Story land votes go live today!

Story land votes go live today!

storylandFor all of those budding filmmakers that applied to storyland for funding this year and got knocked back, you can now see the shorts that got through and vote.

Many egomotion members had submitted ideas to storyland, which is a pilot web-isode scheme run by RTE, some went on to the next round some got knocked back straight away.  It might be interesting to see which films did get the funding so here is a list of all the ones that did…

The ten finalist to have their episodes aired are; ‘Morbid & Sons’ (Moocow Productions); ‘Jenny Was a Friend of Mine’ (Sreenworks); ‘Hardy Bucks’ (Hardy Productions); ‘Happyslapper’ (Screenworks); ‘Sullybags’ (Vico Films); ‘Chez Spuds’ (Igloo Films); ‘Psych Ward (Blinder Films); ‘What Does Joe Know?’ (Fastnet Films); ‘Rental Boys’ (Mixed Bag Media) and ‘Running Low’ (Happy Endings Productions).

Voting opens today at :www.rte.ie/storyland/

Its great to be bitter! Why not give it a go today!

IFB Short Shorts Deadline Announced

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The Irish Film Board have announced the call for submissions for the next round of the Short Shorts scheme with a new deadline of Friday, May 8th, 2009. Successful short films will premiere at the Cork Film Festival in November.

Short Shorts funds up to seven, 3-5 minute films and aims to encourage the making of ultra short films. The scheme was modified last year so that the films have to conform to a particular genre each year.

The theme for this years short films, whether live action or animated is ‘Films with No Dialogue’. Not specifically meaning silent films, films where the soundtrack can contain anything except audible dialogue such as the Mr. Bean television series is a good example of this type of genre. By packaging the shorts together under this specific genre, this will allow the IFB to market the Short Shorts more effectively internationally.

Some recent shorts to be funded by the scheme include Declan Cassidy’s ‘Whatever Turns You On’ which picked up the Best Film awards at the Florence Film Festival in Italy and Filmstock Film Festival in Britain last November; ‘Atlantic’ directed by Conor Ferguson and starring Liam Cunningham which was released in cinemas nationwide in front of the feature film ‘32A’, a

nd the short horror film ‘Shapes’ by Alan Brennan, which was officially selected for the renowned Palm Springs International Film Festival 2008.

more info here

Deadline for Frameworks Scheme Announced by IFB

ifblogo07-fThe deadline for the short animation scheme – Frameworks – co funded by BSÉ/IFB, the Arts Council and RTÉ has been announced for Friday, April 24th.

The Frameworks scheme is provided for the development and making of 6 animated short films per year with a budget of up to €50,000 awarded to each film. Films can be in Irish or English with a maximum duration of 6 minutes

FRAMEWORKS is an established scheme for the making of animated short films which BSÉ/IFB considers to be so successful in stimulating ground-breaking new work from Irish animators that it intends to continue the scheme in its present form.

Projects selected for funding will combine creative exploration with an ability to appeal to a broad audience.

Films may be made in Irish or English.

Parameters of the Scheme
–  Number of films: up to 6 per year

–  Duration: maximum 6 minutes

–  Budget per film: maximum €50,000

–  Format:
–  Origination using any technique or format
–  Delivery on digi-beta
–  Further funding to cover costs of 35mm prints may be
provided where a film obtains a bona fide theatrical
release in Ireland or is invited to a major international
film festival, subject to BSÉ/IFB regulations in force at
the time

Application forms can be downloaded from IFB website www.irishfilmboard.ie.