Paragraph 2: Residence grants

Selective financial aid is awarded jointly to writer-directors and creative residencies, in the form of a residency grant, for the rewriting of the script of a short film, when it is the writer-director’s first or second work.

The granting of aid is the subject of two decisions:1° A provisional decision accepting the principle of granting aid;2° A definitive decision to grant aid once the amount of aid has been determined.

The amount of aid is determined following the opinion of the costing committee mentioned in article 411-28.

In order to obtain a final decision on the award of a residency grant, the writer-director must submit, within eighteen months of the provisional decision, a letter of agreement for a residency, setting out his or her programme and co-signed by the writer-director and the residency.

The final award decision sets out the breakdown between the share paid to the writer-director and the share paid to the residence.

The writer-director has twelve months from the date of the final award to submit to the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée a report on the residency, a rewriting note, the reworked script and a report drawn up by the residency.In exceptional circumstances and at the reasoned request of the writer-director, this period may be extended for a period not exceeding six months by decision of the President…