While Edinburgh Film Focus can help save you on time, money and red tape by facilitating your crew and locations needs. You may also be interested in the opportunities provided by SCOTTISH SCREEN and MEDIA to hep with script and production development and production funding.
Scottish Screen is a Scottish Executive funded organisation, which allocates National Lottery funds to develop feature scripts, and offers investment to help move them into production. They invest in shorts, low budget and medium budget features. Through partnering film schemes such as the long-running Tartan Shorts, Tartan Smalls, New Found Land and Cineworks, Scottish Screen provides wide opportunities for filmmakers.
Film Funding
Scottish Screen offer support, advice and finance towards the development of feature films of any genre intended for theatrical release. Awards under Script Development and Project Development can be for fiction, documentary or animation projects but can only be made to production companies.
For Writers
In addition to funding development of screenplays, Scottish Screen can also provide feedback on scripts where there is evidence that the writer has the potential to develop the script and/or their writing ability.
Feedback on feature length scripts is available to:
- Scottish based production companies
- Scottish based writers
- Production companies outside Scotland working with writers based in Scotland.
Seed Funding
This small fund is intended to encourage feature film projects at the early stages of development, typically where a project is insufficiently developed to be eligible for an award under our Lottery-funded Script Development Scheme. It is open to both companies and individuals. The maximum award is £5,000 and takes the form of a loan repayable if the project goes into production.
Further information on all the above schemes can be found at http://www.scottishscreen.com or write to
Judy Anderson
Production Development Administrator
Scottish Screen
Second Floor
249 West George Street
Glasgow G2 4QE
Scotland UK
Tel: 0141 302 1752
Fax: 0141 302 1778
E: judy.anderson@scottishscreen.com
MEDIA is a 5-year programme of the European Union to strengthen the competitiveness of the European film, TV and new media industries and to increase international circulation of European audiovisual product.
MEDIA Plus has been running since January 2001 and brings with it an array of guidelines and application forms.
Funding schemes cover Development, Distribution (Sales Agents and Distributors), Training, Festivals & Markets, Promotion, and some production funding under the remit of TV Broadcasting. Visit their web site for further information http://www.mediadesk.co.uk or write to
Emma Valentine
MEDIA
249 West George Street
Glasgow G2 4QE
Scotland UK
T: 0141 302 1776/7
F: 0141 302 1778
E: scotland@mediadesk.co.uk
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