Media Cymru Innovation Pipeline makes £10,000 available to creators in Wales

Media Cymru is keen to receive applications from creators operating in a range of disciplines and industries, with particular interest in ideas relating to virtual production, new formats and ways of creating content, gaming, immersive storytelling, bilingual production, and fresh approaches to delivering the news.

Media Cymru is a 23-partner Consortium, including Ffilm Cymru Wales, and projects from those member organisations include making the screen industry more environmentally sustainable, addressing issues relating to diversity in film and TV, and a focus on future skills needs and increasing efficiencies with emerging technologies.

Creative Wales, an economic development agency within Welsh Government which promotes the growth of Wales’s creative industries, is a member of the Media Cymru Consortium.

Dawn Bowden, the Welsh Government’s Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport said: “We know that Wales is home to creators and producers who make a huge contribution to our economy and our international profile. In line with our Programme for Government commitment to support more R&D in the creative sector, the Welsh Government through Creative Wales is supporting Media Cymru to ensure that initiatives such as this seed fund enable further Welsh talents to develop new innovations.

“This seeding fund is more than launchpad for new ideas. It represents an investment that will deliver real returns for our economy and society, as Wales becomes an international hub for innovation in the creative industries.”

Media Cymru aims to strengthen the economic contribution of media activities in the CCR, creating millions of additional turnover across the next five years, hundreds of jobs and supporting the creation of new start-ups in the media sector.

The collaboration is led by Cardiff University, with government funding provided through UK Research and Innovation’s flagship Strength in Places Fund, Welsh Government through Creative Wales, additional support from Cardiff Council, industry and university partners, as well as the CCR City Deal.

The CCR covers the ten local authorities of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend County Borough, Caerphilly County Borough, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen, and Vale of Glamorgan, and includes some of the country’s most deprived areas. Those wishing to apply for seed funding and the Media Cymru Innovation Pipeline should visit www.media.cymru.

If you require advice on whether you are eligible, or would like to book a 121 meeting with a member of the Media Cymru team, please contact media.cymru@cardiff.ac.uk.