Successful Frameworks Projects Announced
The Irish Film Board are delighted to announce that the latest successful Frameworks projects have been selected.Frameworks is a short film scheme exclusively for the making of animated short films. It was set up in 1995 with the aim to develop new talent and skills in this area and has since been very successful in stimulating ground-breaking new work from Irish animators.
Previous Frameworks successes include Brown Bag Films' Give Up Your Aul Sins which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category in 2001 and Ding Dong Denny's History of Ireland, which premiered at last years Galway Film Fleadh and picked up the Grand Prix at the Digital Media Awards earlier this year.
The successful projects selected for funding this year combine creative exploration with an ability to appeal to a broad audience.
This years successful projects are:
- Donkey to be written and directed by Louise Bagnall and produced by Niamh O'Donoghue in Barley Films. Barley Films previously produced the award winning short Agriculture Report.
- Monsieur Critique to be written and directed by Teemu Auersalo and produced by Nicky Gogan at Glimpse Digital.
- Twas a Terrible Hard Work to be written and directed by David Quin and produced by Steve Woods in Cel' Division.
- The Polish Language to be written and directed by Alice Lyons and produced by Steve Woods in Cel' Division.
- Guns, Bees and Tadpoles to be written and directed by John McCloskey and produced by Pearse Moore in Raw Nerve Productions. McCloskey and Moore won the second prize for Best Irish Short Animation at the Galway Film Fleadh last year for The Crumblegiant.
- Old Fangs to be written and directed by Adrien Merigeau and produced by Ross Murray in Cartoon Saloon. Cartoon Saloon produce the highly successful animated Skunk Fu! series.
The scheme is funded by the Irish Film Board, RTE and the Arts Council.