Animated in Ireland Irish Animation Industry Directory Co-producing with Ireland? Financial Incentives Available Animated in Ireland Irish Animation Industry Directory IRISH TAX INCENTIVE “SECTION 481” • Applies to animated feature films and television made in Ireland • Currently, projects may derive a benefit of up to 28% of qualifying expenditure • From 2015 and subject to EU approval, projects will be able to derive a benefit of up to 32% of qualifying expenditure • From 2015, this benefit will be based on the cost of all cast and crew (regardless of nationality) working in Ireland, and all spend on local goods and services For more information or to arrange an introduction to possible co-production partners, please contact: Irish Film Board About the Irish Animation Industry 2 Keg Kartoonz 13 Tel +353 91 561 398 [email protected] Kavaleer Productions 14 www.irishfilmboard.ie A Man & Ink 4 Magpie 6 Media 15 Boulder Media 5 Moetion Films 16 OTHER SOURCES OF FINANCE Brown Bag Films ® 6 Monster Entertainment 17 Barley Films 7 Paper Dreams 18 Irish Film Board Development and production funding for animated features and television series. Caboom 7 Prickly Pear Productions 18 Tel +353 91 561 398 www.irishfilmboard.ie Cartoon Saloon 8 Still Films 19 Dancing Girl Productions 9 Studio POWWOW 20 Broadcasters Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) TG4 TV3/3e Double Z Enterprises 9 Zink Films 20 Tel +353 1 208 3111 Tel +353 91 505050 Tel +353 1 419 3333 Geronimo Productions 10 Telegael 21 www.rte.ie www.tg4.ie www.tv3.ie Giant Animation Studios 11 Treehouse Republic 22 Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Public funding for projects with an Irish broadcaster involved. JAM Media 12 Wiggleywoo 23 Tel +353 1 644 1200 Ink and Light 13 www.bai.ie Irish Directors Directory 24 About the Irish Animation Industry Ireland has always been a hub of creativity and artistic talent, In recent years Irish animation has been and nowhere is this clearer to see than in the Irish animation nominated for every major international award, industry. This flourishing sector now accounts for one-third including Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Emmys of the country’s audio-visual industry, and production activity and Annies. is increasing every year. Underpinning the sector’s competitiveness in a Irish animation studios are working with some of the global landscape is the Irish tax incentive for film biggest names in global broadcasting—including Disney, and television, Section 481, which was recently Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and the BBC—making improved by the government. (Read more about animated series that are shown to millions of children all over S481 on the inside-front page of this booklet.) the world every week. Award-winning features and shorts, animated programming for adults, apps and games are made Watch our Animated in Ireland trailer at here by our dynamic, technically advanced—and entirely www.animationireland.com indigenous—2D and 3D studios. or www.irishfilmboard.ie 2 www.animationireland.com www.irishfilmboard.ie www.enterprise-ireland.com 3 A Man & Ink A Man & Ink have been working hard for the past ten years producing animation both independently and in collaboration with other companies across shorts, TV series and features. For themselves, they made the shorts Scarecrow, Miss Remarkable & Her Career — with Lisbet Gabrielsson AB (Sweden) and Bullitt Film (Denmark), winner of the Fipresci Award at the Annecy International Animation Festival — and The Neighbours — a co-production Boulder Media with ithinkasia (Cambodia) that is Boulder Media have been making high-end 2D and 3D currently touring festivals — and the animation for international markets at their Dublin studio mini-series The Variety Show. And with since 2000, producing shows like the Emmy award– others: the series Ish’hafan (Freakish Kid, winning Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, El Tigre, and Hungary) and Joe & Jack (Dancing Girl the BAFTA, Annie and Emmy award–winning The Amazing Productions, Ireland); and the feature World of Gumball for Cartoon Network. They have already films The Secret of Kells and Song of the completed season one of Disney XDs flagship show Randy Sea (both with Cartoon Saloon, Ireland). Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and also produced the first They are also currently working on a feature-length Lalaloopsy DVD for toy manufacturers MGA. short called A Stitch in Time. Jansson on the Train Other high-profile clients include Nickelodeon and ABC. Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja CURRENT PROJECTS CURRENT PROJECTS • A Stitch in Time: short film • Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja season two: (in production) 48 x 11 minutes (in production) • Jansson on the Train: feature film • Fresh Cut Grass: a 9-minute original short film by (in development) Boulder’s Creative Director, Robert Cullen (in production) • Ethan Darklight: an original boy’s action/comedy series (in development) The Amazing World of Gumball The Neighbours Fresh Cut Grass A Man & Ink Jeremy Purcell, Producer Boulder Media Peter Lewis, Anne Tweedy, Producers 4 [email protected] +353 (0)91 501 046 www.amanandink.com [email protected] [email protected] +353 (0)1 677 9775 www.bouldermedia.tv 5 Barley Films Barley Films are passionate about diversity. The company has produced nine animated shorts since 2002 using CGI, cut-out, digital and hand-drawn techniques. Their work has screened at over 300 festivals in 39 countries. The Barley Films crew has always had an international flavour, with artists from Ireland, Canada, the UK, France, Sweden, South Korea, • Little Caribou Lithuania and Italy all working at their Dublin studio. They are also proud that four of their films have been directed by talented women. Peter Rabbit The company plans to produce a trilogy of animated features in Ireland over the next five years. The first of these is their principal ® CURRENT PROJECTS development project from the last few years, Brown Bag Films • Doc McStuffins: 52 x 11-minute Little Caribou. TV series (season 3 in production) Seven Santas Brown Bag Films® is one of Europe’s most successful creative-led • Peter Rabbit: 52 x 11-minute CURRENT PROJECTS animation studios. Celebrating twenty years in business, their TV series (season 2 in production) Dublin-based headquarters have produced cutting-edge animation • Little Caribou: feature film (pre-production) • Octonauts: 52 x 11-minute Barley Films Barry O’Donoghue, Director for the international market since 1994, bagging numerous awards • Seven Santas: feature film (late development) TV series (season 4 in production) [email protected] +353 (0)1 289 9224 along the way. These include Oscar® nominations for Give Up • Henry Hugglemonster: www.barleyfilms.net Yer Aul Sins (2002) and Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty 52 x 11-minute TV series (2010), three Emmy® awards for Peter Rabbit (2014), and a host (season 2 in production) of Bafta, Emmy®, IFTA and Annie nominations for their hit shows • Bing: 78 x 7-minute TV series Octonauts, Doc McStuffins and Henry Hugglemonster. (in production) Brown Bag Films® are committed to producing the highest • Anya: 5-minute short film quality cross-platform animation with strong stories and engaging (premiered May 2014) Caboom characters. Founded and managed by animators Cathal Gaffney • Ode to Love: 7-minute short film and Darragh O’Connell, Brown Bag Films® is one of Ireland’s (in production, premiering Caboom is a multi-disciplinary business success stories, now employing over 160 full-time staff. July 2014) production company based in Dublin and LA. Working in live-action, puppetry and animation, the company draws on more than 20 years’ experience to produce award-winning content for creatively Special 1 TV ambitious clients. Caboom’s work is broad and varied, from animation series for the web to live-action commercials; animated content for apps and games Octonauts to live-action comedy series. Clients include Disney, TBS, RTÉ, CBBC, BBC, Fox, Warners, American Greetings, Mattel and the Jim Henson Company. The company is best known for its puppet series Special 1 TV, which has aired internationally on TV and online and has earned the company a YouTube Bing Toad Rules partnership for its unique use of social media to build and engage an audience. Brown Bag Films Cathal Gaffney, CEO Caboom Damien Farrell, Creative Director 6 [email protected] +353 (0)1 872 1608 www.brownbagfilms.com [email protected] www.caboom.ie 7 Dancing Girl Productions Dancing Girl Productions was established by veteran animation and live-action producers Maeve McAdam and Villi Ragnarsson and has offices in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Because of this, the company is in a unique position to source funding. Dancing Girl Productions is focused on developing and producing long-running animation series and live-action projects for the domestic and international film and TV markets. Joe & Jack Song of the Sea CURRENT PROJECTS • Joe & Jack 2: 78 x 7 minutes. The second season of the internationally Dancing Girl Productions successful animated preschool series Maeve McAdam, Villi Ragnarsson, Producers CURRENT PROJECTS (late development) [email protected] Cartoon Saloon • Song of the Sea: animated feature +353 (0)86 173 8048/+44 (0)2892 290040 The Academy Award® nominated animation studio directed by Tomm Moore Cartoon Saloon was set up in 1999 by Tomm Moore, Paul (release late-2014) Young and Nora Twomey. With award-winning short films • The Prophet: animated feature with such as From Darkness, Cúilín Dualach/Backwards Boy, “chapters” by directors from around Old Fangs and The Ledge End of Phil (from accounting) to the world (in production) Double Z TV series like Skunk Fu! (broadcast in over 120 territories) • Puffin Rock: animated cross-platform and Puffin Rock (due for broadcast with Nick Jr UK in preschool series in partnership with Enterprises 2015), Cartoon Saloon has carved a special place in the Dog Ears and Penguin (in production) international animation industry.