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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 422-1

Selective financial aid is granted to support the creation and distribution of cinematographic, audiovisual or multimedia works dealing with the diversity of the population and equal opportunities, an…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 422-13

The following projects are eligible for writing grants:1° Project for a feature-length cinematographic work;2° Project for an audiovisual work in the genre of fiction, animation or creative documentar…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter II: Award procedure and conditions

Article 442-6

If an author is refused support, he or she may submit a new application from 1 January of the year following the year of the refusal decision.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 411-27

…teristics of the project presented so require :1° The reading committees may postpone their opinion and, where appropriate, propose to the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animé…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 411-31

The production company has two years from the date of signature of the agreement to apply for a cinematographic exhibition licence, unless an exemption is granted by the President of the Centre nation…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 411-54

…ts the right to obtain payment of the balance of the financial package.In exceptional circumstances and at the reasoned request of the production company, particularly in view of production or develop…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Award procedures and conditions

Article 411-64

The decision to award a grant is taken on the advice of the Grants Committee after the project has been completed.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 411-75

Short-length audiovisual works are made with the assistance of shooting studios and laboratories established in France, on the territory of a Member State of the European Union or, when they are made…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 412-5

…412-4; 2° Short-length audiovisual works meeting the conditi…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Award procedure and conditions

Article 412-8

For broadcasting approval and payment of direct subsidies, the delegated production company or companies and the distribution company or companies must jointly submit the application file before the f…

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