Creative Europe Desk Ireland - MEDIA Office

09/10/2025

Congratulations to CHRISTY writer Alan O'Gorman and director Brendan Canty on their LUX Audience Award 2026 nomination!

Christy, Deaf, It Was Just an Accident, Love Me Tender and Sentimental Value are 5 films nominated for the 2026 LUX Audience Award. Watch the five films nominated for the 2026 LUX Audience Award and rate them from one (poor) to five stars (excellent) to decide the winner.

Rate before April 2026 and don't miss the chance to win a range of exciting prizes, including a trip to the European Parliament in Brussels to attend the LUX Award Ceremony in April 2026 and meet directors and film crews of the nominees.

https://lux-award.europarl.europa.eu/en

02/10/2025

First 2026 MEDIA calls now open!

European Slate Development 3/12/25
TV + Online Content 3/12/25
Video Games & Immersive Content 11/2/26
European Co-development 26/2/26
Markets & Networking 20/1/26
Innovative Tools & Business Models 16/1/26

www.creativeeuropeireland.eu/funding-opportunities/media

Links in Bio / Linktree / website.

02/10/2025

Join us on Friday 10th October at 9:00am Irish time for a webinar with media analyst & author Johanna Koljonen as she presents the 2025 edition of the Nostradamus Report from

Link in Bio to register.

Organised by Creative Europe Desk Finland (MEDIA) in co-operation with Creative Europe Desks from Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Munich, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden.

02/10/2025

Nostradamus Report Webinar, Reality/Resistance with Johanna Koljonen, 10th October.

Creative Europe Desk Finland - MEDIA in co-operation with MEDIA Desk teams in eleven countries will host a joint online event to present and discuss the key findings of the recently published 2025 Nostradamus Report from the Göteborg Film Festival.

Nostradamus Report 2025: Reality/Resistance with Johanna Koljonen. Friday 10th October at 9am Irish time.

Register for the Nostradamus Report webinar on Teams: https://tinyurl.com/bdfhbhef

02/10/2025

Creative Europe Desk Ireland is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated part-time Administrative Assistant to join our team. Link in Bio for full details.

Creative Europe is the European Commission's flagship programme to support the culture and audiovisual sectors. Creative Europe Desk Ireland supports the Irish Creative and Cultural Sectors in navigating European funding opportunities and comprises 3 small information offices - MEDIA Office Dublin, MEDIA Office Galway and the Culture Office which have 1-3 people per office.

The Administrative Assistant will work within MEDIA Office Dublin but will at times assist operations across the other two offices. The position will be flexible in terms of hybrid working. Apply by email: [email protected]

Deadline: 3rd October 2025.

02/10/2025

The first Creative Europe MEDIA calls for 2026 are open!

From development to distribution, business support to audience building, the MEDIA programme is here to strengthen the European audiovisual sectors and bring stories to audiences across Europe and beyond.

📅 Check, explore the opportunities, and prepare your applications.

🔗 Full details available here: https://link.europa.eu/6cCKGb

16/09/2025

For emerging EU producers and story editors who want to strengthen their project development skills.

Apply for LIM Less is More by 15th October.

Supported by Creative Europe MEDIA.

LIM becomes LIM² [Call for projects]

Here we go!
Call for projects for LIM² 2026, The European development programme for committed filmmakers in a changing world, is open until 15 October 2025, noon CET!

LIM² will offer around 50 projects the opportunity to take part in a cycle of three online workshops in January/February 2026.
These sessions provide access to the LIM² Toolbox and its innovative methods aimed at strengthening the ideation phase and advancing the development of audiovisual projects.

For 16 of these projects, LIM offers an eight-month online & on-site programme, including:
- Three one-week, in-person workshops and a series of online meetings held between March and October 2026
- A tailor-made Showcase Event, LIM² MEET connecting participants with industry professionals from across Europe
Participants will work closely with experienced European tutors and script consultants (The Dancing Partners) to refine their projects in the first stage of the development process.

Submit your feature film project for LIM² 2026 : https://lim-lessismore.eu/how-to-apply/writers-directors/

🤝 LIM is supported by Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, led by Le Groupe Ouest (France), developed with Asociatia Culturala Control N (Romania), Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Belgium), and Krakow Festival Office (Poland), in partnership with Région Bretagne (France), focal Film Training (Switzerland), MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and the NordicNest, Fís Éireann Screen Ireland (Ireland), as well as Ffilm Cymru Wales (Wales) and the Baltics Film Centres (Lietuvos kino centras (Lithuania), Eesti filmi instituut (Estonia), Kino centrs (Latvia)).

12/09/2025

Apply for the ACE Producers 7th edition of the ACE Animation Special, taking place between 17th and 22nd March 2026 in Di**le, Ireland.

For more information, sign up for an online information session on 30th September.

Find out more: https://ace-producers.com/specials/animation-special/

ACE Animation is supported by Creative Europe, Screen Ireland, Netherlands Film Fund, and in partnership with Animation Di**le.

12/09/2025