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The deadline for the short animation scheme Frameworks has been announced. Frameworks is a partnership scheme of the Arts Council, the Irish Film Board and RTÉ and is supported by the BAI. It supports the making of animated short films and has been successful in stimulating ground-breaking new work from Irish animators. Projects selected for funding will combine creative exploration with an ability to appeal to a broad audience.

Irish animation has received much international acclaim in recent years and previous Frameworks films have been particularly successful: Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty was nominated for a Best Short Animation Academy Award;  The Rooster, The Crocodile and The Night Sky was nominated for an ASIFA Hollywood Annie Award; and Old Fangs received critical acclaim at the renowned Sundance, Annecy and the London film festivals.

Frameworks films may be made in Irish or English.

For more information on making an application and to download an application form please visit the Funding Programmes section of the website of the Irish Film Board (www.irishfilmboard.ie).

The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, 03 May 2013.

The Arts Council’s three Reel Art films gained particular recognition at this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival:

• Claire Dix’s film Broken Song, about three hip-hop artists from north Dublin, won both the Audience Award and the Michael Dwyer Discovery Award (this from the Dublin Film Critics Circle);
• Mark Mc Loughlin’s film Blood Rising, on Brian Maguire’s work with the families of murdered women in Mexico, was selected to close the festival and is having an impact within the area of human rights as well as film;
• Paul Duane and David Cairns’ Natan, about a forgotten pioneer of French cinema, was very well reviewed and is already garnering international interest.

Each film was totally funded by the Arts Council.

The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) takes place from 14 to 24 February. Supported by the Arts Council, JDIFF is the largest film festival in the country and brings a selection of the best of international and Irish cinema to audiences in Dublin. Over ten days and nights, audiences will have an opportunity to see a diverse range of cinema, engage with festival guests, and participate in Q&As, workshops and discussions. The film festival programme and tickets for all screenings and events are available from www.jdiff.com.

The Arts Council is delighted to be associated with a number of films screening at JDIFF. Premiering at the festival are three films made under the Arts Council's Reel Art scheme which supports film artists to make highly creative documentaries on an artistic theme. The scheme is operated in partnership with Filmbase and JDIFF and each of this year's films takes us on a thought-provoking  journey into three very different worlds:

Natan - Friday, 15 February at 18:10 - IFI

In their film Natan, Paul Duane and David Cairns rediscover and rehabilitate Bernard Natan, a forgotten pioneer of French cinema in the early 20th century.

Broken Song - Tuesday, 19 February at 18:10 - IFI

Claire Dix's film Broken Song provides a unique insight into the world of Git, Costello and Willa Lee - three street poets, hip hop artists and songwriters from north Dublin.

Blood Rising - Sunday, 24 February at 19:30 - Savoy

In Blood Rising, Mark McLoughlin follows the artist Brian Maguire as he works with the families of the victims of femicide in Juarez, Mexico to create portraits of the missing women.

Also, premiering at the festival is James Kelly's Fionnuala: Puipeád Beag ar Turas Mór / Fionnuala: Small Puppet on a Big Journey. This documentary follows Fionnuala,  a puppet from the Branar puppet theatre company, to Germany for her performance in a production of the Children of Lir. This film was made under the Arts Council and TG4's partnership scheme Splanc! which supports the making of creative arts documentaries for broadcast on TG4.

Fionnuala: Puipeád Beag ar Turas Mór - Saturday, 23 February at 13:00 - Cineworld

Within the shorts programme on Wednesday, 20 February at 18:10 in Light House the following Arts Council supported short films appear:

• The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden - Andrew Legge (made with Project funding)
  
• Irish Folk Furniture - Tony Donoghue (made under the Frameworks animation scheme - a partnership between the Arts Council, the Irish Film Board & RTÉ)
  
• Fear of Flying - Conor Finnegan (made under the Frameworks animation scheme - a partnership between the Arts Council, the Irish Film Board & RTÉ)
  
• After You - Damien O’Connor (made under the Frameworks animation scheme - a partnership between the Arts Council, the Irish Film Board & RTÉ)

The Arts Council is celebrating  its 60th anniversary with a series of exhibitions from its collection titled Into the Light: The Arts Council - 60 Years of Supporting the Arts.* To mark this occasion, the Arts Council and RTÉ have supported the making of four short films which respond creatively to the Arts Council collection. The films were broadcast in RTÉ Television’s weekly arts series, The Works, and can now be viewed here as follows:.

• Variations on a Collection
  A creative response to the Arts Council collection and collecting, by James Kelly

•  The Nettle Coat
  Exploring the public's response to Alice Maher's Nettle Coat, by Pat Collins and Sharon Whooley 
  

Nettle Coat from Arts Council on Vimeo.

• A Prevailing Wind
  Celebrating six decades of the arts, by Ian Cudmore, Alan Kavanagh and Donal Dineen.
  

A prevailing wind from Arts Council on Vimeo.

• Reframe
  Following the artist Karl Burke during the development of his new work commissioned for the Into the Light exhibition at Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, by Tadhg O'Sullivan
  

Reframe from Arts Council on Vimeo.

*Into the Light: The Arts Council - 60 Years of Supporting the Arts will run concurrently at the following venues: Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane (from 28 November 2012 to 24 February 2013); Limerick City Gallery of Art (from 30 November 2012 to 18 January 2013); Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (from 4 December 2012 to 23 February 2013); The Model, Sligo (from 7 December 2012 to 24 March 2013).