Funding Schemes

  Galway Film Centre (GFC) and RTÉ are celebrating a momentous 30 years of the GFC/RTÉ Short Film Commission, a scheme set up to give a voice and platform to emerging talent in the film industry in Ireland.  Placing screen talent at its heart, the initiative is the longest running short film scheme in Ireland, offering writers, directors and producers the opportunity to produce a live action short ...

Galway Film Centre are delighted to announce that we will be hosting an online screening from Thursday February 4th until Sunday February 7th of our two new short documentaries In Between Lands by Laura Griffin and Hidden Collision by Emma Zukovic as part of our Dig Where You Stand programme. ...

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 ...