In the event of a dispute or difficulty of interpretation as to whether an audiovisual work belongs to a particular genre, the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée may consult the specialised committee responsible for awarding selective grants.
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.
The granting of aid is subject to an initial decision taken after consulting the relevant specialised committee.This decision establishes the principle of granting aid and sets the amount. It is taken before any payment is made.
To obtain a decision in principle, the application must be submitted at least one month before the date of the committee meeting at which the production company wishes its application to be examined.
The granting of aid, the principle of which has been accepted, is subject to the issue of authorisations. Prior authorisation is issued before the work is completed. It sets out the terms and conditions for payment of the grant. A final authorisation is issued once the work has been completed. This authorisation constitutes the final decision to award the grant. It establishes, where applicable, eligibility for the bonuses or increases…
The production company has one year from notification of the decision in principle to obtain prior authorisation. If it fails to do so, the production company will forfeit its right to obtain payment of the aid.In exceptional circumstances and at the reasoned request of the production company, the aforementioned deadline may be extended for a period not exceeding six months, by decision of the President of the Centre national du…
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