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About Frameworks
FRAMEWORKS is an established scheme for the making of animated short films which BSÉ/IFB considers to be so successful in stimulating ground-breaking new work from Irish animators that it intends to continue the scheme in its present form.

Projects selected for funding will combine creative exploration with an ability to appeal to a broad audience.

The scheme is co-funded by BSÉ/IFB, the Arts Council and RTÉ and the new deadline for applications will be announced early 2010.

Films may be made in Irish or English.

Parameters of the Scheme
   -  Number of films: up to 6 per year

   -  Duration: maximum 6 minutes

   -  Budget per film: maximum €50,000

   -  Format:
            -  Origination using any technique or format
            -  Delivery on digi-beta and HD Cam
            -  Further funding to cover costs of 35mm prints may be
               provided where a film obtains a bona fide theatrical
               release in Ireland or is invited to a major international 
               film festival, subject to BSÉ/IFB regulations in force at
               the time

*Please note that this scheme is delivered on HD Cam, as well as Digi-beta, and the application budget should reflect the costs required to deliver on these formats

Who Can Apply?
Applications are invited from producer/director/writer teams (where the producer and director are not the same person) subject to eligibility guidelines as follows:

Producers - must provide a CV demonstrating their ability to produce animation.
Directors - must have previously directed at least one short film*
Writers - need not have previously written for the screen

Producers, Directors and Writers - may apply to make more than one FRAMEWORKS film but not more than three in a 10-year period

The scheme is not open to full-time students

* FRAMEWORKS is not a wide-open scheme in terms of the talent it aims to attract: it is designed to enable the making of short animated films by producers and directors with new creative voices but also with some measure of professional experience. Accordingly a short film made as part of college work will not be considered eligible in this context, though a graduation film that has achieved significant festival exposure might be.

Procedure
Application deadline for FRAMEWORKS to be produced in 2009: 24th April.
Application forms should be downloaded from BSÉ/IFB's website, completed in full, and sent - together with all the additional materials requested - to BSÉ/IFB's head office in Galway. (It is not possible to apply for BSÉ/IFB funding by fax or online.) Incomplete applications will not be processed.

Submissions will be examined, with consideration given to the screenplay and the creative team, by a group of assessors put together by the funders from in-house and externally. A shortlist of around 10 teams will be drawn up, who will be invited to attend an interview.

Awards will be made to up to six teams, the number of FRAMEWORKS to be funded being dependent upon the overall standard of submissions. Teams selected must attend an information day in order to be entitled to claim their funding.

Rights
Copyright in films made under the FRAMEWORKS scheme will remain with the filmmaking team. However BSÉ/IFB will be assigned all distribution rights in Ireland in perpetuity and will appoint a sales agent for the scheme to handle distribution rights in the rest of the world for a period of five (5) years. After that five (5) year period, all rights in the rest of world will revert to the filmmaking team.

Important Features of the Scheme

• As a general rule FRAMEWORKS films should be originated and creatively led by Irish talent or talent resident in Ireland, and their production should be practically managed from Ireland.

• BSÉ/IFB will have approval rights over the following elements of all films made under the scheme:
     -  Shooting script (and BSÉ/IFB may appoint a script editor in certain cases)
     -  Casting
     -  Key animators and other technical crew

 

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