Funding offers – Round 60
We have announced almost €4 million in funding for a wide range of new radio and TV productions as part of the R60 ‘Shared Island, Shared Stories’ funding round of Sound & Vision.
This funding round, part of the Shared Island Media Fund and operated under our Sound & Vision Scheme, will support television and radio programming that reflects the experiences and diverse and shared heritages of communities across the island and brings the objectives of the Shared Island Media Fund to life.
The funding offers and recipients are outlined in the table below. Please use the scroll button on the right-hand side.
| Contractor | Project name | Funding recommended | % of total budget | Channel | Format | Genre | Audience | Language | No. of progs | Prog. duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connemara Community Radio | A Belfast Boy in Connemara – Ó Bhéal Feirste go Conamara | €10,665 | 90 | Connemara Community Radio | Documentary | History/Heritage | Family | Bi-lingual | 2 | 54 |
| PIO Media LTD | A Garda and a Policewoman | €6,900 | 87 | Newstalk 106-108FM | Drama | History/Heritage | 35-54 | English | 1 | 46 |
| Padraic Flaherty | A New Session | €4,600 | 91 | Clare FM | Documentary | Contemporary society | 35-54 | Bi-lingual | 1 | 60 |
| Mary Lavery Carrig | Accidents Happen, Michael and the RNLI | €5,300 | 95 | Newstalk 106-108FM | Documentary | Contemporary society | Family | English | 1 | 45 |
| Curious Broadcast Limited | After The Sacred | €12,900 | 75 | RTÉ Lyric FM | Documentary | History/Heritage | All adults | English | 3 | 45 |
| Fíbín Films Limited | Aiséirí | €400,000 | 19 | TG4 | Drama | Contemporary society | 15-34 | Irish | 1 | 100 |
| Philip Taggart | All Ireland Vinyl with Charles Hendy | €28,636 | 75 | RTÉ Radio 1 / RTÉ Gold | Entertainment | Arts/Culture | 35-54 | English | 8 | 55 |
| Greenstem Films | An Abhainn Mhór – Teorainn Uisce | €46,800 | 89 | DCTV | Documentary | Science/Nature/Environment | Family | Bi-lingual | 1 | 53 |
| Raidió na Life | Ar Scáth a Chéile (Teideal Oibre) | €12,744 | 95 | Raidió na Life | Documentary | History/Heritage | All adults | Irish | 4 | 45 |
| James Wilson | Are you a Protestant Jew or a Catholic Jew?’ Irish Jews and the Troubles | €3,495 | 93 | Newstalk 106-108FM | Documentary | History/Heritage | All adults | English | 1 | 45 |
| Dearcán Media CIC | Bás in Éirinn | €133,600 | 46 | TG4 | Documentary | Contemporary society | 35-54 | Irish | 1 | 70 |
| Fine Point Films Limited | Bloody Sunday: A Love Story | €121,000 | 78 | RTÉ One | Documentary | History/Heritage | All adults | English | 1 | 50 |
| Noel Murphy | Breaking Borders | €26,200 | 88 | Northern Sound / Shannonside | Documentary | Contemporary society | All adults | English | 6 | 50 |
| Scratch Films | Hallowed Ground | €400,000 | 73 | RTÉ One | Documentary | History/Heritage | All adults | English | 3 | 50 |
| Below the Radar Ltd | Heartbeat Heroes | €316,470 | 72 | Virgin Media One | Documentary | Contemporary society | All adults | English | 4 | 46 |
| Monster Entertainment LTD | I’m a bird | €240,000 | 37 | RTÉ 2 / RTÉJr | Animation | Children’s | <15 | Bi-lingual | 26 | 2 |
| Spark Media | Inside the Dementia Brain | €204,700 | 66 | Virgin Media One | Documentary | Contemporary society | 35-54 | English | 2 | 60 |
| Corcra Media Ltd | Laoithe na bhFiann | €38,420 | 75 | RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta | Entertainment | Arts/Culture | 35-54 | Irish | 6 | 45 |
| Conor McGinnity | Left Back | €7,904 | 95 | LMFM | Drama | Contemporary society | All adults | English | 1 | 50 |
| Wild Atlantic Pictures | Loyal | €450,000 | 7 | BBC NI | Drama | Contemporary society | All adults | English | 1 | 100 |
| Harvest Films Limited | Muintir na Tuaithe (People of the Earth) | €150,000 | 21 | BBCNI / TG4 | Documentary | History/Heritage | 55+ | Bi-lingual | 1 | 90 |
| Central Entertainment Bureau Ltd | Sessions From Oblivion | €43,470 | 75 | RTÉ 2FM | Entertainment | Arts/Culture | 15-34 | English | 10 | 30 |
| Paper Owl Films Ltd (previously Indee) | Spritelites / Síofraí Solais / Spricht Lichts | €440,000 | 37 | BBC NI | Animation | Children’s | <15 | Bi-lingual | 26 | 7 |
| Straywave Media | The Last Parliament | €80,960 | 76 | Oireachtas TV | Documentary | History/Heritage | All adults | English | 1 | 50 |
| Underground Films Commissioning | The Peace She Left Us | €220,000 | 50.4 | RTÉ One | Documentary | Contemporary society | All adults | English | 1 | 85 |
| Brick Row Ltd | The Tapestry of Us | €25,600 | 75 | RTÉ Radio 1 | Documentary | Contemporary society | All adults | English | 4 | 52 |
| Appetite Media Ltd | X-Spelled: All Island Spelling Quiz | €490,000 | 79 | RTÉ 2 | Entertainment | Children’s | Family | English | 10 | 24 |
