ireland MEdiA results 2014-2015
introduction Imagine. Create. Share. Creative Europe is the European Union Programme for the cultural and creative sectors. Over a seven year period (2014-2020) the EU will invest 1.46 billion in the audiovisual and culture sectors. The Culture Sub-Programme of Creative Europe provides funding to organisations in the arts, craft, design and heritage fields to work across Europe, to reach new audiences and to develop skills needed in the digital age. The MEDIA Sub-Programme of Creative Europe supports European film and audiovisual industries in the development, distribution and promotion of their projects. It also offers opportunities to develop skills in traditional and new media technologies as well as supporting European companies in targeting markets and networks within and beyond European borders. In 2016 Creative Europe MEDIA will celebrate 25 years of supporting the European Film and Television industries. Ireland has been an active participant in the MEDIA Programme/Creative Europe MEDIA from the beginning securing inward investment of: 6 million in MEDIA 1 (1990-1995) 8.2 million in MEDIA 2 (1996-2000) 9.5 million in MEDIA Plus (2001-2006) 11 million in MEDIA 2007 (2007-2013) * 3.66 million in Creative Europe MEDIA (2014-2020) (Confirmed results as of December 1 2015) CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA in IRELAND 2014-2015: Total 3,664,187 Single Projects: 753,000 Market Access Support: 104,750 Slate Funding: 1,836,048 Distribution Automatic: 26,423 Video Games: 170,000 Distribution Selective: 17,000 TV Programming: 156,995 Training: 540,000 Audience Development: 59,971
creative europe desk ireland media Creative Europe Desk Ireland comprises of three offices representing the MEDIA and Culture sub-programmes - the co-ordinator of Creative Europe Desk Ireland is The Irish Film Board. The information office for the Culture Sub-programme is based in the Irish Arts Council and MEDIA has two specialist MEDIA information offices, one based in Dublin and one in Galway. The MEDIA offices offer comprehensive information on the European Union s Creative Europe Programme and specifically the MEDIA subprogramme. We provide advice, support and information on Creative Europe funding support for the audiovisual industries including film, television and video games. You can meet with us in one-to-one advice sessions or by coming along to the events we organise throughout the year. We are also available to respond to any queries you have about the programme over the phone and on email. The Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Office Galway serves as a regional MEDIA office and also has a remit to provide information and services as Gaeilge to the growing Irish language audio-visual community. For more information, check out the Creative Europe Desk Ireland website, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us through social media. The role of the Creative Europe Desk ireland is to: > > Ensure the promotion of the Creative Europe Programme > > Facilitate the participation in the Creative Europe Programme of the widest number of creative professionals and companies. > > Provide information on the Creative Europe Programme In the MEDIA Offices we see our most important tasks as: > > Ensuring increased professionalism and internationalisation of our audiovisual industries > > Advising on financing and funding and training in other countries supported by the MEDIA sub-programme > > Assisting applicants in the application process > > Organising events that will help the Film, TV, Animation and Game industries acquire the most recent information on networks, partners and financing
SUPPORT FOR PRODUCERS Development The Creative Europe programme provides opportunities for film producers to develop European Audiovisual works with a potential to circulate in the European Union beyond, and to facilitate European and international cooperation. Development opportunities, whether for single projects or a slate of 3-5 projects, aim to support animation, creative documentary, and fiction projects for cinema release, television broadcasting, or digital distribution. Development Slate Funding This scheme is for independent European production companies, established for at least 36 months, with an International track record who have recently produced an internationally distributed project and wish to develop a slate of projects (3-5) with international potential for cinema, television or a digital platform for which they own the majority of rights. Year Company Genre 2014 Samson Films Feature Drama / TV Drama 2014 Fastnet Films Feature Drama / Doc 2014 Subotica Ltd Feature Drama 2014 Cartoon Saloon Animation 2014 Telegael Teoranta Animation / TV Drama Peckles, Jam Media 2014 Kavaleer Animation 2014 Crossing the Line Documentary 2014 Brown Bag Animation Series 2014 Treasure Feature Drama 2015 Element Pictures Feature Drama 2015 Jam Media Animation Viva, Treasure Films Total 2014: 1,836,048
