Abstract
Producers in Europe spend too little on development, screenwriters are underpaid and scripts underwritten. David Kavanagh, Board Member, Scriptwriters Federation in Europe and former Director, European Script Fund. (cited by Flynn, 1995) This chapter explores the global and local influences on the working relationship between Irish screenwriters and the Irish Film Board (Bord Scannan na hEireann), through scrutinising the balance of power and authority between the institution and the writer. In examining this topic, key questions are identified, teased out and framed against the backdrop of ongoing research into cultural policy and the Irish Film Board (IFB) (e.g. O’Connell (2010) and O’Connell (2012)). Through a survey of support systems for the script development process at the IFB and how these policies were changed, developed and enacted in the past decade, the chapter seeks to establish to what extent the IFB has a ‘writer-friendly’ institutional approach, serving the needs of the screenwriter in particular.
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