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.

 
NameClosing DateMaximum Awarded €Abstract
Travel & training award31 December 20128000There 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.
Annual fundingClosing date passedUnlimitedThe 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 grantClosing date passedUnlimitedThe 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.
Artist in the community scheme bursary awardClosing date passed10000The arts and older people 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 older people.
Cinema Digitisation Scheme / Round 2 Closing date passed75000The purpose of the scheme is to help to build and support a national circuit of digitally-enabled arthouse cinema screens in a variety of venues throughout Ireland. The Agencies also wish to encourage partnerships between cinema operators, local authorities, venues, film clubs/societies and film festivals in order to best provide for film audiences in their area.
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.
Film project awardClosing date passed50000This award supports specific projects in the field of film commencing in 2012.
FrameworksClosing date passed50000Frameworks is an established scheme for the making of animated short films.
Location one fellowshipClosing date passed37000A 10-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.
Regularly funded organisationsClosing date passedUnlimitedThe 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.
Small arts festivals schemeClosing date passed20000The Small Arts Festivals scheme is designed in the main to support and provide opportunities for small arts festivals or events seeking funding of up to €20,000.
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.
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 2013 and December 2013.
Touring and dissemination of work schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThis scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in all arts disciplines starting between January 2013 to June 2013.
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).