Chapter III: Provisions relating to the compensation fund for the interruption or abandonment of film or audiovisual shoots due to the covid-19 epidemic

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 this team prevents the filming of the work under satisfactory health, technical or artistic conditions;
c) The performance of screening tests for the covid-19 virus, due to contact cases among the persons mentioned in a or among the production team mentioned in b, prevents the filming of the work under satisfactory health, technical and artistic conditions;
2° When the filming of a cinematographic or audiovisual work is abandoned due to one of the events mentioned in a and b of 1°, making it impossible to complete the work as initially planned, provided that at least 25% of the production expenses have already been incurred. This rate is reduced to 15% when the abandonment of filming concerns a work belonging to the genre of audiovisual adaptation of a live performance. The aforementioned production costs do not include overheads, contingencies, financial costs, insurance costs, advertising costs, legal costs and litigation costs;
3° When the start of filming of a cinematographic or audiovisual work is postponed due to one of the events mentioned in a, b and c of 1°.
The events mentioned in a, b and c of 1° are the subject of a certificate issued by a medical advisor working with insurance companies, which does not include any personal data. This certificate may be sent directly by the medical advisor to the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.
Aid from the compensation fund will not be granted if the interruption, postponement or abandonment of filming is the result of the unavailability of filming locations or a general ban imposed by national or local public authorities.
If filming is interrupted or postponed until 31 December 2020, aid will only be granted if filming is resumed by 31 January 2021 at the latest. If filming is interrupted or postponed after 1st January 2021, support will only be granted if filming resumes no later than 31st May 2021.
If filming is interrupted or postponed, support will only be granted if filming resumes no later than 30th April 2023.
Exceptionally, by decision of the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, the deadline for resuming filming may be postponed by two months, at the reasoned request of the production company justifying the proven impossibility of resuming filming under the artistic and technical conditions initially planned, in particular due to the prolonged unavailability of a person essential to the shoot in the case mentioned in a of 1° or due to the impossibility of using specific and irreplaceable natural or historical sets required by the script or the shots already taken.