96 applications have been received for the AFTER ’16 short film initiative, funded by the Irish Film Board to mark the 1916 Easter Rising, with the selection process getting underway soon.
The AFTER ‘16 initiative is the IFB’s cultural contribution to the 1916 Rising centenary commemorations and will fund up to eight short films to commemorate, celebrate and ruminate on 1916 and how the events of Easter Monday and beyond forged the landscape of the following century, inviting filmmakers to give their response to 1916 and the hundred years since.
AFTER ‘16 looks for stories, both fact and fiction, which illuminate, surprise and even provoke on the wide subject of 1916 and what is has left in its wake.
These stories can be contemporary or period, live action or animation and can be projects in both the English and Irish language.
The 96 applications show the great interest and enthusiasm of filmmakers in the subject of the 1916 Rising, with the IFB stating that the topic of women was a particular area of interest amongst filmmakers.
The selected projects should be ready to screen from January 2016.
More details on the AFTER ’16 initiative can be seen here.
