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Showing 261270 of 27215 articles for Art. Décret 2015-981 du 31 juillet 2015

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

Article 311-49

…n is less than €25,000 and greater than or equal to €12,000. II.-A.-The coefficients applied to the duration of the works are as follows: 1° First group: 1.1; 2° Second group: the coefficient varies b…

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

Article 312-8

Creation grants are awarded for the following audiovisual projects:1° Fiction projects, either in the form of units with a planned minimum running time of 60 minutes, or in the form of series;2° Anima…

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

Article 312-13

…support for the concept and support for writing.Aid is granted as concept aid when the aim is to produce a formalised version of the project and as writing aid when the aim is to produce an elaborated…

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

Article 311-5

…c interest and that belong to one of the following genres are eligible for financial support for production and preparation:1° Fiction;2° Animation;3° Creative documentary;4° Audiovisual adaptation of…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Conditions relating to completion

Article 311-15

Production costs incurred in France and taken into account for the calculation of aid are capped at 80% of the production budget for audiovisual works.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Automatic audiovisual production account

Article 311-27

The production companies in whose name an automatic audiovisual production account is opened are, unless an exemption is granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée,…

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

Article 311-39

…sting audiovisual documents, the amounts are calculated according to, in particular, the nature and duration of these documents and the extent and duration of the related rights.

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

Article 311-55

When sums have been entered in the automatic audiovisual production account for reference works belonging to the fiction genre, this company must incur, during the year of notification, expenditure co…

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

Article 311-63

For final authorisation, the application must be submitted no later than four months after completion of the work.

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

Article 312-28

Selective financial aid is awarded for the rewriting of a new version of an audiovisual work project, known as the "reworked version", jointly to the authors and their collaborators responsible for he…

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