{"id":17190,"date":"2021-11-05T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/laois-short-film-bursary-award\/"},"modified":"2021-11-05T03:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:03:19","slug":"laois-short-film-bursary-award","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/laois-short-film-bursary-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois Short Film Bursary Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Laois Short Film Bursary has been awarded to Swandive Productions for their short film\u00a0<em>Superhuman<\/em>. The film explores universal themes, with a micro lens on para-athletics and being black and living in Ireland. It showcases a young person overcoming great challenges, as well as people giving support to those who need it most. It is a pertinent film and sheds light on new types of narratives and the lives of those that often go unseen.\u00a0The successful team awarded the Bursary consists of writer\/director\u00a0Mich\u00e9al Fleming from The Swan\u00a0and producer\u00a0Michael-David McKernan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The inaugural Laois Short Film Bursary was launched in July 2021 and film teams across the county and country submitted scripts as part of the application process. <\/span><span>Key criteria for eligibility is that <\/span><span>o<\/span><span>ne of the core creative team (Writer\/Director\/Producer) must be from or living in Laois, and that the film is made in Laois. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The next round of the Laois Short Film Bursary Award will be open to writers, directors and producers early in 2022. Requirements include submitting a <\/span><span>high quality script \/ screenplay that reflects aspects of Irish experience across different generations, gender, ethnicities, class and landscapes, and is situated in Co Laois.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>More information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/laois.ie\/creative-ireland-film-bursary-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17191,"template":"","class_list":["post-17190","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Laois Short Film Bursary Award - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The inaugural Laois Short Film Bursary has been awarded to Swandive Productions for their short film\u00a0Superhuman.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/laois-short-film-bursary-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laois Short Film Bursary Award - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The inaugural Laois Short Film Bursary has been awarded to Swandive Productions for their short film\u00a0Superhuman. 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