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News release 17/02/2010


I deasTap has launched its Ideas Fund Shorts, £40,000-worth of funding to help young people realise short film projects.

Recognising the wealth of talented young filmmakers in the UK, IdeasTap is offering eight awards of £5,000 each for the most original, engaging ideas. Entries must be for films no longer than five minutes and can include documentaries, conceptual pieces, trailers for features, music videos, fashion films and animated shorts.

Aiming to make the funding process easier for young people, the Ideas Fund is dedicated to providing opportunities for up-and-coming talent.

Opens: 15th February 2010
Closes: 29th March 2010

Ideas Fund Shorts is part of IdeasTap’s annual £150,000 Ideas Fund that first launched in June 2009. The awards are open to 16-25-year-old UK filmmakers.

The latest round of Ideas Fund Innovators also launches today: ten awards of £1,000 each for ideas from any creative discipline. This fund is now open year-round, with four deadlines for submissions. Innovators is open to 16-25s and aims to help those at the beginning of their creative careers to take their projects to the next stage.

Opens: 15th February 2010
Closes: 29th March 2010 (at which point the next round of Innovators will open)

About IdeasTap

IdeasTap is a creative network and funding body for emerging arts talent. A not-for-profit organisation, IdeasTap brings creative people together and offers cash funding, exclusive opportunities and a platform to showcase new work.

The website first launched in December 2008, but a new, improved version of the site will launch later this year. The membership currently stands at more than 19,000 young practitioners from a diverse range of creative disciplines. IdeasTap is the brainchild of philanthropist Peter De Haan.

For details and to apply please visit www.ideastap.com.

Ideas Fund

Ideas Fund is the annual £150,000 funding programme from IdeasTap. It is a financial and mentoring award that recognises and celebrates young creative talent, and anyone between the ages of 16 and 25 can apply. The fund is split into two parts – Innovators, which offers grants of £1,000 and is open all year and Themed Awards, which offer larger grants three times a year around a specific theme. The previous themed fund was based around Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and this year will see the first IdeasTap-funded play being performed at the festival.

Future Funding Dates

Ideas Fund Innovators Opens: 29th March 2010
Closes: 30th June 2010

Ideas Fund Themed Award (TBC) Opens: 1st June 2010
Closes: 16th July 2010

Ideas Fund Innovators Opens: 30th June 2010
Closes: 30th September 2010

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