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Digital Comedy Lab is an incubation program for film projects in the comedy mockumentary genre for the new YouTube generation, providing support in the following areas: training, script development, production financing and distribution.

Digital Comedy Lab will select 6 new comedy creators or comedians in Ireland and provide them with the training and the tools to allow this pool of talent to produce and successfully distribute content on the new digital platforms.

The Digital Comedy Lab is produced by beActive (the digital studio behind Sofia’s Diary, Flatmates, 350 South and the Emmy nominated Final Punishment) in partnership with Filmbase, and Setanta Sports. It’s open to comedy writers, actors, comedians, producers and/or directors who believe that they have an idea that could be the next Borat, The Office or This is Spinal Tap – applications open from today until the 31st of January 2012 to be part of Digital Comedy Lab.

From the applications received, a judging panel will select 6 projects to enter the training and mentoring programme and one of these will get production funding to shoot a low cost digital feature film during Summer 2012 to be screened to an Irish audience by early 2013. The winning project will be announced at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Details for the lab are available on-line now at digitalcomedylab.com