Article 311-1 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code
November 7, 2023
Automatic financial aid and selective financial aid are awarded to support the production and preparation of audiovisual works.
Automatic financial aid and selective financial aid are awarded to support the production and preparation of audiovisual works.
The beneficiaries of financial aid for the production and preparation of audiovisual works are production companies.
To be eligible for financial aid for the production and preparation of audiovisual works, production companies must meet the following conditions:1° Be established in France;2° Have chairmen, directors or managers as well as the majority of directors who are French nationals or equivalent;3° Not be controlled by one or more natural or legal persons who are nationals of States other than European States, when they are established in the form…
Television service publishers and on-demand audiovisual media service publishers are not eligible for financial support for the production and preparation of audiovisual works.Public establishments and their subsidiaries are not eligible for selective financial support.
Audiovisual works with a heritage vocation that are of particular cultural, social, scientific, technical or economic interest and that belong to one of the following genres are eligible for financial support for production and preparation:1° Fiction;2° Animation;3° Creative documentary;4° Audiovisual adaptation of a live performance;5° Magazine of particular interest of an essentially cultural nature;6° Videomusic.The works must be exploited in a manner consistent with their heritage purpose.
Audiovisual works intended to promote other audiovisual works, or cinematographic or multimedia works, or which are only incidental thereto, are not eligible for financial support for production and preparation.
Audiovisual works eligible for automatic and selective financial support are works intended:1° Either for initial broadcast on a television service;2° Or for initial availability to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service.The condition of initial broadcast or initial availability to the public is not required for the eligibility of audiovisual works for automatic support for the preparation and production of music videos.
To be eligible for automatic and selective financial support, audiovisual works must be financed by an initial contribution from one or more television service or on-demand audiovisual media service publishers meeting the following conditions:1° With regard to television service publishers:a) Where the publisher is established in France, it is subject to the tax provided for in article L. 115-6 of the Code du cinéma et de l’image animée and its…
The initial contribution gives rise to the conclusion of a contract with the delegated production company before the end of the shooting or before the end of the production of the animation for works belonging to the animation genre or before the start of editing for works composed entirely of pre-existing images. However, where the contract has not yet been concluded, the initial contribution may, on a provisional basis, give…
By way of derogation from article 311-9, for the benefit of automatic aid, the minimum proportion of the initial contribution is reduced to: 1° 15% for works in the animation genre that meet the following conditions: a) Be the subject of international pre-sales contracts for an amount at least equal to the difference between the amount of the initial contribution that would result from the application of a minimum proportion…
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