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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General conditions

Article 311-6

Audiovisual works intended to promote other audiovisual works, or cinematographic or multimedia works, or which are only incidental thereto, are not eligible for financial support for production and p…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Provisions relating to the cumulation of aid

Article 311-11

Audiovisual works must not be or have been the subject of:1° An application for production aid under these provisions and under the provisions relating to aid for the production of immersive works;2°…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Special provisions for audiovisual adaptations of live performances

Article 311-17

To be eligible for financial support, audiovisual works belonging to the genre of audiovisual adaptation of live performances must be produced by delegated production companies that:1° In the case of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 311-18

The amount of aid for the production and preparation of a given audiovisual work may not exceed 40% of the final cost of that work and, in the case of an international co-production, 40% of the French…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Miscellaneous provisions

Article 311-22

For works belonging to the genre of audiovisual adaptation of live performances:1° The award of automatic financial aid for production and preparation is subject to the provisions of Commission Regula…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Calculation methods for fiction, animation and audiovisual adaptations of live performances

Article 311-41

…311-40 does not apply for the calculation of the amount of French hourly ex…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Calculation methods for creative documentaries

Article 311-47

…311-49, depending on the hourly cash contribution of the television service…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Calculation methods for creative documentaries

Article 311-48

Only works with an hourly cash contribution of €12,000 or more will be taken into account.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-65

Advances may be granted to production companies which, either in respect of audiovisual works they have previously produced during the current year, or in respect of new audiovisual works for which th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Production advances

Article 311-67

The maximum amount of advances that may be granted to a production company during a financial year is determined on the basis of the sum entered, at the beginning of the current year, in the audiovisu…

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