The Irish investment adviser BCP is seeking backers for a new €5m film finance scheme to be launched in May.

The initiative follows the success of a previous fund, which was run by BCP with Grant Thornton and matures next month. Launched in 2015, the latter scheme helped finance projects including the Ifta-winning Cardboard Gangsters, starring John Connors

and Kierston Wareing, pictured, and international co-productions such as Pilgrimage and The Lodgers. In total it lent over €11m to 34 films and TV series.

The fund recently agreed to help finance a Cartoon Saloon project based on the Pete the Cat book series.

BCP has been working with Grant Thornton’s media team, which has emerged as one of the largest providers of financial services to the