Until the date of cessation of the state of health emergency declared by article 4 of emergency law no. 2020-290 of 23 March 2020 to deal with the covid-19 epidemic, the sums held in the automatic accounts mentioned in 1°, 2°, 3°, 4°, 5° and 7° of article 123-2 opened respectively in the name of film production companies, in the name of film distribution companies, in the name of cinematographic…
Until the date of cessation of the state of health emergency declared by article 1 of decree no. 2020-1257 of 14 October 2020 declaring a state of health emergency and extended until 16 February 2021 inclusive by article 1 of law no. 2020-1379 of 14 November 2020 authorising the extension of the state of health emergency and introducing various measures to manage the health crisis, the sums held in the…
By way of derogation from article 211-6, works initially intended for initial screening in cinemas and which, due to the ban on admission to cinemas, are subject, until the end of the state of health emergency declared by article 4 of law no. 2020-290 of 23 March 2020 on the emergency response to the covid-19 epidemic, first made available on an on-demand pay-per-view audiovisual media service or on a service…
In order to help limit the risk of cinemas becoming overcrowded when they reopen to the public due to the very large number of works whose exhibition has been prevented because of the measures banning admission to the public, works whose first form of exhibition is not the cinemas for which they were initially intended may, by way of derogation from article 211-6, be considered eligible for financial assistance for…
In order to encourage the resumption of filming of cinematographic or audiovisual works, a compensation fund is set up to contribute, through the payment of financial aid to delegated production companies, to the cost of losses linked to the covid-19 epidemic, leading, until 31 March 2023, to the interruption, postponement or abandonment of film shoots taking place on national territory or, under the conditions set out in the seventh paragraph…
A delegated production company wishing to receive assistance from the compensation fund in the event of an incident during filming must have joined the fund prior to the incident and any request for assistance.To this end, the delegated production company fills in, electronically, a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, accompanied by the insurance contract it has taken out for the work concerned,…
In order to be eligible for support from the compensation fund, delegated production companies must meet the eligibility conditions laid down, depending on the case, for the award of financial support for the production of feature films, the production of audiovisual works or the production of short films or audiovisual works.
The cinematographic or audiovisual works for which the occurrence of a loss may give rise to the allocation of aid from the compensation fund meet the following conditions:1° Be eligible, depending on the case, for financial aid for the production of feature-length cinematographic works, the production of audiovisual works or the production of short-length cinematographic or audiovisual works;2° Be produced :a) Either solely by one or more production companies established…
Assistance from the compensation fund is granted:1° When the interruption in the filming of a cinematographic or audiovisual work is the direct result of one of the following events:a) One or more persons essential to the filming of the work, as designated in the insurance contract, are affected by the covid-19 virus;b) The stoppage of all or part of the production team due to cases of the covid-19 virus in…
The amount of the additional cost incurred by the interruption, postponement or abandonment referred to in article 913-5, borne by the delegated production company, is determined by the expert appointed by the production company in the form referred to in article 913-2, by reference, as appropriate, to the expenses covered by the insurance contract taken out for the work concerned either under the guarantee relating to the unavailability of persons,…
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