Chapter I: Financial aid for the production and preparation of feature films

A committee is responsible for examining applications for pre-production support submitted for a director’s first feature-length film. It has seven members, including two co-chairmen.

A committee is responsible for examining applications for pre-production support for a director’s second or third feature film. It has seven members, including two co-chairmen.

A commission is responsible for examining applications for pre-production aid other than those mentioned in articles 211-142 and 211-143. It is made up of seven members, including two co-presidents. .

A committee is responsible for examining applications for post-completion grants. It has thirteen members, including two co-chairmen.

Each committee is co-chaired by the same number of members.

Committee members are appointed for a renewable term of one year. Their term of office begins on 1 January of each year.

At each committee meeting, the co-chairmen shall decide which of them shall have the casting vote in the event of a tie.If one of the co-chairmen is absent, he shall be replaced by another member of the committee concerned, whether a full member or an alternate. The co-chairman present at the meeting has the casting vote in the event of a tie.

I.-1° The reading committees responsible for selecting projects concerning a director’s first feature-length cinematographic work are made up of the co-presidents of the committee provided for in article 211-142, one other member of this committee, whether full or alternate, and two readers chosen from a list drawn up by the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée; 2° The reading committees responsible for selecting projects for…

The agenda for the meetings and, for the reading committees referred to in 1° of I of Article 211-149, the choice of readers for each committee, are set by the committee secretariat.