Call for EU or Balkan Writer for Sonic Bridges Short Film Project
Are you a writer, poet, lyricist or librettist from the Balkans or EU and want to explore identity through the fragile and powerful role of language? Apply for Moving Classics: Sonic Bridges call for a paid opportunity in Ireland.
This paid opportunity from the Creative Europe supported project, Moving Classics: Sonic Bridges (MCSB), to co-create an art film in Ireland exploring language as a bond and a barrier with a composer and film maker telling the stories of our experiences, communities and countries. This opportunity is for artists based in an EU country outside of Ireland or in the Balkans.
Building on the 2014-2016 Creative Europe project ‘Moving Classics’ and the 2018-2022 'Sonic Flux' our new project Moving Classics: Sonic Bridges (MCSB) is a project that will be creatively inspired by the Skopje 2028 theme ‘Culture over Diversity.' Working with personal testimony, original music and AV/Film installations it will connect writers, musicians and AV/film artists with production teams to explore modern European identity at the edges.
About the Call
This is an opportunity for an EU or Balkan based writer to create a spoken word or sung piece for the 10-13 minute film being created as the output for the first MCSB commission in collaboration with a film maker and composer in Ireland. the use of personal, official and unofficial archives is encouraged rooting the storytelling in lived experience of the changing power of language in relation to changing location.
- 10 day residency in Ireland over two visits.
- Film finalised by spring 2027
- Artist Fee: €3,000 plus travel, accommodation and production budget
- This project focuses particularly on narratives of minority or immigrating languages, and so we encourage applications from artists with lived experience.
- Eligible artists must reside in and have permission to work in Creative Europe participating countries
- Deliverables: Completed script / Narrative / Written aspect of collaborative short film
- Deadline: 27th July - the application form will close at noon GMT.
Supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and Arts Council Ireland.
Find out more and apply on Moving Classics: Sonic Bridges website.