14/05/25
Innovative partnership between Northern Ireland Screen and Habitat for Humanity Ireland gives set pieces a second act—raising funds for local communities and reducing waste. (Pictured – Niall McConkey, ReStore Impact Manager; Ricardo Manso, […]
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30/04/25
Northern Ireland Screen is now seeking feature film scripts to develop for its New Writer Focus scheme 2025-26. New Writer Focus is Northern Ireland Screen’s flagship script development scheme, dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging screenwriting […]
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16/04/25
Tuesday 3 June to Wednesday 4 June 2025 The Strategy Days is a two-day workshop programme for UK-based screen content creator studios, across: Film and TV: Fiction Film and TV: Factual Animation Interactive Narrative Video Games Distribution The event will run in-person at Ormeau […]
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16/04/25
Northern Ireland Screen are seeking to appoint freelance workshop tutors to provide seminar delivery services for our Networkshops series in the fiction sector. We require the speakers to have detailed insight and professional […]
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15/04/25
The BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund, reopens today seeking applications from UK screen organisations to create and deliver targeted project development programmes for features or immersive projects. Awarding between £12,000 to £150,000 […]
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14/04/25
Tourism Ireland is delighted to announce that applications are open for the second round of its International Programming Ireland Fund 2025. The fund is designed to showcase the island of Ireland as a […]
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10/04/25
Docs Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen, in association with Yellowmoon Post Production, are offering a chance for new and emerging documentary makers to receive an award of up to £9,000 towards a pilot […]
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20/03/25
First piloted in 2022, the Hot House co-commissioning scheme is a joint initiative between BBC Unscripted and BBC Northern Ireland with support from Northern Ireland Screen, aimed at growing network production capacity in […]
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18/11/24
We’re excited to announce that submissions are now open for the latest series of BBC NI and Northern Ireland Screen’s short filmmaking initiative Two Minute Masterpiece. Whether it’s your first time submitting, you’ve applied […]
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28/10/24
Northern Ireland Screen and The Canada Media Fund have announced the four projects selected for funding through the Canada-Northern Ireland Co-Development Incentive for Audiovisual Projects. Shinawil NI Ltd and Sphere Media will develop […]
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24/09/24
Economy Minister Conor Murphy has visited the set of the HBO Original drama series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in Glenarm, Co. Antrim. The six part high-end TV drama series filmed on […]
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11/09/24
Economy Minister Conor Murphy has welcomed an innovative partnership between Northern Ireland Screen and community-sharing app Olio to collect unconsumed food from large scale film and high-end TV productions to share with local […]
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21/08/24
Northern Ireland Screen, in partnership with BBC Northern Ireland and Belfast Harbour will host the inaugural Screen Industry Sustainability Showcase, an event dedicated to fostering sustainability within the screen industry. The event […]
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21/06/24
Northern Ireland Screen’s Creative Animation Scheme is designed to develop Northern Ireland resident junior creators/animators through the production of animated short films. The scheme provides junior level creators/animators with the opportunity to develop […]
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14/06/24
Video Nasty, a six part original comedy drama written by Hugh Travers, is set to air in early 2025 on BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in the UK, Virgin Media […]
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13/06/24
Applications are now open for the 2024-25 New Shorts Focus fiction development scheme, supported by Northern Ireland Screen and the BFI. The annual scheme has been designed to support under-represented new and emerging […]
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05/06/24
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Northern Ireland Screen (NIS) announced today the reopening, for the seventh year, of their funding incentive for the development of audiovisual and interactive digital media projects between […]
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15/05/24
Calling all Northern Ireland writers: could you be the next big thing? Would you like to see your words come alive on the big screen? Have you written a script that’s ready to […]
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03/05/24
Call for TV funding applications Tourism Ireland invites applications for Round 2 of its 2024 International Programming Ireland Fund, to be submitted by 3pm GMT on Wednesday 5th June 2024. Now in its […]
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30/04/24
Funding up to £120,000 available for standalone bold and ambitious short form animation projects, opening for applications on 7 May. The BFI has opened funding for applications to the BFI National Lottery Short […]
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09/02/24
The ILBF, BBC Gaeilge and TG4 are seeking ideas for Gealán – the feature length Irish language drama initiative. Doineann, which premiered previously at the Belfast Film Festival, and winner of last year’s RTS NI award […]
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09/02/24
Northern Ireland Screen intends to provide funding through the Screen Fund to develop feature documentaries with the potential to appeal to an international audience that will deliver unique visions and voices on universal […]
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17/11/23
Disney+ UK and Northern Ireland Screen has today announced at Belfast Media Festival, a collaboration to help support and grow the production sector in Northern Ireland. Local independent production companies are invited to […]
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23/08/23
BBC Northern Ireland has launched its Autumn 2023 schedule with a mix of documentary, drama, entertainment and factual programmes, as well as some returning favourites. Irish dancing, online scamming, the realities of prison […]
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17/07/23
Northern Ireland Screen’s latest New Talent Focus film, Lie of the Land won Best Irish First Feature at the 2023 Galway Film Fleadh. The tense drama was created through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent […]
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