Carol Moore Films

Carol co-founded Charabanc Theatre Company in 1983 and remained a co-Artistic Director and actress with the company until its closure in 1995. Charabanc toured extensively throughout Ireland and the UK as well as North America, Russia and Germany. Carol has been an actress for 25 years and was nominated Best Actress in the 1988 European Film Awards for her role as the 'model' in Reefer and the Model. Theatre directing credits include The Liverpool Boat by Maurice Bessman and Marie Jones, 1974 - The End of the Year Show by Damian Gorman, The Factory Girls by Frank McGuinness and The Cavalcaders by Billy Roach. She also acted as Creative Consultant to Red Lead Arts from 2002- 2006.

Her first short film Gort na gCnámh won four awards in 1998 including Best First Time Director at the Celtic Film Festival and Foyle Film Festival. Carol received a NESTA fellowship in 2005 for two and half years to enable her to explore and develop her ideas surrounding cultural diversity in Northern Ireland, through her practice of theatre and film-making. This work included two shorts entitled Are you seeing me? and This Belfast Thing. Carol's 50 minute documentary entitled The Farther, The Dearer about a migrant worker from Latvia has just been screened at the Belfast Film Festival and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana and soon to be screened at the San Joaquin Film Festival, California. In February Carol's short film History Unfinished was the Northern Ireland regional winner of the BAFTA 60 SEC 2008 film competition. Carol is currently developing a theatre piece using dance and film about a female migrant worker from Poland.

NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. They are the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Their mission is to transform the UK's capacity for innovation. NESTA also invests in early stage companies, informs innovation policy and encourages a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
From 1998 NESTA's Fellowship Programme enhanced and stimulated the creativity and innovation of talented individuals throughout the UK working across Science, Technology and the Arts. The Programme was founded on the principle that there is a wealth of talent across the nations and regions that, for one reason or another, was at risk of going unnoticed, unsupported, struggling, taking longer than necessary to develop or was in danger of going overseas. The Fellowship Programme aimed to uncover this talent and give it the right support at the right time.

Fellows are committed to generating original and innovative ideas, techniques and/or methodology and potentially pushing at the boundaries of their field; Fellows very often look at the interface of Science, Technology and the Arts because some of the most exciting work takes place at the boundaries. The multifaceted Fellowship programme was tailor made to support awardees and help in bringing down barriers facing highly creative individuals in the UK. The programme was designed to offer time, space and resources to enable awardees to embark on highly individual development plans, supplemented by mentor support and guidance.