SINGLE PROJECT AND SLATE FUNDING

These two schemes support the development of film, TV and digital platform projects aimed at the international market.

14 UK production companies secured €1,096,626 worth of development funding in the final two years of the programme. This supported a variety of development activities including; script writing, research, location scouting, travel to markets and festivals, pre-production budgeting and scheduling and staff costs.

€1m

awarded to 14 UK producers

Single Project

COMPANY UK NATION PROJECT TITLE (PROJECT TYPE) 2019 AMOUNT € 2020 AMOUNT € Blue Zoo Productions England Big Tree City (Animation) 60,000 Cork Films England The Stolen Television Series (Fiction) 50,000 Patchwork Productions England The Tentmaster’s Daughter (Fiction) 30,000

Recorded Picture Company England Elements of Fear (Fiction) 50,000

Wildgaze Films England The Giant’s House (Fiction) 50,000

104 Films South England Something Else (Fiction) 50,000

Alt Animation

Northern Ireland Lugi – The Brodgar Boy (Animation) Film and Music Entertainment England Murder in Batumi (Fiction)

Wellington Films Sixteen Films England England Any Means Necessary (Fiction) Harvest (Fiction)

Slate Funding

60,000 50,000 50,000 50,000

240,000 260,000

COMPANY Passion Pictures Spring Films The Bureau Films Number 9 Films UK NATION PROJECT TYPE England England England England Documentary Documentary Fiction Fiction 2019 AMOUNT € 2020 AMOUNT € 123,126 120,000 153,500

200,000

396,626 200,000

UK company Banyak Films received Single Project development funding to support the development of Maya in 2018. The documentary follows story of an Iranian animal trainer and his beloved Bengal tiger and is due to be completed in 2020. Image courtesy of Banyak Films.

“The development funding from Creative Europe was essential in getting this project off the ground. With their support we were able to put together the right visual material to attract and confirm production funding. It wouldn’t have happened without them.”