Article 919-57 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code
November 7, 2023
The decision of the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée specifies the amount of aid awarded and the terms of payment.
The decision of the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée specifies the amount of aid awarded and the terms of payment.
The granting of exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty, in particular those provided for in Chapter I and Article 54 of Section 11 relating to aid schemes for audiovisual works.
In order to take account of the difficulties of investment linked to the deteriorated conditions in which cinematographic works are shown in cinemas and to encourage the distribution of new works, sums are exceptionally entered into the automatic account of distribution companies.
For each distribution company, the amount of the sums entered on an exceptional basis is equivalent to the amount of the sums entered on its automatic account which lapsed on 31 December 2021 pursuant to 2° of article 123-8, excluding those which benefited from the extension provided for in article 916-12.
Distribution companies may only invest the sums exceptionally entered in their automatic accounts until 31 December 2022. Failing this, the distribution companies will lose their right to invest them.
The period for calculating the sums entered in the automatic account provided for in the second paragraph of article 222-3 is extended by one year for cinematographic works for which this period has expired in 2021 and which have been shown in cinemas after this expiry during the same year.
For cinematographic works shown in cinemas in 2021:1° By way of derogation from 4° of article 222-19, the maximum number of cinemas is increased to two hundred and fifty;2° By way of derogation from 5° of the same article, the minimum amount of final distribution expenditure is reduced to €30,000;3° By way of derogation from the first paragraph of 2° of article 222-20, distribution companies may submit their file to…
Difficult works are considered to be cinematographic works for which it is justified that there are particular difficulties in distributing them in cinemas due to abnormal market conditions linked to the significant drop in attendance at cinemas in the context of the end of the health crisis.Derogations to the conditions relating to the intensity of public aid provided for in articles 221-5 and 221-6 may be granted for these works…
For direct grants awarded in 2023 in application of article 221-14, the ceiling on the total amount of grants awarded to a single distribution company, mentioned in article 221-15, is raised to €237,000 for cinematographic works with a production cost of less than €4,000,000 and to €332,000 for cinematographic works with a production cost of €4,000,000 or more and less than €8,000,000.This article applies to direct grants awarded for the…
Exceptional aid is allocated in the form of a direct grant to help compensate for the drop in activity suffered by programming groups and agreements within the meaning of article L. 212-19 of the Code du cinéma et de l’image animée (French Cinema and Moving Image Code) as a result of measures restricting or prohibiting the admission of the public to the cinematographic establishments for which they are responsible for…
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