NW filmsenabled bynew UlsterScots fund

Nearly forty films, series or digital products including Stumpy’s Brae and The Siege, have been funded since the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund was established in 2010.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 9th Nov 2014, 09:24 BST
Darren Gibson, from Eglinton, who scripted Stumpy's Brae, alongside Lalor Roddy, who played Stumpy.Darren Gibson, from Eglinton, who scripted Stumpy's Brae, alongside Lalor Roddy, who played Stumpy.
Darren Gibson, from Eglinton, who scripted Stumpy's Brae, alongside Lalor Roddy, who played Stumpy.

Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín said the USBF supported Pipe Dreamers, Paul and Nick’s Big Food Trip, The Siege, The Ulster Covenant, Tattoo Debut and Santer, Series 2, in its first year of existence.

In 2011/12 it backed Mapping Ulster, Written in Stone, Forgotten Revolutionary: Francis Hutcheson, An Independent People, an Interactive Ulster-Scots Heritage Trail, Ulster’s Forgotten Radical, An Ode to Burns, The Extraordinary Life of Castlereagh, 12 Miles - The Narrow Sea, The Man Who Shrank the World and Reader of Rabbie.

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In 2012/13 Ulster Unearthed, Santer Series 3, The Santer Sessions, Paul and Nicks Big Food Trip Series 2, Our Friends in the North, Five Fables, Tim McGarry’s Ulster Scots Journey, Life Stories Amy Carmichael and Brave New World: New Zealand were the beneficiaries.

Stumpy’s Brae, In Search of Richard Hayward, Then Sings My Soul, The Gaitherin, Imagining Ulster, Paul and Nick’s Big American Food Trip and a Five Fables application benefitted in 2013/14.

And in 2014/15 the recipients were Brave New World: Canada, The Radical World of William Tennent, Minding our Language and A Rebel Heart: Mary-Ann McCracken.