The Creative Futures Slate Fund is now open for applications
Posted: 27th October 2022
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to announce that the Creative Futures Slate Fund is now open for applications. The initiative is designed to support audiovisual companies in building cultural resilience, and enable the development of high-quality, culturally significant projects.
The Creative Futures Slate Fund is open to audiovisual production companies who are developing a slate of narrative projects across film, TV, animation, and documentary and who are looking to expand and build on their creative ambitions, develop talent, target a diverse and expanding creative slate and support their business with the adequate skills and capabilities needed to enable increased opportunity and growth.
The design of the fund is based on 3 strands:
- International Strand – Creative Capability
- Direct Slate Support
- Next Stage Strand – Creative Capability
Developing a slate involves strong creative instincts and capabilities as well as the management of talent and timelines. The Creative Futures Slate Fund is about building in-house creative teams to support this work. It is about enhancing access to expert development capability for project and talent and business development to ensure the longer term creative and cultural expansion of the company. It is also about building a pipeline of projects that can be developed by the creative team in place.
The total fund is €2.5 million and up to 35% will be ring-fenced for companies based in and operating from regions outside Dublin and Wicklow.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday, November 18th, 2022.