Deadline for IFB Short Shorts scheme announced
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board are delighted to announce a call for submissions for the next round of the Short Shorts scheme. The new deadline for this scheme is Friday, April 18th 2008.The successful scheme, which will fund up to seven, 3-5 minute films aims to encourage the making of ultra short films which are innovative, provocative or in some other way risky and rule-breaking.
In order to update this established scheme, it has been modified so that films now have to conform to a particular genre. This year the shorts, whether live-action or animated, should now ‘tell a story' within the genre of musicals. This does not include, however, music videos. It is hoped that having the shorts packaged together under this specific genre will allow the IFB to market the Short Shorts more effectively.
Films produced under previous Short Shorts schemes that had a successful 2007 include The Blaxorcist, directed by Edward King which won the Espoo Cine Melies d'Argent Best Short Film competition in Finland as well as Teeth, directed by John Kennedy and Ruairi O'Brien which picked up numerous awards at international festivals including Sapporo Festival, Japan, Brest Film Festival and Chicago Irish Film Festival. Teeth was also selected for theatrical distribution by Buena Vista International (Ireland) and screened in front of feature film Hallam Foe in cinemas across Ireland last year.
Films may be made in Irish or English and the successful short films will premiere at the Cork Film Festival in October.