Resources

Business Affairs

SPI recognises the complex role of creative entrepreneur and to help support our members we provides a range of supports in relation to business affairs; including information and template documents relating to legal and financial management of productions contracting, co-production, and licencing as well as helpful links for legal and accounting information. You can also find links to for specialist advice in the Industry Links portion of our website. 

Funders and Funding

There are multiple sources of funding for both English and Irish language productions in Ireland.  From our Public Service Media, RTÉ and TG4, Coimisiún na Meán Sound and Vision Scheme, National screen agency – Screen Ireland, regional funding from the WRAP Fund and European funding from Creative Media Europe. There is also the Film and TV tax credit Section 481 which is applicable to a wide section of genres. Find out more about these opportunities here.

Human Resources 

SPI negotiates and oversees the implementation of Union agreements with the ICTU affiliated sectoral Unions. In addition to this we provide support to members in ensuring that their internal HR policies and procedures are up to date and compliant with legislation. This section provides a suite of template HR documents, up to date information on SPI/Union agreements, and information on IR/HR best practice, as well as helpful links. You can also find links to specialist HR consultants in the Industry Links portion of our website. 

Compliance

SPI supports its members in ensuring they are providing a safe work environment with necessary protection in place for employees. In order to support this, we provide information and documents relating to Health and Safety, Data Protection, Child Welfare, Covid-19 and other compliance requirements, as well as helpful links. You can also find links to specialist H&S providers in the Industry Links portion of our website. 

ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) 

It is more critical than ever that the sector plays a leading role in sustainability, diversity, and inclusion and that this is unpinned by good corporate governance and oversight. In order to support this work and to help members lead on this within their own companies SPI provides template documents, best practice information and sample policies on topics such as Diversity and Inclusion and sustainable production, as well as helpful links. 

Policy & Research

SPI is the leading voice of policy in the Irish Creative Screen Sector. We submit policy papers, on a wide variety of screen sector issues, which are intended to stimulate action in order to sustain and grow the Irish production sector. This section contains these policy papers, along with, other research documents that set out the situation in the Irish sector, as well as the European.  

Resources for individuals arriving from Ukraine

Welcome / Ласкаво просимо / добро пожаловат

If you’ve recently arrived in Ireland from Ukraine, we can assist with making contacts, building a network, navigating the sector in Ireland, looking for work, or even just introduce you to people to grab a cup of coffee with, or answer questions.

More information about Screen Producers Ireland, Animation Ireland and the sector can be found below. Read more here.

Member Opportunities

This section contains co-production opportunities from companies outside of Ireland. Please click on each document to view a brief description of the project and requirements, and if you are interested get in touch with the company directly to find out more.

If you are a company that is looking for an Irish co-production partner and would like us to post an opportunity, please provide information as per this template to info@screenproducersireland.com and we can list it in this section.

Annual Reports

Our most recent annual reports are available to our members and can be found in this section.