Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Selective financial aid is awarded to production companies for the development of long-term film projects.

Production companies that have already produced, as delegated production companies, over the four years preceding the application, at least three French-initiative feature-length cinematographic works for which investment approval has been granted, may submit up to four projects simultaneously under a development programme.Other production companies may submit one project or two projects simultaneously, provided that they have already produced, as delegated production companies, at least one feature-length film or a significant…

Project development grants are awarded on the basis of the quality of the projects, their artistic ambition and their viability, as well as the experience and results of the production companies and their approach and commitment to project development.

A project receiving development aid may not receive script rewriting aid.Unless an exception is made, the same project may not simultaneously be the subject of an application for project development aid and an application for pre-production production aid.