Financial support

The Arts Council offers a wide range of financial supports across artforms and arts practices, including film (as listed below). You can find further information on those supports, direct and indirect, in the financial support section.

 
NameDecision DateMaximum Awarded €Abstract
Travel & training awardOngoing8000There are three strands to this award: Travel and Training Outbound to support individuals who wish to avail of training and other professional development opportunities abroad; Travel and Training Inbound to support individuals or organisations who wish to invite specialists from abroad to deliver high-level training or mentoring; and the CCP International Award which offers support to arts organisations planning to make applications to the EU Culture Programme.
RAISE - The Business of Arts Fundraising 28 June 201330000The RAISE 2013 award consists of professional support for the creation of a fundraising strategy, recruitment and mentoring of a fundraising intern, and funding for the retained fundraising intern, as an entry level fundraiser, for a two-year period.
Annual fundingTo be announcedUnlimitedThe purpose of annual funding is to provide stable and secure funding to certain arts organisations (on an annual basis). Applicants may request a contribution towards both operating and artistic programming costs.
Annual programming grantTo be announcedUnlimitedThe purpose of the annual programming grant is to assist applicants with the costs of their artistic programme. The scheme is not intended to provide support for ongoing operating/administrative costs.
Film project awardTo be announced50000This award supports specific projects in the field of film commencing in 2013.
Regularly funded organisationsTo be announcedUnlimitedThe purpose of this programme is to strengthen and make more secure a group of key arts organisations, by contributing to both their operating and artistic programming costs. This funding programme is not open to general applications. Instead, the Arts Council will invite organisations to participate on the basis of published criteria.
Artist in the community scheme bursary awardClosing date passed10000The arts and disability bursary award, as part of the artist in the community scheme, aims to support an individual professional artist in any artform working in the field of arts and disability.
Circus bursary awardClosing date passed12000 
EU Local Partnership schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedFor project activities and events taking place 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2013 inclusive. To mark Irelands Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this special issue of the Local Partnership Scheme is intended to support Local Authorities and Ealaín na Gaeltachta to develop or carry out innovative collaborative arts projects in co-operation with arts organisations within their localities or regions, and with partners elsewhere in Europe.
Festivals and events schemeClosing date passed20000The Arts Council has introduced a new scheme to support festivals and events. The scheme will be open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals. Events may be one-off projects or programmed over a number of months.
Film bursary awardClosing date passed15000The award supports professional individual artists working in the field of experimental or non narative film making to develop their arts practice.
FrameworksClosing date passed45000Frameworks is an established scheme for the making of animated short films.
Location one fellowshipClosing date passed22500A 5-month fellowship based in New York
Reel Art schemeClosing date passed80000Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme that provides film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.
Splanc! 2011Closing date passed120000TG4 and An Chomhairle Ealaíon/the Arts Council invite submissions for the 7th season of this innovative television documentary scheme that supports the creative exploration of the arts in Ireland.
The Arts Council and RTE film opportunitiesClosing date passed12500In 2012, the Arts Council celebrates the 50th Anniversary of its collection as well as 60 years of supporting the arts. To mark the occasion, the Arts Council and RTÉ will support the making of four short films which respond creatively to the collection. The films will be stand alone pieces of 3 minutes in duration which will be broadcast in RTÉ Television’s weekly arts series, The Works in November and December 2012. Full details available 14 September 2012.
Touring and dissemination - advance planningClosing date passedUnlimitedThe Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and arts practices due to take place in between January 2014 and December 2014.
Touring and dissemination of work schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThis scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines starting between January 2014 to June 2014.
Young ensembles schemeClosing date passed10000The primary purpose of this award is to support groups of young people between the ages of 12 and 23 to create ambitious and original work together in any art form (e.g., circus, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, or any combination of the above).