Short Film Scheme

Ardán and Galway City of Film run an annual Short Documentary Bursary, the documentary funding scheme for filmmakers in Galway City and County.

This scheme is open to up-and-coming filmmakers to apply to this bursary to help them make one of their first steps in their early filmmaking career. Successful applicants will be given a bursary of €3000 to help them make a short documentary of between five and fifteen minutes in duration. They will also be mentored by a professional documentarian to help them make the best film they can.

The selected filmmakers will be mentored by Galway-based documentary filmmaker Donal Haughey of Hawkeye Films. Donal has produced and/or directed over thirty documentaries both for his own company, Hawkeye Films and as a freelancer. His projects have involved been both national and international stories, consisting of feature-length, one-hour, half-hour and short form docs. For twenty years Donal was the documentary tutor on GMIT’s Film & Documentary course – honours, Level 8. Presently he has two projects in research, one on our relationship with memory and secondly a project dealing with the Galway Magdalen Laundry.

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