The TellingStory Fund
The TellingStory Fund will be a fund of up to €30,000 per year (subject to funding being secured) for the next two years, which will be administered by Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival, with the support of The Centre for Social Action Media. The funds ...
Training Programmes
Post-graduate Certificate in Media Social Entrepreneurship & various Social Response Courses The SAM Centre will shortly be offering a one year part-time Post-graduate Certificate in Media Social Entrepreneurship, which we hope will be accredited through a regional Institute of Technology, and a range of shorter ...
Climate Action 2011 – The SAM Sessions
The Social Action Media (SAM) Sessions are our cultural response to the issues of Climate Change, with Screenings, a Think-Tank and Web-hosted SAM Talks (think, an Irish TED TALKS), during the 6th Guth Gafa International Film Festival. To be part of this important gathering of ...
The TellingStory Fund
Training Programmes
Climate Action 2011 – The SAM Sessions
The TellingStory Fund
The TellingStory Fund will be a fund of up to €30,000 per year (subject to funding being secured) for the next two years, which will be administered by Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival, with the support of The Centre for Social Action Media. The funds will be awarded, through a process of submission, pre-selection and pitching, to three documentary projects a year that have a social or environmental focus. The TellingStory Fund grants will be production grants, not development grants, and will be awarded to projects where the making of a documentary film could amplify their social or environmental impact.
Through the use of creative and innovative documentary film methods, the selected projects must address entrenched social or environmental problems in Ireland, and seek to raise awareness and understanding of these issues and the underlying global issues impacting on Ireland.
The pitching for the TellingStory Fund will take place at Guth Gafa 2012 and 2013, and the selection panel will consist of international industry experts, social entrepreneurs, and representatives from the Irish film and television industries. The Fund will encourage the building of networks and partnerships between the independent film and television sector, broadcasters and other public agencies.
Deadlines and Submission Criteria will be announced in Autumn of 2011, and will be available on the SAM Centre website and on the Guth Gafa website here.