Elaine McElroy

Elaine is Project Manager for the UK Global Screen Fund at the BFI. Her role includes assessing the financial elements of applications to all the funding strands, including the International Co-production fund. She was previously Production Executive for the Young Audiences Content Fund and is an external assessor for Coimisiún na Meán’s Sound & Vision Scheme in Ireland. Her background is primarily in children’s television and animation production, as a script editor, line producer and development producer. She was Script Editor on Series 3 of Go Jetters, on comedy education series Ask Lara, and on Toot the Tiny Tugboat; and was a Development and Animation producer at Red Kite Animation, Super Umami and Once Were Farmers in Scotland, before moving to Manchester in 2018, where she has also worked for BBC Children’s and Kilogramme Animation.