Development Single Project Support This scheme is for independent European production companies (established for at least 12 months) with at least one recently distributed project who wish to develop a new project with international potential for cinema, television or a digital platform for which they own the majority of rights. Butterfly City, Planet Korda Year Company Project Title Genre 2014 Soilsiú Teoranta In Loco Parentis Documentary 2014 Magamedia Teoranta Leaning into the wind Documentary 2014 Planet Korda Butterfly City Documentary 2014 Screenworks Ltd Undercard Fiction 2014 Zanita Associates Ltd The Blue Flower Fiction 2014 Aliceway Ltd Rare Earth Fiction 2014 Savage Productions Why the Dogs had to Die Fiction 2014 Grand Pictures D (aka Deadpan) Breakfast at the New Yorker Fiction 2014 CR Entertainment (Beactive Int) Get Happy Fiction 2014 Fantastic Film Ltd Sea Fever Fiction 2014 Newgrange Pictures Ltd Playdate Fiction 2015 Igloo Films Ltd The Boy in the Bubble Animation 2015 El Zorrero Films Going Viral Documentary 2015 Blacksheep The End of Romance Drama 2015 Fantastic Film Ltd Vivarium Drama 2015 Footnote Productions The Traveller s Daughter Drama 2015 Whackala Slow Documentary Total 2014: 735,000
SUPPORT FOR PRODUCERS Development Video Games This scheme is for companies who have produced at least one recently published video game who wish to invest in the development of a new video game concept or prototype. This scheme supports European independent video games companies with proven experience who want to develop up to an alpha or beta version of a narrative-led video game. Year Company Project Title 2014 Story Toys Ltd CLIKS 2015 Tribal City Interactive Ltd Runes of Aran Total 2015: 170,000 Television Programming Support This scheme is aimed at independent European production companies who wish to receive support to produce fiction, creative documentaries or animated films involving no less than three broadcasters in different member states of the European Union. The TV Programming scheme aims to help European independent production companies produce television programmes with the potential to circulate within the European Union and beyond. Year Company Project Title 2014 Wiggley Woo The Day Henry Met 2015 Planet Korda Butterfly City Total 2010: 156,995 The Day Henry Met, Wiggley Woo Productions
TRAINING Training Support scheme The MEDIA Sub-programme Training scheme supports activities aimed at increasing the skills and networking capabilities of professionals in the audio-visual sector. This scheme offers grants to training providers with the aim of helping providers deliver vocational training activities. Activities may take the form of workshops and/or online coaching sessions and dissemination tools by using proven or testing new learning, teaching and coaching methods and best practice dissemination. Training Courses Creative Europe MEDIA supports more than 60 high-level pan-european Training initiatives each year. Since the beginning of the Creative Europe Programme, many Irish professionals have participated in these courses with at least 20 participants benefiting from the Bursary Scheme that Screen Training Ireland provides towards the costs of attending. These include programmes from Training providers such as EAVE, Erich Pommer Institute, La Femis, Eurodoc and Media Business School among others. In Ireland, Screen Training Ireland has received 540,000 from Creative Europe for their training programmes, Screen Leaders and VFX: Script to Screen. The full list of Training Programmes supported may be found in the Interactive Training and Networks Guide available at www.creative-europemedia.eu VFX: Script to Screen, Screen Training Ireland
Cinema Distribution DISTRIBUTION The MEDIA Sub-Programme of Creative Europe supports the distribution and broadcasting of audiovisual works (fiction, documentary, animation, interactive programmes) and of European films on-line, in movie theatres and on television. Financial support is available to European Cinema distributors for the distribution of non-national European films under two support mechanisms: 1. Selective Scheme. Irish distribution companies have also received funding to distribute non-national European Films. Since 2014, Access Cinema have received 17,000. 2. Automatic Scheme. The aim of the automatic support scheme is to encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds to Distributors, based upon their performance on the market, for further investment in new non national European films. The scheme also aims to encourage the development of links between the production and distribution sectors thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films and the competitiveness of European companies. In 2014, Curzon Film World and Soda Pictures received a total of 26,423. Online Distribution The MEDIA Sub-Programme of Creative Europe aims to support Online Distribution of European audiovisual works and to promote new distribution methods and business models. In particular the scheme aims to support online digital packages and innovative multi-platform releases for European films.
