Short Film Bursary Awards 2025

The Short Film Bursary Award

The Short Film Bursary Award aims to foster talent, creativity and activity in filmmaking in County Longford. A grant of €7,000 will be awarded to a filmmaker towards the cost of production of a short drama or documentary film of 10-12 mins duration to be shot in Longford in 2025.

Championing homegrown talent is an agreed measure to develop capacity and support for Longford filmmakers and open our doors to filmmaking in Longford.

We are looking for original, entertaining stories by talented filmmakers who, if selected, must set and shoot their project in County Longford. One of the core creative team (writer, director, producer) must be from or living in the county.

Closing Date

The application deadline is 5pm on Friday, 20 December 2024.

How to Apply

Apply via the online Short Film Bursary Award Application.

The online application system does not accept attachments. Please email your mandatory documents and any other documents you wish to be submitted as part of your application to artsoffice@longfordcoco.ie.

Before applying, please familiarise yourself with the Terms and Conditions, which include eligibility criteria.

Assessment process

Your application will be processed by members of the Arts Office Administrative team. Any applications that fall outside the eligibility guidelines and criteria may be eliminated at this point. Longford Council reserves the right to redirect applications for consideration to appropriate categories other than those applied for, should it be deemed beneficial to the applicant to so do. 

All applications will be assessed by the Assessment Team (which consists of two independent assessors). Letters of offer will be issued to all applicants by mid-January.

Freedom of Information considerations

Longford County Council is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1997, 2003. If you consider that any information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential, this should be highlighted and the reasons for sensitivity specified. In such cases, the relevant material will, in response to an FOI request, be examined in the light of the exemptions provided for in the Acts.