Exhibition and Education Funding
Screen Yorkshire is the regional partner for the UK Film Council and works to deliver a number of key initiatives in areas such as audience development, cultural access, education and participation through the Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE) lottery fund.
Please note, applications to the RIFE Fund and Digital Film Archive Fund for are now closed. We will announce our next call for applications in Spring 2010. Please check back for further details or sign up to our monthly e-bulletin to ensure that you are notified when the fund is reopened.
Screen Yorkshire provides money through the fund for:
Strand 1 - Audience Development
This fund aims to support and extend the provision, promotion and interpretation of specialist film culture in the region. Screen Yorkshire aims to extend access and opportunities for audiences to experience a diverse range of moving image culture. This priority is primarily aimed at cinemas, festivals, archives and non-theatrical exhibition sector (mobile cinema and film societies); however other organisations with appropriate projects are also welcome to apply.
Strand 2 Critical Understanding & Cultural Access
This strand will support education projects focused on the exhibition of film for young audiences, developing media literacy and passing on film interpretation skills.
Strand 3 Participation
This strand will support participatory projects with a focus on engaging young people (under 19s) or community groups in film and media creation.
Digital Film Archive Fund
The Digital Archive Fund is a UK Film Council Lottery Fund set up to increase public access to regional screen heritage. We are seeking applications for ambitious projects that seek to inspire the broadest possible engagement with screen heritage material, from education projects working with specific target groups to large-scale screening programmes for general audiences.
We are working to develop media and film education and media literacy in line with the strategies laid out in the recently published UK Wide Film Education Strategy Film: 21st Century Literacy. For more information, click here>
Mediabox - Applications Open for 2010
Mediabox, the fund that offers disadvantaged 13 - 19 year olds the opportunity to create their own media projects, from film and radio to print and video games will continue for with an additional £8.25 million of funding available nationwide. Mediabox enables young people the chance to gain new skills, express their opinions and get their voices heard and has funded over £719,000 of activity in Yorkshire since it began in 2006. More>
Other sources of funding for film and media education projects
First Light - www.firstlightonline.co.uk
Arts Council funding - www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/index.php
The Princes Trust - www.princes-trust.org.uk
Big Lottery - www.biglotteryfund.org.uk
Heritage Lottery - www.hlf.org.uk
For further sources of funding click here.
Sheffield Doc/fest 2009Doc/fest's Best Year Yet!
The 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest was the most successful to date, with a record 1,885 delegates attending from over 20 different countries. Over the four-day festival there were 50 sessions and more than 120 films from 21 countries, including 19 World premieres, 8 EU premieres and 45 UK premieres. Box office sales to the public were also up by over 30 per cent on last year.The festival's successful MeetMarket had 250 producers, buyers and distributors attending 1000 meetings to discuss documentary business. The deals made during the week will generate millions of pounds for the industry (£8.5m in 2008), with many filmmakers receiving the funds needed to turn their ideas into reality.
Screen Yorkshire supports Doc/Fest through Lottery funding, the Digital Film Archive Fund and the Business Investment Fund.