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT One of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme is to support audience development as a means of stimulating interest in and improving access to European audiovisual works in particular through promotion, events, film literacy and festivals. The Audience Development support scheme includes two actions: 1. Film Literacy. Support is available for projects providing mechanisms for better cooperation between film literacy initiatives in Europe with the aim to improve the efficiency and European dimension of these initiatives. 2. Audience Development Events. Support is available for audience development events focusing on innovative and participatory strategies reaching out to wider, especially young, audiences with European Films. Priority will be given to projects demonstrating geographical diversity in the films presented and the initiatives participating in particular those coming from countries with a low A/V production capacity. In 2014, Cinemobile (Fís na Mílaoise Teo) received 59,960 for their project North by Northwest Films on the Fringe in which they have partnered with organisations in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Scotland to bring the best of European Cinema to outlying regions inn these territories. The Irish Film Institute are also a minority partner in the European Framework for Film Education project with British Film Institute Royal Charter which received 69,396.
FESTIVALS / MARKETS Film Festivals Every year the MEDIA Sub-programme supports more than a hundred European festivals notable for their particularly rich and varied programme of European films, their efforts to engage with the general public and their activities involving professionals in large numbers. This scheme supports a number of film festivals throughout Europe that promote European cinema. One of its priorities is to support audience development as a means of stimulating interest in and improving access to European audiovisual works. Applications for festival support must include Audience Development initiatives, in particular initiatives aimed at young audiences. Access to Markets The Access to Markets scheme supports organisations that propose events and activities designed to promote European Audiovisual works and facilitate access to markets for Professionals. Galway Film Fair has received funding totalling 104,750 in Creative Europe so far. Creative Europe MEDIA provides an umbrella stand for European professionals at major audiovisual markets such as MIP TV, MIPCOM, the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlinale. Activities taking place in and outside of countries participating in the MEDIA sub-programme may be supported. Visit Media-Stands.eu for information on MEDIA stands at upcoming markets. Creative Europe directly supports special interest and thematic markets such as the Documentary Forum, the CARTOON Forum and smaller niche markets such as the Galway Film Fair and Documentary seminars coordinated by the European Documentary Network. Creative Europe also supports database and online tools such as Cineuropa.
co-production funds co-production funds Creative Europe supports organisations that help European and international co-production partners to meet or provide them with access to international co-production funds. Current beneficiaries are Torino Film Lab World Production & Distribution Fund, World Cinema Fund Europe, IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, HBF+ Europe, ACM Distribution EXhiBition EuroPA cinemas Supported by the MEDIA Programme, Europa Cinemas is a film theatre network whose objective is to provide operational and financial support to cinemas that commit themselves to screen a significant number of European non-national films. In Ireland, Access Cinema, Irish Film Institute and Cinemobile are all members of Europa Cinemas.
contact details Creative Europe Desk Ireland - MEDIA Office Dublin Callaghan House 13-16 Dame St. Dublin 2 Orla Clancy Tel: +353 1 6791856 orla@creativeeuropeireland.eu Creative Europe Desk Ireland - MEDIA Office Galway Cluain Mhuire Monivea Road Galway Eibhlín Ní Mhunghaile Tel: +353 91 770728 eibhlin@creativeeuropeireland.eu Údarás na Gaeltachta Facebook: Creative Europe Desk Ireland MEDIA Office Twitter: @CEDIrelandMEDIA Creative Europe Desk Ireland - Culture Office The Arts Council 70 Merrion Square Dublin 2 Audrey Keane, Katie Lowry Tel: +353 1 6180200 cedculture@artscouncil.ie www.creativeeuropeireland.eu