A number of films that are set to be released later this year received Additional Production funding. The largest receipient was director Lance Daly's Irish famine-set western Black 47 (€85,000), which is produced by Fastnet Films. Alexandra McGuinness' Highway, produced by TW Films and Ripple World, received €65,000, with €50,000 going to Savage Productions for Lee Cronin's rural-horror The Hole in the Ground, and the same amount going to Vico Films for Sophie Hyde' Animals. €40,000 was awarded to both Treasure Entertainment for Hugh O'Conor's Metal Heart and to Samson Films for Mitko Panov's Wait For Me. Warrior Films were awarded €36,000 for Dave Tynan's Dublin Oldschool, with EG Film Productions receiving €34,750 for Mary McGuckian's The Girl From Mogadishu, and €30,000 going to Blue Ink Films for Rob and Ronan Burke's Damo & Ivor: The Movie. Maurice Sweeney's I, Dolours was the smallest receipient with €8,000 for producers New Decade Films.
Completion funding of €15,000 was awarded to Anu Pictures for Dónal Ó Céilleachair's documentary The Camino Voyage, which opens the Dingle International Film Festival and plays at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival in the next two weeks.
Development Funding
44 projects were offered Development funding, 5 animations, 8 documentaries, 6 international TV dramas, 1 international co-production, and 24 feature productions. The largest of these was €42,500 to Parallel Films for Maudie director Aisling Walsh's The Ballroom. Further awards were €25,000 to Treasure Enertainment for Limbo, written by Peter McDonald; €23,700 to Blinder Films for Gavin Scorr Whitfield's Diamonds, written by Eugene O'Brien; €21,450 to Subotica for Damien O'Donnell's The Boy That Never Was, written by Karen Gillece and Paul Perry; €20,500 to Element Pictures for I Found My Tribe, written by Ruth Fitzmaurice; €20,000 to Treasure Enertainment for Crossword, written by Hugh Travers;
€20,000 to Marcie Films for Ciaran Foy's The Shee, written by Foy and Adam Bloom; €18,500 to Underground Films for The Swingout, written by Aoise O' hUiginn; €18,300 to Kennedy Films for Andrew Legge's Ottoline, written by Legge and Islay Bell-Webb; €17,800 to Tilted Pictures for David Freyne's Beards, written by Freyne; €17,800 to Tilted Pictures for The Life And Sort Of Death Of Eric Argyle,written by Ross Dungan; €17,500 to Deadpan Pictures for Mark Lompard's Blind Ambition, written by Ardal O'Hanlon and Mark O'Halloran; €16,000 to Element Pictures for Phyllida Lloyd's Owned, written by Clare Dunne; €15,500 to Marcie Films for Peter Mackie Burns's Trade, written by Mark O'Halloran; €15,000 to Fail Safe Films for Ian Hunt Duffy's Double Blind, written by Darach McGarrigle; €14,500 to Grand Pictures for Gerry Stembridge's Bring Your Blue Skies Back, written by Peter Hanly; €14,200 to Tilted Pictures for La Belle Rafaela, written by Vittoria Colonna; €13,050 to SP Films for Airlock, written by Jamie Hannigan; €12,900 to Danman Films for Stephen Bradley's The High Five, The, written by Bradley; €12,800 to Marcie Films for Succession, written by Fran Harris; €11,300 to Tailored Films for Kin, written by Niall Byrne; €7,950 to 925 Productions for Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair's Neon, based on Ní Ghrioghair's short of the same name; €7,500 to Park Films for The Quiet Woman, written by Caroline Grace-Cassidy and Ciara Geraghty; and €7,500 to Parallel Film Productions for Sidelined, written by Ailbhe Keogan.
Distribution Funding
Five films were offered Direct Distribution funding with €15,000 going to Zanzibar Films for Chris Kelly's A Cambodian Spring, €15,000 to Creeney Films for Maurice Fitzpatrick's John Hume: In The Name Of Peace, €10,000 to Fine Point Films for Ross McDonnell and Tim Golden's Elian, €10,000 to Fine Point Films for Micheal Fanning's Rocky Ros Muc, €6,080 to Wavelength Pictures for Mark Noonan's Kevin Roche: The Living Architect.
Under Distribution Support, which provides funds to distributors of Irish film, awards were given of €50,000 to Element Distribution for Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing Of The Sacred Deer, of €30,000 to Wildcard Distribution for Bharat Nalluri's The Man Who Invented Christmas, €22,500 for Pat Collins's Song Of Granite, €15,000 for Frankie Fenton's It’s Not Yet Dark, €10,000 for Sophie Fiennes's Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami and €6,000 for Volker Schlondorff's Return To Montauk. €15,000 was also awarded to Eclipse Distribution for Gerry Gregg's Condemned To Remember.
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