Chapter I: Purpose and award conditions

To be eligible for support for authorship, authors must provide proof of:
1° Writing or directing a work that has been supported by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée;
2° Artistic experience. The following are considered artistic experience:
a) Writing or directing a feature-length film selected at a festival in the ten years preceding the application;
b) Writing or directing two short films selected at a festival in the ten years preceding the application;
c) Writing or directing two single-length audiovisual works of 52 minutes or less broadcast on a television service or made available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service during the ten years preceding the application;
d) Writing or directing a single audiovisual work lasting more than fifty-two minutes broadcast on a television service or made available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service during the ten years preceding the application;
e) The writing or directing of one or more episodes of a cumulative duration of at least fifty-two minutes in one or more seasons of one or more audiovisual works in series form, broadcast on a television service or made available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service over the ten years preceding the application;
f) The writing or directing of two immersive works selected, over the ten years preceding the application, at one of the following festivals: Tribeca, Sundance, New York and New York: Tribeca, Sundance, New Images or the Venice Mostra;
g) Writing or directing five audiovisual works made available to the public free of charge on a digital channel with at least 50,000 subscribers;
h) Writing or directing two video games marketed in the ten years preceding the application;
i) Writing or directing two theatrical works with at least twenty commercial performances in the last five years;
j) Writing or directing two radio works in the fiction or creative documentary genre, broadcast or made available to the public online on a service that has signed a general performance contract with a collective management organisation in the last three years;
k) Writing two literary works published by a publisher in the last three years under a publishing contract.
When the application is submitted by two authors, at least one of them must provide proof of this artistic experience.