The Irish Film Board recently announced the application date for the next round of Frameworks.
This is a scheme that funds short animated films and has been hugely successful in raising the profile of Irish animation and the careers of Irish animators, including many of us here in Brown Bag. Shorts remain a real passion for us here in the studio. Shorts were an early inspiration when starting out in college and I loved the work of people such as Paul Driessen and Cordell Barker.
I still remember the lights going down for the screening of my first ever short ‘The Creation of Life’ at the Galway Film Fleadh in 1991. The rush I felt at watching this labour of love being viewed by a group of strangers in a dark cinema followed by the elation I felt when it received applause meant I was hooked! Creating animated films to make people laugh, cry, think, feel was what I wanted to do.
Despite having produced a number of frameworks including Give Up Yer Aul Sins and Granny O’Grimm, I have never directed a Frameworks film myself… hmmm, maybe this year? Excuse me while I blow dust off that idea that’s been sitting on the shelf for the last couple of years screaming out to be animated! The deadline is the 24th of April so I’d better get writing!
