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 the production and preparation of long-run cinematographic works.
Delegated production companies may benefit from the provisions of the previous paragraph if they submit a request no later than three months after the date on which the ban on admission to cinemas ceases.
The request must be sent to the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée by electronic means. It must be accompanied by a sworn statement to the effect that the delegated production company has obtained the agreement of the authors, co-producers, distributor and companies with which it has concluded a financing contract for the production of the work for a first form of exhibition other than cinemas, as well as the agreement of the co-producers and the aforementioned companies with regard to subsequent windows of exhibition.