Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Selective financial aid is awarded to production companies that do not hold an automatic audiovisual production account for the production of audiovisual works that belong to one of the following genres: 1° Fiction; 2° Animation; 3° Creative documentary; 4° Audiovisual adaptation of a live performance. However, this aid is not granted for the production of unitary audiovisual works lasting one hour or less, with the exception of works belonging to…

Selective financial aid is also awarded to production companies, whether or not they hold an automatic audiovisual production account, for the production of audiovisual works in the following genres: 1° Creative documentaries. Eligible creative documentaries are those that: a) Are financed by an hourly contribution in cash from one or more television service publishers or one or more on-demand audiovisual media service publishers, meeting the conditions laid down in 1°…

For works belonging to the creative documentary genre, where the hourly cash contribution from the television service publisher(s) meeting the condition laid down in 1° of Article 311-8 is less than €12,000, the initial contribution provided for in this article and in article 311-9 is made, for at least 50% of its amount, in the form of a contract for the purchase of broadcasting rights or making them available to…

Aid recipients are production companies which, in addition to the general conditions mentioned in article 311-3, meet the following conditions: 1° Be independent of any publisher of television services and any publisher of on-demand audiovisual media services, according to the following criteria: a) The service publisher does not hold, directly or indirectly, more than 15% of the share capital or voting rights of the production company; b) The production company…

Grants are awarded on the basis of the artistic quality of the projects submitted and the economic conditions of their production.