,000 |
The Boys |
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Virginia Gilbert |
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€12,000 |
Bloom |
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Barbara Deignan |
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€12,000 |
Fiction Development Loans |
Wild |
Vivienne DeCourcy |
Vivienne DeCourcy |
Treasure Entertainment |
€15,000 |
Traders |
Peter Murphy & Rachael Moriarty |
Peter Murphy & Rachael Moriarty |
Coco Television |
€13,000 |
Ten Dates For Mad Mary |
Darren Thornton |
Darren Thornton & Colin Thornton |
Element Pictures |
€10,000 |
Blue City |
Rebecca Daly |
Rebecca Daly & Glenn Montgomery |
Fastnet Films |
€25,000 |
Nineteen Days And Counting |
Kirsten Sheridan |
Anne Marie McCormack |
Black Sheep Productions |
17,500 |
A Month In The Country |
Jonathan Kent |
John Banville |
Treasure Entertainment |
€20,000 |
The Day I Tried To Live |
Lance Daly |
Lance Daly |
Fastnet Films |
€40,000 |
The Zone |
David Gleeson |
David Gleeson |
Wide Eye Films |
€22,500 |
Honoured |
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Jasmina Kallay |
Ripple World Pictures |
€15,000 |
Scumbot |
James Cotter |
Ciaran Foy |
Black Sheep Productions |
€15,000 |
Animation Development Loans |
The H Files |
Tom Caulfield |
Hugh Travers |
Paper Dreams |
€25,000 |
Rykers World |
Cat Little |
Cat Little & Izzy Fox |
Little Hen Television |
€16,000 |
Development Loans
Project |
Director |
Writer |
Production Co |
Funding |
Fiction Feature Films |
Ten Dates With Mad Mary |
Darren Thornton |
Darren Thornton & Colin Thornton |
Element Pictures |
Provisional Offer |
Calvary |
John Michael McDonagh |
John Michael McDonagh |
Octagon Films |
€975,000 |
Quirke |
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Andrew Davies & Conor McPherson |
Element Pictures |
€450,000 |
The Cherry Tree |
David Keating |
Brendan McCarthy |
Fantastic Films |
Provisional Offer |
Creeping Zero |
Billy O'Brien |
Jeff Noon |
Grand Pictures |
€300,000 |
The Price of Desire |
Mary McGuckian |
Mary McGuckian |
EG Film Productions |
€300,000 |
Fiction Creative Co-Production |
Brand New You |
Simon Pummell |
Simon Pummell |
SP Films |
€150,000 |
Food Guide to Love |
Teresa De Pelegri & Dominic Harari |
Teresa De Pelegri, Dominic Harari & Eugene O'Brien |
Parallel Film Productions |
€275,000 |
A Thousand Times Goodnight |
Erik Poppe |
Erik Poppe |
Newgrange Pictures |
€300,000 |
Animation |
Wildernuts |
Andrew Kavanagh |
Andrew Kavanagh |
Kavaleer Productions |
€250,000 |
Documentary |
Three Men Go To War |
Kim Bartley |
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Crossing The Line Films |
€85,000 |
Waking |
Morag Tinto |
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Soho Moon Pictures |
€90,000 |
Sparlo |
Keith O'Shea |
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Crow Hill Films |
€25,000 |
Hill Street |
JJ Rolffe |
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Warrior Films |
€15,000 |
Circus On The Road |
Dieter Auner |
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Ikandi Productions |
Provisional Offer |
Tied Up In Silk |
Pat Murphy |
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Soho Moon Pictures |
Provisional Offer |
Way Out |
Gerard Mannix Flynn |
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Farcry Productions |
Provisional Offer |
Absolute Derby |
Laura McGann |
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True Films |
€90,000 |
In the Name Of Dignity |
Loic Jourdain |
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South Wind Blows |
€40,000 |
Completion Fund |
Me & Me Dad |
Katrine Boorman |
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Merlin Films |
€25,000 |
The Good Man |
Phil Harrison |
Phil Harrison |
Treasure Entertainment |
€26,000 |
Pilgrim Hill |
Gerard Barrett |
Gerard Barrett |
Nine Entertainment |
€15,000 |
First Stage Documentary |
Memphis Project |
Ian Palmer |
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Seafield Productions |
€10,000 |
No Limbs, No Limits |
Steven O'Riordan |
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2000AD Productions |
€8,000 |
Pussycat Wars |
John Murray |
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Crossing The Line Films |
€10,000 |
The Last Taboo |
Tom Roberts |
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Soho Moon Pictures |
€10,000 |
Rex Ingram |
Andrew Legge |
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Underground Films |
€15,000 |
Distribution Loans
Project |
Director |
Writer |
Production Co |
Funding |
Print Provision |
Dreaming The Quiet Man |
Sé Merry Doyle |
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Loopline Films |
€3,500 |
Marketing Support |
Dreaming The Quiet Man |
Sé Merry Doyle |
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Element Distribution |
€17,235 |
Silence |
Pat Collins |
Pat Collins, Sharon Woolley & Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride |
Element Distribution |
€18,225 |
Direct Distribution |
Barbaric Genius |
Paul Duane |
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Screenworks |
€7,235 |
My Brothers |
Paul Fraser |
Will Collins |
Treasure Entertainment |
€12,500 |
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