In round 22 the BAI awards €1.4M in funding to education and animation projects through the Sound & Vision funding scheme. This round was focused exclusively on these genres, as the Authority felt they were under-represented in terms of awards in each year.
- €964,457 allocated to 7 TV Education projects.
- €318,700 allocated to 4 TV animation projects.
A total of 90 applications were received. The package of recommendations includes four animation projects and twenty-one education projects across commercial, community and public service television and radio broadcasters.
Speaking about the funding announcements, the Chief Executive Michael O’Keeffe said “the decision to have a targeted round, as requested by our stakeholders, has met with mixed results in terms of the number of applications received and funded, particularly for animation. However, this targeted round has worked more successfully for education projects and has seen an increase in funding to education projects overall across all three funding rounds in 2014.”
The BAI will now commence contract negotiations with all successful applicants.A full list of the projects being offered funding is available below:
Sound & Vision II | Round 22 Animation and Eduction funding pdf.
The above content is a press release from BAI.