Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Selective financial aid is awarded to production companies for the development of a finished version of a creative documentary project for which writing aid has been granted.

To be eligible for development aid, production companies must meet the following conditions:1° Be established in France;2° Have chairmen, directors or managers, as well as the majority of their directors, who are French nationals or assimilated;3° Not be controlled by one or more natural or legal persons who are nationals of States other than European States, when they are constituted in the form of a commercial company.

Production companies must:1° Have signed an audiovisual production contract with one or more authors;2° Make a personal contribution to financing the development of the project, by making a cash contribution equal to at least 20% of the amount of aid awarded.