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Development by Category

                      Total split by category and percentage of overall totals
Breakdown of Development Applications Assessed Total Dev. Applications Irish Feature % Animation % Screenplay % Documentary % TV Drama %
Applications received 365 159* 44%(a) 30 8% 61 17% 75** 21% 40 11%
Projects w/ Female Writers 137 59 37%(b) 13 43% 19 31% 29 39% 17 43%
Projects w/ Female Directors 63 19 12% 3 10% 2 3% 25 33% 4 10%
Projects w/ Female Producers 176 92 58% 13 43% 0 0% 30 40% 27 69%
Successful Applications 168 78* 46%(c) 18 60% 15 25% 40** 51% 17 43%
Successful projects w/ Female Writers (as % of successful applications) 73 36 46%(d) 9 50% 6 40% 13 33% 9 53%
Successful projects w/ Female Directors (as % of successful applications) 31 14 18% 1 6% 0 0% 13 33% 3 18%
Successful projects w/ Female Producers (as % of successful applications) 99 46 59% 10 56% 0 0% 30  75% 13 76%

Note: the same project can be included in more than one figure – e.g. if there is a female writer and a female director, it will be included in both ‘Projects w/ Female Writers’ and ‘Projects w/ Female Directors’ lines. Therefore, the totals will not match the category totals.

*includes Additional Development (Feature Film) applications  

**includes Additional Development (Documentary) applications  

(a) Percentage of overall total Development applications assessedby category – i.e. 159 Development applications out of a total of 365 assessed(44%) were for Irish Feature Film Development and Additional Development (Irish Feature Film) funding.  

(b) Percentage of total Irish Feature Film Development and Additional Development (Irish Feature Film) Applications assessedthat had a Female Writer attached – 59 Irish Feature Film Development and Additional Development (Irish Feature Film) Applications out of a total of 159 (37%) had a Female Writer.  

(c) Percentage of total Irish Feature Film Development and Additional Development (Irish Feature Film) Applications assessedthat were successful for Development funding; 77 Irish Feature Film Development and Additional Development (Irish Feature Film) applications out of a total of 159 were successful for funding – i.e. Irish Feature Film Development Applications and Additional Development (Irish Feature Films) have a combined success rate of 77%.  

(d) Percentage of successful Irish Feature Film Development applications with a Female Writer attached – i.e. 37 out of 77 successful Irish Feature Film Development applications (46%) had a Female Writer signed to the project.  

Production by Category

    Total split by category and percentage of overall totals
Breakdown of Production applications assessed Production totals Irish Feature % Anim. Feat. % Anim. TV % Creative Co-Pro. % Doc Feature % Doc Co-Pro. % Doc. Series % TV Drama % Completion Funding %
Applications assessed 163 50 31%(e) 1 0.6% 13 8% 18 11% 33 20% 4 2% 9 6% 16 10% 19 12%
Projects w/ Female Writers 46 15 30%(f) 1 100% 4 31% 7 39% 6 18% 0 0% 3 33% 8 50% 2 11%
Projects w/ Female Directors 42 16 32% 1 100% 6 46% 4 22% 7 21% 1 25% 2 22% 5 31% 0 0%
Projects w/ Female Producers 112 36 72% 1 100% 8 62% 17 94% 19 58% 2 50% 6 66% 14 88% 9 47%
Successful Applications 94 26 52%(g) 1 100% 11 85% 9 50% 15 45% 2 50% 5 56% 14 88% 11 58%
Successful projects w/ Female Writers (as % of successful applications) 28 9 35%(h) 1 100% 4 36% 4 44% 3 20% 0 0% 1 20% 6 43% 0 0%
Successful projects w/ Female Directors (as % of successful applications) 26 9 35% 1 100% 5 45% 2 22% 3 20% 1 50% 1 20% 4 29% 0 0%
Successful projects w/ Female Producers (as % of successful applications) 70 20 77% 1 100% 7 64% 9 100% 11 73% 1 50% 4 80% 12 86% 5 45%

Note: the same project can be included in more than one figure – e.g. if there is a female writer and a female director, it will be included in both ‘Projects w/ Female Writers’ and ‘Projects w/ Female Directors’ lines. Therefore, the totals will not match the category totals. 

(e) Percentage of overall total Production applications assessedby category – i.e. 50 Production applications out of a total of 163 assessed(31%) were for Irish Feature Film Production funding.

(f) Percentage of total Irish Feature Film Production Applications assessedthat had a Female Writer attached – 15 applications out of a total of 50 Irish Feature Film Production Applications assessed(30%) had a Female Writer.

(g) Percentage of total Irish Feature Film Production Applications assessedthat were successful for Production funding – i.e. Irish Feature Film Production Applications have a success rate of 52%.

(h) Percentage of successful Irish Feature Film Production applications with a Female Writer attached – i.e. 9 out of 26 successful Irish Feature Film Production applications (35%) had a Female Writer signed to the project.  

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