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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 311-44

…oportion to the amount of French hourly expenditure. This coefficient is rounded to four decimal places. III -The coefficients provided for in II are increased by 20% when works cumulatively obtain a…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Recording of sums calculated on the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-52

…lective aid from which they have benefited.However, by dispensation granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée at the joint request of the production companies made…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Investment in production

Article 311-64

The date of completion of the work is that shown on the certificate of acceptance of the work by the publisher or publishers of television services responsible for broadcasting it or by the publisher…

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

Article 312-3

Selective financial aid is awarded to authors for the conception of a formalised version and for the writing of an elaborated version of audiovisual work projects. For the application of the provision…

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

Article 312-6

The following are considered as authors' artistic experience: 1° Writing or directing a cinematographic or audiovisual work of fiction, animation or creative documentary released in cinemas or broadca…

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

Article 312-12

The decision to award a grant is taken after receiving the opinion, depending on the case, of the Commission for Aid to Innovation in Fiction or the Commission for Aid to Innovation in Animation, afte…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: List of reference works

Article 311-29

To be included on the list of reference works, audiovisual works must meet the following conditions: 1° Belong to the genres of fiction, animation, creative documentary and audiovisual adaptation of l…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: General calculation methods

Article 311-37

For each reference work, the sum representing the automatic financial assistance calculated is obtained by multiplying the value of the minute point by its weighted duration.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: General calculation methods

Article 311-38

…ed for first showing in cinemas, the other, longer, intended for first showing on a television service or for making available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service, only the differe…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Allocation of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-57

…genres:1° Fiction;2° Animation;3° Creative documentary;4° Audiovisual adaptation of a live performance.

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