Funding Schemes

Galway Film Centre in association with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland and Gréasán na Meán Skillnet are pleased to announce the return of Script Mentorship Scheme for 2020 which has been expanded to include a Script Editor. Now in its third cycle, the hugely successful scheme is ...

Galway Film Centre (GFC) and RTÉ are delighted to announce The Radio as the newest GFC/RTÉ Short Film Commission. After beating off stiff competition from over 50 applicants, Thomas Conway’s short script received further development support and will now go into production with Director Laura Kavanagh and Producer Evan Horan ...

Dig Where You Stand 2019 – Call Out Galway Film Centre is delighted to announce the return of Dig Where You Stand, the documentary funding scheme for young filmmakers in Galway City and County. The Dig Where You Stand scheme to date has produced four documentaries Grá & Eagla by ...

Galway Film Centre will kick off our involvement with the Galway Film Fleadh on Wednesday July 10th at 12.00 with the Short Film Recommended Rapper as part of the Irish Talent: New Shorts 1 – Documentary. We will then directly follow that with Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody at 2pm. Read more about the ...

Ionad Scannán na Gaillimhe/the Galway Film Centre (GFC) will have a very strong presence at the 31st Galway Film Fleadh. In addition to the premieres of four GFC films, GFC will present the One Minute Film Festival and the Fleadh Forum. Cumar: A Galway Rhapody, The Bridge, Loving Alex and ...

Galway Film Centre  and RTÉ are delighted to announce the return of the GFC / RTÉ Short Film Commission Scheme. The scheme is an opportunity for individual writers, directors and producers to apply for an award to produce a live action short film of up to 10 minutes.  Successful candidates ...

The premiere screening of our two documentaries produced through this years Dig Where You Stand funding scheme will take place at 3pm on Saturday 6th April in Pálás. To book your FREE tickets through Eventbrite, please click HERE.   cultúr is a short experiential documentary capturing youth culture in Galway ...

We have added a short extension on to our deadline for our Dig Where You Stand Funding Scheme. New Deadline: Wednesday 26th September 12pm Galway Film Centre is delighted to announce the return of Dig Where You Stand, the documentary funding scheme for young filmmakers in Galway City and County. ...

Guidelines:          Two individual short documentary films, 10 to 15 minutes in duration, will be produced, with one based in the Galway City and one in County Galway. Participating filmmakers must be based in Galway and be under 35 years of age. A budget of up to €6000 is available per ...