Approximately €3m worth of funding has been granted for the development and production of Irish projects in the latest round of funding by Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán Na hEireann.
The recipients include Lance Daly’s latest feature, Life’s A Breeze (Fastnet Films), which receives €750,000; Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did (Element Pictures) receives €720,000; Ruairí Robinson’s Life on Mars (Fantastic Films) receives €500,000; and Mark O’Connor’s Grooskill receives €275,000 (Vico Films & Black Sheep Productions).
The full list of production funding:
| Project | Director | Writer | Production Company | Funding Award | |
| Fiction Feature Films | |||||
| Life’s A Breeze | Lance Daly | Lance Daly | Fastnet Films | €750,000 | |
| What Richard Did | Lenny Abrahamson | Malcolm Campbell | Element Pictures | €720,000 | |
| Grooskill | Mark O’Connor | Mark O’Connor | Vico Films & Black Sheep Productions | €275,000 | |
| Life On Mars | Ruairí Robinson | Clive Dawson | Fantastic Films | €500,000 | |
| Documentary | |||||
| Silent Majority | Mark Byrne and Robert Dennis | Planet Korda Pictures | €10,000 | ||
| The Craic | Morag Tinto | Soho Moon Pictures | €10,000 | ||
| The Doctor’s Sword | Gary Lennon | Gambit Pictures | €12,000 | ||
| Icarus 3D | Joel Conroy | Fastnet Films | Provisional Offer Of Commitment | ||
| Beyond The Endgame | Trevor Birney & Ruth O’Reilly | Below The Radar | €100,000 | ||
| Showrunners | Des Doyle | Black Sheep Productions | Provisional Offer Of Commitment | ||
| Completion Fund | |||||
| Finding Joy | Neil Dowling | Neil Dowling | True Films | €15,000 | |
| State Of Suspension | Clare Langan | Clare Langan Productions | €15,000 | ||
| Regional Support Fund | |||||
| Good Vibrations | Glenn Leyburn & Lisa Barros D’Sa | Glenn Patterson & Chris Carberry | Treasure Entertainment | €75,000 | |
| Love Eternal | Brendan Muldowney | Brendan Muldowney | Fastnet Films | €120,000 | |
| Sanctuary | Norah McGettigan | Norah McGettigan & Gabriel Vargas Vasquez | Venom Limited | €120,000 | |
DEVELOPMENT LOANS
| Project | Director | Writer | Production Company | Funding Award | |
| First Draft Loans | |||||
| The Adventures Of Super Frank | Chris O’Dowd & John O’Dowd | €16,000 | |||
| Sixty Eight | Naomi Sheridan | €12,000 | |||
| A Key To The Suite | Morgan Bushe | €12,000 | |||
| Margaret | Rebecca Daly | Rebecca Daly & Glenn Montgomery | €16,000 | ||
| Monsters & Magic | Jason Butler & Brendan Butler | €16,000 | |||
| Fiction Development Loans | |||||
| The Valentine Gang | Darragh Byrne | Mark Doherty & Darragh Byrne | Ripple World Pictures | €20,000 | |
| Crossing Salween | Brian O’Malley | Brian O’Malley | Nine Rivers Media | €30,000 | |
| Harm’s Way | Cathal Black | Adam Rynne | Blinder Films | €9,000 | |
| The Absence Sonata | Thomas Martin | Rainmark Films | €25,000 | ||
| Devlin | Aisling Walsh | Kate Gartside & Aisling Walsh | Subotica Limited | €17,000 | |
| Reeling | Anne Marie Casey | Parallel Film Productions | €15,000 | ||
| Twelve Twenty Three | Stuart Townsend | Eoin McNamee | Parallel Film Productions | €20,000 | |
| Memorabilia | John Butler | Kevin Barry | Parallel Film Productions | €9,000 | |
| Brian Rua | Finola Geraghty | Finola Geraghty | Parallel Film Productions | €30,000 | |
| Stags | Declan Recks | Eugene O’Brien | Samson Films | €20,000 | |
| Beautiful Noise | Damien O’Donnell | Helen Seymour | Coastguard Films | €25,000 | |
| Big Silver Lining | Brian Durnin | Brian Durnin & Mark Doherty | Red Rage Films | €16,500 | |
| Animation Development Loans | |||||
| The Overcoat | Jeremy Purcell & Hugh O’Connor | Hugh O’Connor | A Man & Ink | €29,000 | |
| Pillage & Sons | Nicky Phelan | Nicky Phelan | Brown Bag Films | €9,000 | |
| International Development | |||||
| Galway Bay | Jim Sheridan | Naomi Sheridan & Mary Pat Kelly | Hells Kitchen International & Jean Doumanian Productions | €25,000 | |
This list was published on IFTN
